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Me Cuesta | 75 Palabras in Guatemala

By First Person Foreign on April 5, 2017

November 24, 2016: We stood in a circle on the grass as our boss passed out classic manila folders.
We were celebrating Thanksgiving Day in the cocoon of the well-manicured office.
Like it was a medical chart, a nominal first aid certificate or another copy of your resume printed off last-minute for…

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Aguacate | 75 Palabras in Guatemala

By First Person Foreign on March 9, 2017

So many beautiful things happened yesterday. And then something hit my back as I walked home from the outskirts. And I saw red.
The day started with a 6:40 alarm (early by my standard).
I approached the starting and finish line of the race with my bag of mosh, grabbed a…

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Doblar Rodillas | 75 Palabras in Guatemala

By First Person Foreign on February 19, 2017

I’d never heard the phrase until I was in a conversation I stumbled into the first week of January.
And like with so many phrases that fly past me like patterned barriletes I can’t remember, it joined the minimal ranks of words I needed to look up later. It means…

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