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Hi-Lo 11: Surprises and Stings

By on January 23, 2019

It was sunny today in Sololá. I woke up and Abuelita was already weaving purple thread accompanied by Meesh (our cat. His name is Heróe but we all just call him Meesh, which is cat in K’iche’). She laughed at me as I walked by to fill up my…


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Hi-Lo 5: Pascuas

By on December 22, 2018

This morning I woke up, for some reason, at 8. 

In Guatemala there is a thing called Madrugada. It means the hour you wake up in the morning. We don’t have a word for this in the US because everyone wakes up at different times but culturally, Guatemala wakes up…

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All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.