• Evening walks for tea de manzanilla (chamomile) with housemate Kim.
• Gave a tour of our wheelchair workshop, while cutest kid ever was getting fit for a chair from us. I wish I could say we planned it that way.
• Transitions threw a fiesta for our Special Education class – hot as heck on the basketball court, but the pizza, cake, and water balloons helped us through the festivities.
• Convinced our visiting consultant, PJ, to play wheelchair basketball with us on Friday afternoon.
• PJ and his boss, treated us to the nicest dinner e v e r that night. Transitions 17 year-old adopted double arm amputee, Nacho, is so excited he orders pretty much everything on the menu.
• Transitions Founder, John Bell, takes myself and the two consultants on the “real Guatemala tour,” that the consultants had been begging him for. We rode in the back of a pick-up (along with the various people John offered rides to on the side of the road) all through the Antigua area visiting Transitions families.
• After our impressive “real” tour, PJ made dinner for everyone who lives in the Transitions house. Flan never fails to bring people together.
• Two of my friends from Spanish class came along with us to our basketball game in Guatemala City on Sunday. The Transitions guys very much enjoyed the new female company. Lots of jokes were had.
• Walking home Sunday, I get caught in church procession: 100 people, lots of firecrackers, and one huge baby Jesus figure.
• Executive Director, Alex, took me away from work to a nearby coffee plantation where we bought bags of “thanks for your big donation” coffee.
• Transitions has been learning/practicing a choreographed dance to participate in a flash mob in Antigua's parque central! What is a flash mob you ask? Although our dance is a tad more latin, this is an amazing example of a flash mob from Belgium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k&feature=fvst
• My Spanish teacher takes me to the market to teach me valuable bargaining vocabulary.
• Halloween party at my Spanish school: free rum and coke starting at 4:30pm only hurt my country’s dance reputation.
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hahahahaha.
ReplyDeletei can just picture Nacho trying to get everything on the menu.
these are some great memories [:
i hate that i only got to help out with Transitions one time. when/if i come back to antigua, i'm definitely going to be helping out with you guys, if you can use me. you guys have got such a great program, with a great group of people.