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Tonight in Guatemala

….after 80% of the country put in its vote, my host family huddles around the television and awaits the result… My fingers and mind cross at the idea that there actually exists a chance that…

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Dizzy

I´m completely overwhelmed with the Antigua relapse. The sights, smells and sounds send me and a thousand happy memories spinning. And look what else is spinning…. For of course, the FIRST thing (as anyone would…

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alfombras

THIS is what is happening on every cobble stone calle in Antigua right now: &nbsp&nbsp &nbsp&nbsp &nbsp&nbsp All of the “Alfombras” (literally “carpets” made from colored sawdust, flowers, fruits, etc) awaiting their turn-at-treading from the…

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daze of days

Daze of Days Did you know that you have muscles in your fingers, armpits, neck and wrists? Well I do NOW…. because they, and the 200 other muscles that I have successfully managed to ignore…

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the sol times

The Sol Times News for Saturday the 9th, of March 2002 Crime Report Last night, at approximately 11:10 p.m. at the nightclub “Casbah”, located in Antigua Guatemala, a fight was reported to have broken out…

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