I have been in Guatemala for three days now and love the place. The weather has been perfect and the food is wonderful. It has never been over seventy degrees Fahrenheit. I haven't been able to write because we could never find the Internet password and now it is only in about twenty-five square feet.
The first day we arrived we went strait to the orphanage which, as it happens, is not an orphanage at all. It is actually two places and the one that we went to first was a sort of farm/day care. I am on limited Internet so I will have to be a bit vague. When we arrived we met Jose's (the leader) father and he set us to do some work. We worked and then went to the other building where the kids are picked up by their parents and ate supper. On the way to the seminary several people had to use the bathroom. First, one of them did whatever they did in a bottle and then threw it out the window of the bus and then everyone got off of the moving bus and ran across the street to a McDonald's and then ran back across and got back on the moving bus (there were riots for lack of water so traffic was about a mile every thirty minutes [literally]).
Yesterday we went to Antigua and did some shopping and sight-seeing and I got a t-shirt that says DU YUS PIKIN GLISH? (DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?) and a nice marble chess set. Today we went to church which was two-and-a-half hours long and then walked around some with Jose and then came back o the seminary. One of the others on the mission trip yelled something that was an unintelligible mixture of "HOLY COW!" and "O MY GOSH!" before saying, calmly, "Internet."
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