Guatemala

We've been volunteering with Safe Passage for 6 weeks now and time has been flying by! I've been having a great time with my class and I'm sad that I only have three weeks left. This past week a volunteer from New York brought down a lot of knitting needles and yarn and a lot of the girls have gotten really into it and are already talking about all the different types of things they want to make. I have to admit that I'm having a lot of fun with it also and have a hard time putting my knitting down!

Even though I haven't written an entry in a few weeks, I don't have very much to report because we don't do very much besides go to the project and sleep. Arnie left about two weeks ago and Ruben (Rachel's boyfriend) arrived around the same time so there are four of us living in the apartment now. We've all been sick off and on over the past couple weeks and a lot of the kids have been sick as well. The pollution is so bad here (it seems much worse than Mexico City) so once you get sick it is really hard to get better. One thing that has been making me feel better is going to yoga class. Today was my third class (it happens every Saturday morning) and it feels so good to relax and stretch after a long week.

In two weeks my mom is coming to Guatemala and I'm looking forward to showing her Safe Passage since she has been hearing about it for the past five years. She is going to volunteer with the babies for a week and then we are going to take a mini vacation at Lake Atitlan. After that, Leah and Rachel and I are going to head back to Mexico to visit the places we didn't get to (and spend some more time in Mexico City because we could never run out of things to do there).

I guess that's all for now...I posted my photos of the trip so far on Kodak Gallery today so if I didn't send you an invite and you would like to see them, post a message or send me an email and I will send you one.

xoxo,
Katie