You won’t believe the time we’ve had here. The people have been so incredibly kind and generous — our every need has been considered and accounted for. Just amazing.
I wrote a much more thorough post about our visit on my teaching blog here. Here are just a few highlights, along with some photos.
The people at Colegio Waldorf Guatemala absolutely blew us away with their kindness and generosity. Our every possible wish was arranged for and they made us feel so at home.
Our day consisted of a lovely tour of the school and a couple of walks around the grounds. We had a good time trying to make conversation with the students and connecting with the faculty. We also lounged around in our room quite a bit. It was nice to have a mellow day after our long travels.
If you want to know more about what the school is like, check out the blog post linked above.
I spent a good amount of that leisure time on DuoLingo. Man, I wish I had learned Spanish before coming here. People are so friendly and we do our best with the language barrier, but I know I’d have a much easier time connecting if I knew Spanish.
Leo is definitely understanding more than Alice or myself, but he’s not speaking up very much. It may be that when we are out in the world a bit more, trying to figure things out, he’ll jump in and help more, but so far we really haven’t needed him to.
Tomorrow we visit Idea Global — the early childhood program for low-income parents. We’ll get a tour and we brought some goodies for the children. After that we’re heading to Lake Atitlan. We had already hired a driver to take us to Idea Global, so I just asked if he could take us to Pana after that. It’s costing the same amount (I think we’ve basically hired the driver for the day) so I think we’re lucking out. $125 is less than I would pay for taxi and shuttle bus transport to all of these various places, since there are 3 of us, so I’ll take it.
On Friday we visit Escuela Caracol, a little Waldorf school in the small village of San Marcos near Lake Atitlan. The school’s mission is to provide Waldorf Education to Mayan children, who typically don’t go to school past 3rd grade. I know they are currently fundraising to cover their operating costs for next year — I’ll include donation links when I write a post about them.
I’ll leave you with a recess photo. Baseball with the volcano in the background. What could be better?