Happy Valentine's!

Some of you know that I was sick a few weeks ago and had to visit the hospital.  They kept me overnight for antibiotics- my first hospital stay ever!

This is the hospital.  It is a private hospital; the public one doesn't always have medicine or beds.

View from my room.

Rosa de jamaica, soup, chicken, rice, guisquil (the green vegetable), tortillas, and cantalope.

Cave Art

The first day they had to paint with sticks and things they found outside.

They were supposed to be drawing animals... I have no explanation...

Reading Time!

Deciding which book to read first.

Working on Words

Sushi Night  
Right now in my house are a lot of Japanese students, some from Taiwan, and 1 from Korea.  They know where to go for good sushi!  I don't care for it much myself, but they let me sample their dishes and I got chicken :)  

Titanic sushi

Banana roll-  sushi with a Guatemalan touch.

Some more from school...

Practicing our Kindness verse.  Some of them need it more than others.

Valentine's Day with a photo booth!

1B boys (including some of my students from last year)

How well my kids know me :)

Ultimamente...

Some of my pictures (and some borrowed) of school, Antigua, etc. lately. 

Happy 100 Days of School!
I can't believe how fast this year is going!

Our newly-carpeted playground area

Science Fair.  Put on by the 5th - 11th graders, but my kids had a lot of fun going around and seeing all the projects!

Art tree. (Have I shared this before?)

Sunny Sunday morning with some friends and co-workers :)

Cerro Santo Domingo

Just a little car trouble...

with some people from my house

a beautiful view!

And the older kids performing "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

Oompa Loompas!

Beautiful Skies

I don't know how I missed sharing this with you.  It's from December and maybe the most amazing picture I've taken this year!  (It actually had a slight double rainbow, but this photo turned out best.)

 

A Belated Christmas and beginning of 2014

Christmas at Home

Back to Guatemala

Volcan Fuego showing off for us

My sister and I exploring Antigua

town of San Juan del Obispo, about 15 mins. from Antigua

We visited a convent (ring the doorbell for a personally guided tour by one of the sisters.)

There was a family-run chocolate shop in San Juan that we visited.  The lady gave us our own personal tour of how they make chocolate.  They have samples of the different flavors and she heated up some Rice Chocolate for us to try.   I loved the Coffee Chocolate and the roasted chocolate beans!  This was a much better stop than the expensive chocolate museum in downtown Antigua.

Copan, Honduras:  Mayan Ruins

Central Park

ball court

This Mayan site is known for its hieroglyphics and the detail that remains in the art work and writing.

 

Hieroglyphic Stairway

What the view might have looked like for the Mayans.

Climbing Volcan Pacaya

View of Volcan Agua (here you see the other side of the volcano that I normally post)

Showing her all my favorite spots!