18.2.14

HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!!!

Last year I was handed a project called ´Journalists of the Future´ sponsored by Nuestro Diario (one of the leading newspapers here in Guatemala).  The project involved training teachers on how to teach journalism to kids in forth, fifth and sixth grade.  The final project required the teachers to produce a newspaper with their students!  Then I helped to mesh all of the newspapers together to create one newspaper that represented the state of Quetzaltenango.  Last week officials from the Ministry of Education in Guatemala City, along with officials from Nuestro Diario came to deliver 4,000 copies of the newspaper the kids made, but all fancy and digitized!  Here are some pictures from the event:

These kids graduated last year, but they were the back bone of this project!

All the bigwhigs (except the blonde on the end)

This is Rivadavia, my counterpart

Kids reading!

More kids reading!

14.2.14

Feliz Día del Cariño

Happy Valentine´s Day!
Tzalajb´il toj tq´ijil qoklen (Mam)
Jel´alaj q´ij chiwe qachalal (K´iche´)
Feliz día del cariño (Spanish)

Today we had a party at the office!  The past two weeks we´ve been doing secret valentines (imagine secret santa but way more complicated), it involved leaving your secret friend a little something everyday (which is hard when you all work in relatively close quarters).  Today all 25 of us had some fun and revealed our secret valentines and had a delicious snack to celebrate the day...

Myself, Susi, Hector and Norma!  Norma was my secret valentine :)

Check out that cake! 

It´s so nice when you like the people you work with!  Here´s to working with some AMAZING guatemalan women!

The big boss eating an incredible pache!


Well, as you can tell I was pretty bummed when the party was over and we had to get back to work...  I hope you all have/are having a wonderful day, remember to tell the people you love how much you love them!