Just when you think you have found your personal shangrila, it morphs....in my case, on the town side of the river there was all this digging going on. Silly me, I thought they were FIXING something or building a new bridge. But no....it turns out they just exposed the sewer pipe so the sewer could dump directly into the river, which flows from there directly into Lago Atitlan! Somehow my daily quaint pedestrian "hammock bridge" crossing has taken on a whole new character.....
Today I an debating whether to cross the lake to Santiago for an unconfirmed lunch interview with a faciitardora there, or just bag it...The interview was initially set up by someone else, and the interviewee has not returned her phone calls or mine to confirm...SOOO Guatemala! It is my last bit of research here and I really wanted to have the interview, so I will probably just go...espcially since I have nothing else on tap for today.
Tuesday I got to oparticipate in a 3 hour training for new facilitadores, (employees who are the link with the Trust Bank groups), so that was interesting for me! (Ostensibly I was there to take video for the presenter, but I ended up getting to participate, plus meet up again with some people I had met int he Quiche office on my way down here. And then i was invited to lujch with them. So that was really nice! And yesterday I was able to meet with two women from the education office here that are in charge of curriculum and instruction and planning for the Nebaj Learning Center. So I was asked to share my "report" of observations and suggestions for the center, which made my time there feel even more worthwhile. And the new executive Director here took me out to Santa Catarina for a thank you lunch yesterday, which was a real treat! He, too, wanted to hear about my experience in Nebaj. Nebaj is the farthest away and most remote of the regional offices, and most people here in this office don't spend a lot of time there, so first hand information, observations, and then, because i am a teacher, my suggestions, have been most welcome. My lunch with Christian kind of put a cap on my experience here and brought closure to thew whole thing (minus my iffy interview today!).
So I have changed my schedule and decided to come home 5 days early to have some Memorial Day weekend with my dear, supportive and sweet Don---at loooong last! He is the real hero in all this,making everything possible!! SO I am taking the shuttle to Guate tomorrow afternoon and flying home on Saturday. Hooray! I am very excited for this reunion!!!
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