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Community Service Trip to Parramos, Guatemala
Parramos, Guatemala
July 6-July 15
Day Eight: Friday, July 13
Parramos to Peten to Tikal, Guatemala
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1. The road from the Poseda to the school. |
2. Some children who laid in wait to have their picture taken, which usually costs us one quetzel. |
3. The ballons from yesterdays' party are recycled . . . |
4. . . . and provide a more than adequate diversion. |
5. Our first music class was the fourth grade. |
6. We gave the fourth grade teacher a gift bag, filled mostly with classroom supplies, as a gesture for his hospiality. |
7. The fifth graders were second period. |
8. Margaret gets them out of their seats and warmed up for singing. |
9. "You put your right leg in," the big hits with the students were songs with movements, the Hokey Pokey, Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes, etc. All in Spanish of course. |
10. Jumping rope was a popular recess activity, particularly with the younger children. |
11. We tried to show them double dutch, but couldn't figure how to loop the ropes. Something to practice for next year. |
12. Catherine interviews one of the mothers at the school clinic. |
13. Nutritional instructions, disguised as coloring paper, was popular with all ages. |
14. Fredy finishes up some last minute business. |
15. The kitchen at the school. |
16. Even the teachers help out with the painting. |
17. The toilets at the school. The janitor use the blue bucket to flush the comodes at the end of the day, since they were never connected to plumbing. The smell was not to be belived. |
18. The dentist prepares for an extraction, while he did use novicaine, the patient never made a sound. |
| Some portraits from the Valley of the Pines. | ||
19. Four second graders, they giggled so much I couldn't get their names straight. |
20. Tito and Israel |
21. Louisa |
22. Rigoberto |
23. Louisa and Estefani |
24. Mariella and Meydi |
25. Wilma Lettitia |
26. Maria Elena |
27. Brando |
28. Gloris Asucena and her baby brother, Juan Carlos |
29. Pilar and Katerina |
30. Marcia Celestina and Reyna Marina, twins who were brought to the clinic by their mother. Marcia is one with the experimental haircut, administered by her sister. |
31. The sixth grade class, out in the plaza, to watch the street fair, which was organized to raise money for general health care, a sort of telethon without the TV. |
32. The local ice cream vendor, the ice cream was kept in coolers on ice, but the car battery ran the local equivalent of the Mr. Softee jingle. |
33. Laura and Allison, with the Smith sisters, Louisa and Vicki, and Estefani and Maria. |
34. Laura and Allison show the girls how to boogie. |
35. Some local young ladies enjoying the street fair. |
36. The Parramos village laundrette. |
37. Diane was voted "Rose Queen" with a dozen "official" Rose Bowl roses. |
38. Jeff tries to get his hat back, but only half-heartedly. |
39. The best seat in the house. |
40. Hanging out at the street fair beats going to school anywhere in the world. |
41. Hope springs eternal. |
42. There are no vintage cars in Guatemala, if it runs, they use it. |
43. Jeff and Heather relaxing after the third class of the morning. |
44. When you run what essentially is a MASH unit, you have to improvise. Kim demonstrates her toilet paper tube extenter for the inhaler, needed to permit smaller childern to use the inhaler. |
45. Margaret and two friends. |
46. Vincente, the manager of "La Poseda de mi Abuelo." |
47. At the Guatemala City airport, Jonathan and Glenn wait for our flight to Peten to be called. |
48. Brita uses the time more productively. |
48. Parramos is in the highlands and the weather ranged in the high seventies to low eighties and was quite comfortable. When we got off the plane at Peten, the temperature was in the mid nineties and the humitiy about 150%. Weclome to the rain forest. |
50. Due to the dwindling size of the party, our bus was downsized. |
51. Aboard the bus for our drive to the Tikal National Park, which has been presevered by the Guatemalan governemt since 1955, and is also designated a UNESCO World Hertiage site. |
52. It was after dark when we arrive at Hotel Jungle Lodge in the preserve. |
53. Roughing it in the Jungle Lodge lobby. |
54. Dinner wasn't quite an open camp fire, but remarkable since there is no electricity in the preserve. All the electricity at the Hotel comes from a generator, which runs at posted times during the day, and is off from 10:30pm to 6 am. |
55. The webmaster at dinner. (photo by Kathryn Van Sickle) |
56. Steak frites, jungle style. |
57. The wine selections were modest, but adequate. |
58. Kathryn and Jeff. |
59. One of the "locals" visits Fredy's finger. |
60. All the guest cabins have protective netting, for critters. |
61. Glenn models the latest in jungle apparel. After the generator was turn off the camp really quites down, and Glenn went outside with a field recorder to record various rainforest sounds. |
62. A mattress-eye view of the protective netting. |
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