with my time here coming to a close, i thought it'd be a good idea to take stock of things i've done/learned, and then marginalize those accomplishments with a list of things i didn't do/learn. dice...
did
1. learn a bunch o' spanish
2. scale an active/lava spewing volcano
3. make some great purchases at bargaintown in chichi
4. learn to pilot a motorcycle
5. see a man shoot a gun at another man (oh i never wrote about that)
6. meet great folks, make friends, drink pineapple soda
7. learn about the human culture in contrast (central american & beyond)
8. watch a local soccer match...picked up a few spanish explecatives
9. learn how to do that pen spinning thing really well!
didn't
1. catch any kind of parasite or flesh eating disease
2. fall in love, some folks prognosticated that one
3. eat tortuga, about to have turtle soup, but the kids adopted it instead
4. most regretably, see a real live cockfight, there were chances
5. much less regretably, learn the salsa
6. burn through all that much dough
3 comments:
Nicely done my friend. Your time in Guatemala seemed to be well spent. The document of your adventure will, no doubt, leave quite an impression on all would be travelers and students to the beautiful, colorful land and people that Antigua and Guatemala encompasses.
all-in-all, great blog. I, for one, would have liked to see the zanman play more jai alai being in S. American and all...
hey alex! i just got your blogspotadress from rob (for the roomiepicture) and obviously i had to leave a message.. really nice to read all the stuff, brings back good memories. i'm kind of dissapointed reading about you failing to see a cockfight though, especially when you dreamed that very interesting dream about it. but still, the mentioning of the shooting looks impressive, that was one of my goals as well, but like you with the cockfight i failed.so, gotta go back sometime to try another time maybe:) i hope everything is well and let me know if you make it to europe, amsterdam should be one of the places to go right? greets, anneke
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