The five of us piled into the tatty jeep with our drenched rucksacks piled on top of us and we sat soaked to the bone all the way to the hostel. We had turned up at one of the more common hostels in the area only to find out that they had overbooked, and after [...]
The farther I got from Pasac and the closer I came to Antigua and the City, the grander the three volcanoes started to appear in a hazy silhouette of blackened clouds threatening rain. I continued to feel bare, alienated, and out of place as salesmen hopped on the bus peddling parasite medicine, mangos, and God [...]
Le and I volunteer for Roots and Wings International (RWI). And we happen to be classmates in our Spanish 3 class too! We had an opportunity to do an individual oral presentation last night in class to demonstrate our supreme fluency in the usage of subjunctives and ability to pronounce Spanish like Spanish. Not surprisingly, [...]
On April 28th, we launched our Spanish-language website. The new website caters to our growing Spanish-speaking audiences. We hope that with the launch of this new site, we will reach out to companies who communicate primarily in Spanish and who may have an interest in supporting an organization like Roots and Wings International, whose goals [...]
Fíjese que… When you live in Guatemala, this is a phrase you will hear all the time. Fijarse literally translated means: to take notice, to pay attention. This is the literal translation but there is so much more that comes along with the phrase. The way things happen in Guatemala is different from that of [...]
