Jo’s Jovial Jolly Jocular Journal

I was in my room reading and I heard something downstairs that sounded like Australian accents. Only having heard Aussie accents via Skype and on 5 minutes of McLeods Daughters that I managed to catch the end of one day, I got quite excited and ran down the stairs. Miriam had borrowed a DVD of […]

I have been catching buses a bit lately and I thoroughly enjoy the experience. The buses from San Ángel where I live are such old vans that I am surprised they are still going. Yesterday one of the buses that we were catching up the hill was going so slowly that the driver was leisurely […]

Guatemala City is not the most attractive city in the world. There’s not that much to do here. Tourists mostly don’t even stop here, they just continue straight on to the old capital Antigua which is about an hour down the road from here. Here is full of cars and bus fumes and dirt. The […]

Yesterday a monk rung me to wish me a Happy International Women’s Day.
We went to a wedding but it was so cold that we ate the food and left. We had spent more time getting ready and buying the present on the way than at the actual wedding.
We got ready at la abuelita’s house. She […]

Today they closed the road on which I work. They will be closing roads around us about 5 times before Easter. When we went out after work there were all these people making artworks on the ground with different coloured woodchips, grass and flowers. They will be doing this all over the city until Easter […]