Jo’s Jovial Jolly Jocular Journal

I am learning to scuba dive. Whilst Australia is the best in the world for it, in Guatemala it is certainly cheaper to learn. So I am learning, and so far it is pretty fun. And in the middle of August we will be going to Belize or Honduras to dive. Fun!

It is a beautiful full moon outside and the clouds are moving with great haste across the sky. This is probably the first time I have appreciated the view outside my bedroom window.

I’ve always had a bit of a dream to work in the Postal Industry and yesterday just fueled that dream. I had to go and pick up a package from Mil and I walked into this big warehouse that reminded me of Santa’s workshop or something. There were rows of motorbikes as you walked in […]

Yesterday I was with a client and her Mum. We were walking to the parking lot to get the car but it started to rain and I had forgotten the umbrella. I went back to the office to get one and they waited for me on the street, sitting on a step. I was gone […]

Victor has started working out of town, which means he is only going to be around a little bit from now on. Anyway tonight I received a phone call from his Dad, just ringing to tell me that if I needed anything, or if I wanted to go around at any time, they wanted to […]

The other day there was a long weekend in Guatemala and on the Monday Victor and I went to visit his family’s farm in a place called Santa Rosa. The story of his Grandparents who used to own the farm is that his Grandfather was extremely poor and his Grandmother from a very rich family. […]

I have spent so much of this week sitting in traffic. On Wednesday all the power in the country went out at about 3pm. It didn`t come back until about 5:30pm. That meant that I was in my car for about 2 1/2 hours driving what usually takes about 1/2 an hour. Then again the […]