Mayatan Students

Here are some photos of my students at Mayatan! I would love to tell you all about them, but I think I might be breaking some law if I associate names with pictures of people who haven't necessarily given me permission to use their image online. If you want to know more, just talk to me on Skype sometime. Other than that, enjoy the pictures--my students are as fun as they look!

I am a crappy blogger.

I'm a little uncommitted to blogging, and I realize that's making the whole process more difficult for both of us. To make sure I blog something, I've decided just to document what's going on in life. And what's going on right now is...

Stinky! 6 days without running water and counting. Of course, that's an exaggeration, because the first 4 of those days we had water from our tank. That doesn't mean our toilets worked, though. We've been looking up Spanish words for "clogged" and "drano" to try and solve this problem.

Strangely, the toilets are not the stinkiest part of the house. I've ranked the stench, in order:

5. Laundry. A week's worth. I forgot to allow my socks to dry after walking around town in the rivers that form during a hard rain. They are somewhere at the bottom of the pile, and their scent has infused the whole lot.

4. Toilet #1. Toilet #1 serves purpose #1. Flush capacity rating: 4 out of ten.

3. Shoes. Used to cross rivers formed in cobblestone streets during heavy rain. I once said, Thank goodness the rain seems to wash the animal poo off of these streets. Unpleasant thought if you get too close to the washing. Sitting in a cool, dank corner of the house to dry off didn't improve my shoes' chances of surviving this one.

2. Toilet #2. I'll spare you any detailed description or overly-explicit imagery. Flush capacity rating: -1 out of ten.

1. Air Freshener. Like trying to fix a broken leg with tylenol.