Nov 10
The Spanish lessons are going well. People cycle through this place as they do at all schools, but at a much faster clip, typically people are here for 3 weeks. It does give you a different perspective on being American. When I am at a party at home, it isn’t central in anyone’s mind that we are Americans. We are all Americans all the time. Someone from another country is a novel occurrence. Here I am one of perhaps only a handful of significant interactions that some folks with have with an American and potentially play a disproportionate role in the shaping of their view of “Americans”. I am not typically self conscious, but it does make you stop to think, and to tip well.
The Spanish lessons are going well. People cycle through this place as they do at all schools, but at a much faster clip, typically people are here for 3 weeks. It does give you a different perspective on being American. When I am at a party at home, it isn’t central in anyone’s mind that we are Americans. We are all Americans all the time. Someone from another country is a novel occurrence. Here I am one of perhaps only a handful of significant interactions that some folks with have with an American and potentially play a disproportionate role in the shaping of their view of “Americans”. I am not typically self conscious, but it does make you stop to think, and to tip well.
The US Flag on the huge kite is for the Guatemantecas living in the states and working to send home remitances. The kites are supposed to be a line to god that the Myan's got from the Chinese a hundred and some years ago.
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