Today was my last day of class. Murray thinks she hasn’t taught me anything since we met, but I did learn the importance of note writing from her. The difference today was I could give my thank you note to my profesora as my free writing homework assignment. I gave her a thousand quetzals ($125) which is only $40 a week tip for working with me 30 hours a week. When you consider what you give the bellman for taking 5 minutes to schlep your bag it still wasn’t much. But here a tip goes a long way for the locals.
She said she used to get tips commonly when she was younger but not so much now that she is in her 40s with teenagers. I suppose the same invisibility of middle aged women that Murray complains about exists in Guatemala. At that age perhaps a person isn’t interested in using their special power to sneak into the locker room of the opposite gender. In which case it isn’t much of a superpower.
Notes are nice because you can pretty easily make someone’s day with a note, but a decent tip here can make someone’s month. Of course Murray and her sister just finished a hundred or so notes after her mom’s funeral. I am not in that league. I think I wrote about having to track who brought what while the two of them were out with funeral errands. I now understand the method to the madness was for better note writing ability. I like to be kind, but I don’t want to get carried away. Although it does seem that notes are becoming a thing of the past. For me paper notes and emails are fairly equivalent. Generally I use notes for people over 50.
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