Some actual plans for more than one or two days in advance!
Greg Malivuk
checked at all this week), because the first computer I used this
afternoon seems to have deleted all of mine. (More likely, it just
changed some tag to make my card look like it has no pictures on it.
I'll take it to a good camera or computer place as soon as I can find
one.) Mostly what I lost were more scenery pictures, a few of some
kids playing on a VW Bug, and some from an excursion today arranged
through the school.
We did some hill-to-hill ziplines and then took various interesting
modes of transportaion back to San Pedro. (By "interesting" I mean
"overcrowded and dangerous". The first was a van that had something
like 25 people packed into it, the second was the back of a pickup
truck.) I'm hoping to replace most of the ones I took today with
similar pictures some of the other people on the trip took, so I
suppose it's not too huge a loss.
I finished my week of Spanish classes and decided not to take another
week. Instead, I think I'm going to go back to San Cristóbal (in
Mexico) this week and start looking for a job there. I kind of feel
like maybe starting to be a little bit "productive" with my life. I
never thought I'd say such a thing, but having held no job for over a
year, or done anything other than my class in Mexico and the one I
just took here that even required me to get up at a particular hour
for any length of time, I think perhaps I'm ready for a bit of a
change. :-)
I'm not exactly sure about the specifics of getting back to SC, but
I'm relatively sure I'm going to take a bus on Monday from here to
Xela, and then either go by bus or shuttle from there back to Mexico
on Tuesday or Wednesday. (I had been thinking of a volcano hike or
something here, but as exhausted as I was after a bit of uphill
walking during the excursion today, I think maybe I'm too out of
hiking practice for something that ambitious. So the only things left
I "have" to do here are swimming a bit and kayaking a bit on the lake
I've been right next to for the past week. I can and probably will do
both of those things tomorrow, along with a fair deal of sitting
around doing nothing.)
I know this has been a pretty long update, but just think: once I get
a job, I won't be travelling any more, so I won't have much reason to
send emails to this list very regularly. So I'm sure you can put up
with this and maybe one more longish email before they dry up.
-greg
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