The bright-eyed and ambitious group of volunteers that arrived in January 2008 are on their way out. Our replacements are already in training. As I finish up my service, I’m getting really busy (or as they would say in Q’eqchi’, my face is full), but here’s a parting shot for the Id.

Alvaro is one of my students in Samac. He and Fidelina were married a few days before Christmas. Her veil covers both of them, representing the union.

Here is the third (and probably final) installation in my series of word jumbles for The Id (a quarterly publication for PCVs in Guatemala). As for the solution, you’re on your own this time.

The bulls in Samac love each other.

These days Cobán’s El Vaquero is a family-friendly open-air restaurant with fresh paint and clean tile. But there was a time not too long ago when it was a dingy churrasquería full of smoky fluorescent light and desiccated taxidermy.
The Q10 churrasco plate (beef, tortillas, slaw, potato) attracts pitiable vagrants like Chris and Dave who can often be found debating social responsibility in the Randian tycoon class, much to the indifference of the locals (pictured).

This was my stationery during training.

Due to some clerical confusion, the power company cut the line to my house. There’s no way to know how long it will take to straighten out. Drawing in the evenings is out of the question. So here’s some past work.

When I think of drawing with markers, I think of grade-schoolers and car designers. So I when I wanted to so something with markers, I knew it needed a car. And because it’s me, I thought it needed a reptile.

If the last one gave you trouble, here’s your chance to redeem yourself. This one should be a touch easier.

This was a drawing that outgrew the page.
As always, click to enlarge.