Finally pictures of Sayud y Paz and bugs...

If you looked at my legs today you would probably think I had the chicken pocks (or some other disease that make little red bumps). I woke up several times last night itching like crazy and almost cried once (yes I agree it was stupid to get that upset, but I was itchy and exhausted) when I had convinced myself that I had bed bugs. To be honest I think the worst thing about bed bugs is that I would have to wash everything (did I mentioned I have to wash my clothes/bedding by hand? Stay tuned for that probably hilarious blog next week). Luckily I live with a nurse who checked the bites out this morning and assured me that they were not from bed bugs. She thinks I got chiggers when I went to the Nature Reserve yesterday. Apparently chigger bites are suppose to get much worst before they get better, so at least the next couple of days will be delightful. Another nurse at the clinic gave me some anti itch cream that I have been using religiously. Tonight we had a pizza party (who knew you could order pizza and have it delivered here in Guatemala? The hilarious part is that none of the houses here have addresses, so you just kind of explain where you live and hope they can find it) and the whole time I was putting the cream on my legs. Great manners I know.

Anyways, onto something more fun. I finally have pictures of Salud y Paz (health and peace). This mural is painted on one of the walls that surrounds the clinic and school.

So here it is. The clinic is on the right and the school is the 2 story building on the left. They look like they are connected, but are not. You have to walk outside to get from the clinic to the school

 This is Susanna Wesley Preschool. The school is made up of 3 classrooms (one on the second floor and 2 on the bottom), a spare classroom the clinic may start using when surgery teams come in, a kitchen, and a couple of bodegas (storage rooms).

 This is the prekindergarten classroom. I'll post better pictures when the classrooms get all set up for the start of the school year. There was a mission team here this week, so the classrooms are messy right now with all the projects they worked on.

 View of the playground from the 2nd floor. The building behind it has a laundry room, a couple of bodegas, and is where a Guatemalan family lives who takes care of the grounds.

 This is the clinic...

 On Mondays and Tuesdays (the 2 days a week this clinic is open) this front hallway is crowded with Guatemalans trying to get in to see the doctor.

When you walk down that hallway and get through the door you get to this reception area/waiting room.

This is the main room in the clinic. We use this room for office area (mine is the one with the desktop computer on it), lunch room, post op patient recovery area (there are hospital beds in the corner), and just overall storage. We sit at this table a lot and have meetings with the teachers getting everything ready for school to start.

 This is the kitchen off of the main room I just showed you (it is to the left when you look at the picture). There is a cook that cooks for the staff on Mondays and Tuesdays. The other days I will have to bring my lunch.

 One of the surgery rooms. There are 2.

 Dentist office...

Here is a picture of Janet and I with the teachers in the school. When I first met them I was surprised by how young they are (I think they are all around 21). They are great and I am looking forward to being able to talk to them more than the simple conversations we are having now.

 This morning we had a party for the school children for the beginning of the school year. The students came with their parents and sometimes their brothers and sisters. It was amazing to see all the kids. They are all ridiculously adorable and are so loving right off the bat. I was just standing there while they are doing some announcements and all of a sudden I had 2 little kids holding my hands. Everything that was said had to be translated into several different languages... English, Spanish, and 2 different Mayan languages (it was probably like playing telephone, so who knows if anything was correct by the time it got back to English). Several of the parents talked about how grateful they were for the school and how it was changing the lives of their children. We sang songs with the kids and played several games... amazing.

 This little boy was precious. Here the Mayan women carry their babies wrapped in fabric on their backs or chests. This little dude just hung out (get it???) through out the party.

 This is the road that you turn on to pull up to Salud y Paz. On one side there is a corn field and on the other an apple orchard.

 And lastly, this is my favorite picture of the day. When the kids started arriving I walked up to one little girl and asked her what her name was and she said Kelly. :) She is in first grade and is precious. She was my buddy throughout the party and will probably be a favorite. I mean she does have a great name.

Cooking, Reserva Natural Atitlan, and MONKEYS!

I realized that back home I hardly ever did a lot of cooking from scratch. I did a lot of reheating and adding packaged things together to make a meal. Well here in Guatemala you have to make everything from scratch, so I've been cooking a lot since coming here. Today I made chicken and veggie soup. I decided to document it to share mainly because I wanted my mom to know I made soup from scratch. :) Go ahead and laugh at me.

 I chopped all this up (minus the chicken which went in whole) and cooked it for about an hour. Then I picked the chicken off the bone and added the tomatoes and it was done. Super easy, but still it was the first time I had made soup from scratch.

After lunch I went to Spanish school. Gladys and I had a lesson for an hour then at 2:00 we walked to the Nature Reserve that is half way between Pana and San Jorge (where we went to the cave yesterday). It took about 30 minutes to get to the Reserve from town. Walking through the Reserve was beautiful. You can choose different paths to walk down which each leads to another amazing location. Know that if it didn't take about 8 minutes to upload each picture on here you would have so many more to look through. About every 20 feet we walked over bridges like this one (which were always moving and squeaking way more that I would like). I found the entire place beautiful and it is at the top of the list for places I need to take people to when they come to visit.

 Amazing waterfall about half way through the walk. I took several pictures of it, but most came out a little blurry because I was standing on one of those bridges that kept moving.

 Is it a common known fact that coffee grows on trees? Maybe it was just that I've never really thought about it before, but I had no idea. While we were walking through the Reserve we kept seeing people picking these berries to harvest. I learned that they pick the berries then pull out the seeds inside to dry.

I then noticed a lot of seeds on the ground and was told that this is how they dry them out. They leave them outside on the ground under the sun and wait for them to turn brown. Again maybe this isn't fascinating to anyone else, but I had no idea this was how you make coffee.

 Now get excited because it's time for MONKEYS!!!!!!!!!!!! When we first went down the path to the monkeys we didn't see any. I had bought some bananas to feed the monkeys and was extremely upset that I wasn't going to get to see them (I mean coffee and waterfalls are cool, but come on they are no monkeys). However, when we were walking back through there were so many around. They were swinging from the trees and came closer when we tossed bananas to them. I took about 20 pictures of different ones, but this one was my favorite. I watched him/her swing all over the place (just like Tarzan) and when we were about to leave it came about 10 feet from us and just hung from this tree perfectly still. It was like it wanted to get it's picture taken.

 Here was another monkey that ate most of the bananas I threw to the monkeys. I laughed so hard everytime it ate a piece because it looked exactly like a human eating a banana. He/She would pick up the banana, dust it off since it had landed on the ground, peel it, then sit cross legged while eating it and looking around. It was incredibly cute and hilarious to watch.

Again I am so blessed to have Gladys as a teacher/friend. The other students and their teachers didn't even walk together and hardly ever talked. Gladys and I stuck together and hiked through the whole Reserve laughing and telling jokes. I am also blessed that she is teaching me so much about Guatemala and the culture here. She often pulls me aside and explains to me what is going on around us. Such an amazing start to a friendship.

 I have no idea what the name of this flower is in English, but in Spanish it is called ave de paraiso. They are in bloom everywhere here and are so beautiful. I think after work tomorrow I may walk to the market and buy some for the house.

 Lastly, be impressed I walked through these swing thingys (yes I do think that is the technical name) and didn't break a leg or fall onto the rocks below.

Tomorrow I am going up to Salud y Paz and I am so excited! We are having a party in the morning for the school kids, so the mission team that is here this week can meet the kids. It will be the first time I meet them also and I can't wait. I have been getting impatient for the school year to start because I feel like right now I am just playing tourist and I didn't come here to just be on a vacation. I know that may sound weird because don't get me wrong I am loving doing all these activities, but I am eager to start being at the school everyday. Hopefully I can take better pictures of the clinic and school tomorrow to share.

Spanish school, Hike to San Jorge, and a Mayan cave...

I love Spanish school (yes I am just as shocked as you are that I would ever write that sentence), but I really do for 2 reasons. The first reason is Gladys. She is my teacher and is simply amazing. I am just as close to her as I am to anyone else down here if not closer because when we have our lessons it is just the 2 of us talking for 4 hours at a time. I have had 6 lessons so far, so we have spent 24 hours sitting together and talking since I've been here. The lessons are really more like having a coffee date with a friend than actual class. She teaches me words and then we practice them through questions and answers which just leads to us talking about our lives and me telling her about Texas and her teaching me about Guatemala. The thing I like most about Gladys is her sense of humor. She has a very similar one to mine which results in us spending most of the 4 hours a day laughing and joking around. It is becoming a beautiful friendship that I am blessed to have.

The second reason why I love going to Spanish school is that some afternoons they have activities for the students for great prices. I have been on a couple of the activities, and am always amazed at how cheap it is. Last week I visited 2 other villages, went to several churches, and visited a pottery factory all for $2.20. This afternoon we went to San Jorge to go on a hike and visit a Mayan ritual cave and it only cost me $2. Tomorrow we are going to a Nature Reserve (where they have monkeys!!!!!!!!) and it is only costing $5.80. I love that the school offers these trips because they are teaching me so much about the area of Guatemala that I'm living in. Not to mention all the beautiful photography opportunities I am most grateful for.

So after an hour of Spanish lessons Gladys, a few other students and their teachers, and I walked across town to catch a chicken bus (it's actually what it's called) to San Jorge which the village to the right of Pana on the lake. The chicken bus was crazy packed when we got on it, and I sat there amazed when about 40 other people got on after us. After about 15 minutes we got off and started our hike up the mountain. We hiked for about 25 minutes to get to the cave. The path we went on (if you can even call it that) was right on the cliff overlooking the lake. I basically hugged the mountain and prayed the entire hike. At one point one of the other students slipped a little and I freaked out. If you've ever spent more than 2 minutes with me you know how big of a klutz I am and how much I fall down. Thankfully we finally made it to the cave and it was well worth it.

It was impossible to get the entire opening of the cave into one picture, because the trail wasn't that far away from it, but you can sort of tell from these how big it was.

When we walked into the cave there was a Sacerdote (person who does the rituals) speaking in Kaqchikel (Mayan language for this village) and lighting candles. Gladys taught me what each candle meant and why it was important the order he lit them in.

The inside of the cave was beautiful. When you touched the ceiling of the cave sut would come off in your hand. I don't know if that is just what the layers on the ceiling is made of, or it there is just so much sut because of all the flames they have in the cave. At almost every ritual some kind of animal (usually a chicken/bird) is sacrificed. There were several different spots that were still smoking from the last sacrifice. When I was in Chichicastenago in August with the mission trip we walked through a cemetery and I saw a couple of chickens being sacrificed. Surprisingly enough I wasn't grossed out like I thought I would be, but rather I thought it was beautiful to watch the ritual. I got the same feeling today in the cave. I have always been fascinated by other religions, and loved being able to witness their sacred rituals first hand. However, of course I do wish the poor chickens could just be there to watch the ritual with me and not play the starring role.

 After we hiked back up to the road we walked over to Gladys' house, so I could meet her sons. Gladys and her husband both work at the Spanish school in Pana, and their 2 boys are adorable. They came on the second part of the hike with us. I started to walk behind Gladys so I could wave and make the baby smile. From her house it took us about 20 minutes to get to the very top of the mountain. The paths were just as scary as before, so Gladys stayed behind with her sons and didn't go to the very top with us.

 The last 5 minutes of the hike was just climbing up lots of boulders like this one. Yes I did start praying again and when it was time to come down I scooted down on my butt to you know keep from falling off the mountain. I tried to take a picture of the cliff below me, but it didn't come across as steep or terrifying as it looked while up there.

 When I made it to the top I was a little disappointed by how foggy it was, so I couldn't see the volcanoes on the other side of the lake. I took several pictures of the view that are not really worth sharing, which is sad but I did get a picture of me standing on top of a VERY tall mountain! If you could zoom out in the picture below you would see on the right of me the boulders from the picture above and on the right a drop off of about 400 feet. The rock I was standing on was about 2 feet wide, so after I took my picture I then immediately sat down as to not fall off the mountain. :)

 After we got back down the mountain to Gladys' house she ran inside to drop off the baby and I walked over to this little fruit stand these kids were having. I couldn't buy the fruit (because it would make me sick if I ate fruit here that I didn't disinfect), but I had enough conversation skills to talk to them. Also I took their picture and showed them on the camera. That is always a big crown pleaser with kids here.

Check back tomorrow for a blog all about monkeys. :)

Just a beautiful day...

Today was one of the most beautiful and peaceful days I've had in a long time. I didn't go up to the village today to work, so I decided instead of sleeping in and wasting such a beautiful day I would walk to the lake. It is about a 2 mile walk from my apartment to the lake. I walked through town and stopped along the way at a bakery to grab breakfast and coffee. Even though I know I have a very LONG way to come on my Spanish I've realized that after only 4 lessons I've learned enough to at least get by when buying things and asking simple questions. To them it probably sounds like a 5 year old is speaking, but at least they can understand what I'm trying to say.

 When I finally made it to the lake I was astonished by how beautiful it was. I look at it everyday and saw it from the hilltop a few days ago, but standing level with it was breathtaking. There is a little road that goes along the lake and ends at an harbor. I found what used to be a stone staircase into the lake which was destroyed by a tree that fell down, and sat there for hours drinking my coffee, people watching, boat and duck watching, and going over some Spanish notecards (my goal is to at least sound like a 7 year old when I leave). I've decided this is going to be my special Guatemala place (see picture of it below). I foresee myself coming here when I need to feel calm and peaceful, or maybe when I just want to look at something beautiful.

I am not going up to the village again until Friday (because I'm going to Spanish school in the afternoons this week), so I think I'll go back to my secret place again tomorrow morning. I think it will be the perfect study/devotional/picture taking/listening to music and Guatemalan watching location.

On a side note I went up to the school yesterday and met the rest of the staff at the school and clinic. It was the first day the teachers were back and that the clinic was open since Christmas. It was amazing being introduced to everyone and getting hugs and kisses for just being there. It seams like such a close family community and I'm grateful to be a part of it. I was going to post some pictures, but thought I would wait until everything was set up and ready for the school year. That way you can see how cute all the classrooms are. I was also going to blog about it last night, but didn't feel well. I think I got sick from the change in altitude. Pana is around 3,000 and Salud y Paz is around 7,000. It takes 45 minutes to drive the very windy and bumpy road up the the village. I'll be better prepared next time I go with lots of water and advil, but I'm hoping I'll get used to it.  I wanted to wait to blog about how it's set up there until I get some descent pictures to show.

Anyways, when I left the lake I walked back to the part of town that I knew and grabbed lunch at a little cafe where I could sit outside and watch the people passing by. There was a girl sitting at the table right next to me who was waiting for a shuttle to go to Antigua. We started talking about Antigua and why we were both in Guatemala. I love how many missionaries/volunteers/random people just there to hang out there are around town.

After lunch I stopped at the coffee shop to study for a little over an hour before I went to Spanish school. The coffee shop is owned by Mike and his wife (can't remember her name) who have been living and raising their kids in Pana for 15 years. I was invited last Saturday to a knitting (no I don't know how to knitt) club in their apartment upstairs. They seam like a great couple to know and I think like my spot at the lake I'll be going to this coffee shop a lot on my days off.

I am loving my time in Guatemala so far. Right now I feel like I am just a tourist playing around town and going to Spanish school everyday. I am really looking forward to the school year starting in a couple of weeks and the start of me going up to the clinic/school 4 (usually) days a week. I can't wait to be with the kids everyday and hopefully be of help at the school. Janet wants me to have a couple of weeks of Spanish lessons before I start going up a lot, so I'll be more helpful once I'm there (you know it may be good to be able to talk to the kids/teachers/anyone). However, until that starts I guess I'll just have to settle for spending my days exploring this new town of mine.

And as if today wasn't perfect enough I got a Facetime (think skype for IPhones and IPods) from everyone I love and miss at The Refuge. I had been thinking all day about missing Fat Tuesday tonight and it made me cry (shocker) that they called to say they missed me being there also. If any of you read this know how much I love you.

Today was a beautiful day. I pray tomorrow will be just as amazing.

Spanish school and Exporing

 I had my first Spanish lesson yesterday morning. I went from 8 to 12 with one 15 minute break at 10. My tutor was a lady named Gladys and she was great. She had a great sense of humor, so we were able to laugh mainly at how bad at Spanish I was. At the school the students sit a tables with their teacher in this beautiful court yard. I really think that if Katy/Stratford had taught me one on one in a beautiful court yard with fruit trees, flowers, and parrots I would have been a straight A student. :) This morning I had another 4 hour lesson. I am impressed with how much is coming back from high school, but it is still difficult. I have never been good at learning languages, so I know this is going to be a challenge.

Anyways, after Spanish school yesterday Janet and I walked to the market. Think of our farmer's market in Houston then imagine if it was 10 times bigger. Every time I thought we were towards the end of the market Janet would lead me into another massive room filled with different vendors. I bought a lot of fruits and vegetables that I then had to take home and disinfect. I bought some organic cleaner and soaked everything in water for about 15 minutes. Hopefully it did the trip. I haven't been sick yet, so at least I'm having a good start.

 In the market there were about 20 of these meat stands all along the walls. This is just one of the reasons why I don't like a lot of meat... gross.

 Yesterday afternoon I went with a couple of other Spanish students (one who refused to speak English and one who was from Germany and didn't know English, so I pretty much just spoke broken Spanish to the tuk tuk driver) went to a couple of other towns on the lake near Pana. On the drive we pulled over a few times to take pictures. The view is breathtaking. There are 3 volcanoes around the lake which is probably one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen.

 This is the town of Santa Catarina Palopo which is the town closest to Pana. We stopped here and went into one of the churches.

 The next town we came to was San Antoinio Palopo (yes I pronounce it wrong because I always say it like our San Antonio in Texas). This town is known for it's pottery and weaving. We went to the local pottery factory where every thing is handmade. I bought a pretty cross and would have bought more, but I figured I've only been here for 3 days and would probably find lots of stuff I would want to buy. That and I was running out of money because the atm hasn't worked since I got here.

We visited a couple of churches while in San Antoinio Palopo and they both had a big Christmas tree and nativity scene in front. In all of the nativities the baby Jesus were actually size baby dolls while everything else was miniature in comparison. Found it interesting.

 Lastly on our trip we stopped at some stores where they sell their weaving that they are known for. I know this is a bad picture, but you can still see how they make these weavings. When you walk down the streets there are dozens of children and women trying to sell you things. I bought one when I was at the market in Chichi this Summer. They are beautiful, but it gets old when you are trying to just walk around and you are constantly harassed to buy something.

Today was a great days also. After Spanish school this morning I went with Janet and Wayne to Salud y Paz to make a list of everything we want to construction mission team that gets here Monday to do to get the school ready to open in 2 weeks. I can't wait for the school year to start and to be working with the kids everyday. Tonight I had dinner with Janet, Wayne, and another married couple who work in the clinic. I am realizing quickly how blessed I am to be working with these amazing people.

Ok... I'm exhausted and have a lot of Spanish homework to do before I can go to bed. If you've been wondering why this blog may not be up to its charming self it's because I'm about to fall asleep while typing. Night blog peeps.

I now live in Guatemala... (mom don't cry).

I'm finally here...

After flying into Guatemala City and making the trip to Panajachel I finally got to my house last night. I love it. Everything about it. My roommate is hosting a mission trip this week, so I have the place to myself to get all set up and settled in. When Janet and Wayne dropped me off at my house yesterday I thought I would just fall asleep, but I ended up staying up late unpacking and organizing my room. I got almost everything done last night before going to bed. I also met my upstairs neighbors. A retired couple from Maine live in the apartment above me and have been here for 8 years. They spend 4 months out of the year here then go back to Maine. They couldn't be nicer. I wasn't scared at all last night staying by myself because I knew they were there.

The house is AMAZING!! I'll post the pictures below, but they don't even come close to capturing how beautiful it is here. This morning when I woke up I walked around our yard and took lots of pictures. There is a little path that goes up the hill behind our house and in front there are 2 other houses (one is for rent and the other is where Roberto (the grounds keeper) and his family live). There are orange trees all over the yard and lots of beautiful plants. About 2 miles down the road from my house is the lake and across the lake you can see one of the volcanoes (I think there are 3 around the lake). I spent about an hour sitting outside doing my daily devotional. So peaceful.

 This is the view from the front porch.

Here are some pictures (as if the first ones were not enough to prove how beautiful it is here) of inside the house.

 Living room.

 Kitchen.

 My room... I love it!

 I went to the market today and bought this quilt. It is made from pieces of traditional Mayan clothing.

 My closet and picture wall. I wanted to bring a lot of pictures of everyone I love to make me smile.

 Shelving/desk area.

I feel like after living here for the Spring I'm going to get used to not having a lot of stuff around. I just did a major clean out of my apartment before moving, but I imagine I'll do a bigger one once I get home.

Anyways, this morning Janet came and picked me up and took me over to the Spanish school to register. I signed up to go to class the next 3 days from 8 to 12. I can't imagine that will be a lot of fun, but hopefully I'll pick it up quickly. I'll go most of next week also then when I have to start going to work I'll do Spanish school just a couple of days a week or get a tutor. After we left the school we walked all around the town. Janet showed me all the grocery stores I will shop at and we went on the search for hangers, baskets for the bathroom, and a quilt. Next we got a cell phone for me to use while I'm down here then met up with Wayne to eat lunch. We sat outside at this little cafe called The Patio. While we were eating people would come up to us asking us to buy something from them. It reminded me of the market when I was in Chichicastenago in August. You just have to learn to ignore them.

While we were walking around town I was so surprised by how many people were walking around from the United States or Europe. Most of the people I saw looked either my age or retired. Janet kept running into people she knew. There seams to be a good community of tourist who live here. Apparently this town has 18,000 living in it and they say 1 out of 8 people are not from Guatemala.

After lunch we went grocery shopping. There are 4 different stores then a farmers type market. We are going to the market tomorrow, so today we just went to the stores. I was so shocked by what was in the stores. When I was in Chichicastenago we went to the grocery store once and there was hardly anything I recognized. Here all the stores are well kept and stocked with food that looks familiar (yet in Spanish). Janet explained that when you go shopping you go to all 4 because you know what to get from each one. Different things are better at one store or you can only find certain things at one, so you have to go to all 4 to complete your list. At one store I bought some tofu (who knew they would have tofu in Guatemala??) and another store we shopped at had all sorts of fancy stuff. On one shelf they had truffle oil and avocado oil. Janet said that if you see something you want you need to go ahead and buy it because who knows when they will have it again. Pana has one big road that most of the shops are on, so all the stores are in walking distance of each other and our houses.

When I got back to the house I finished setting up my magic jack. With it I can call home for free. If you want to call me the number is 281 670 7821. If I'm not home or our internet isn't working you can just leave a message. Also if you have an IPhone or IPod Touch you can use heytell or facetime to call me at kecragg@gmail.com.

Tomorrow morning David (one of the neighbors from Maine) is going to walk me to Spanish school, so I'll learn how to get there. Then when I'm done Janet is going to pick me up and we are going to the market to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. I think in the afternoon we are going to start working on planning for the school year to start. A mission team is coming this weekend and they will be at the school helping us get everything ready for the following week.

So far I love everything. I feel settled in the house and have amazing people around me. Janet and Wayne are so nice and have been talking me through everything. I can't imagine being in a better situation down here. I guess I made me right decision. :)

Last day in Houston...

So the count down is on... Tomorrow morning we are leaving around 7:00 am to head to the airport for me to catch my 9:30 flight to Guatemala City. I am being met at the airport by Janet and Wayne who will then travel with me to Pana. Janet and I have sent many emails back and forth coming up with every scenario that could happen... What if I miss my flight? What if they miss their flight? What if the flights are delayed? What if they just never show up? I know who to call if that happens and where to go. Hopefully I won't need any of our backup plans, but since I won't have a phone or internet access at the airport it is good to know what to do in case anything happens.

Tonight we ate dinner at my parents house and had all the family come over to say goodbye. I was good until I had to say bye to my grandfather. I live in his garage apartment and see him everyday. I can't imagine not being able to just walk through the backdoor into the house to give him a hug everyday. Just one of the many things I'm going to miss very much.

Tomorrow morning my dad is leaving to go on our college mission trip, so it's up to my mom and brother to take me to the airport. I know I am going to cry again in the morning saying bye to the 3 of them, but that once I get inside the airport I'll be ok. I remember when my parents dropped me off at college I cried and they were worried about leaving me. Then when they were about 20 minutes down the road they called to check on me and I told them I couldn't talk because I was hanging out with some friends I had just met. I've learned throughout the years that this is how I work. I get really upset at first then I snap out of it when I realize I'll be ok and then I'm fine.

Hopefully I come to that realization before I get on the plane tomorrow or I'll be that idiot crying in first class (yes I am flying first class because it was the only seat left on the plane when my uncle booked my ticket... deal).

Ok... I'm off to do some last minute packing then to head to bed. Be praying that everything works out tomorrow and that I somehow make it to my house in Pana without much hassle. I'll update when I get to Guatemala as soon as I get the internet all set up.