Guatemala 10/10

Since I had spent nearly a year working as a volunteer in Guatemala, its always exciting for me to go back. Luckily for me, I get to go back a couple times a year.

I spent time this trip in meetings and evaluating some different projects in our Angels of Hope sponsored homes. All of the children are now finishing the school year and looking forward to their summer break. They start classes again in January.

I love markets. I love crazy, loud, colorful, smelly, crowded, random, bustling village markets. This has always been one of my favorite things since I started traveling. You can find anything, from buttons and telephone cords to pirated dvd's and handwoven placemats. The traditional fabrics and patterns in Guatemala are beautiful. The colors are bold and risky in their combinations. Long running cultures and ethnic groups have their own individual patterns which have been adapted and are now appearing on journal covers and picture frames to cater to the ever-growing tourist crowd.

You could easily lose me for a couple hours, if not days, in a place like this.