Yesterday's arrival was full of fanfare, we ran into about half of the As Green As It Gets producers. Some remembered us, some didn't. We managed to stay up relatively late last night given that neither Oriana nor I had slept the night before we left.
We had dinner at this really cute comedor (a restaurant in someone's house) where you only had one choice. Ours was a chile relleno with beans, cheese, and homemade tortillas. I could get used to this.
Sleeping here is slightly difficult. There's lots of new noises: roosters, cats on the roof, really loud rain, fierce crickets, and kids playing next door. Also there's the problem of wiggling out of my borrowed cocoon-like sleeping bag in the middle of the night to pee in the outdoor bathroom. In case you are interested, you only flush your business--not the paper, because sewage systems here get clogged very easily.
So, it's the end of Day Two of my summer adventure in Guatemala. Oriana and I spent most of today looking for apartments for our stint in this fine country. It's amazing that we'll each be paying about $130 a month on a two bedroom house with everything we need. Our pick is one that is behind an internet cafe that is about a block from the As Green As It Gets office in San Miguel Escobar. One of the coffee farmers, Filiberto, was our broker on this deal--and the house we'll rent is significantly nicer than his place.
After seeing all of the apartments, Oriana and I had fun buying food to cook for dinner at La Bodegona (a grocery store in Antigua). Most of today we were slightly disoriented and have yet to pick up on the directional nuances we'll need to survive here. Our groceries in hand, we hopped in a tuk-tuk for the ride back to San Miguel. A tuk-tuk is a small three-wheeled car with no discernible doors. Imagine a motorized tricycle, where the driver is in the front and we were in the back looking for oh-shit handles to hold on to for the ride.
When we got back we cooked dinner and asked Filiberto, the coffee farmer, to eat with us. A good time was had by all. We spent much of the dinner conversation yelling over the incredible noise that rain on tin roofs produces.
We're being trained on the database and other administrivia tomorrow for our day at the office. There is also talk of us staffing games & recreational activities for local kids once a week. Oriana and I are both pretty excited about the idea. Hopefully, tomorrow we'll be able to move into our new accommodations.
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