Guatemalan Portrait: Maya Girls
What I really like about this picture is that each girl is looking in a different direction. What I enjoy about doing …
Guatemalan Portraits: Maya Girls
One of the things about cultural and traditional events that I like is that they are people magnets and it’s so much …
Mayan girls play around a tombstone for All Saints’ Day
Mayan girl Rosa Guadalupe and her siblings play around the family tombstones by throwing into the air “flores de muerto,” marigolds or …
Touring the Guatemalan Town Fair: The Spinning Games
Although we began the tour through the typical Guatemalan town fair yesterday, it was not declared until today. By the way, town …
Back to the Guatemalan School Year 2008
Public schools are free in Guatemala, minus some administrative fees. But, everything you need for school is not free; you need to buy a every single pencil and sheet of paper as well as any book or notebook, cuaderno in Spanish.
In the picture above, we can see parents with their children making the queues to purchase all the necessary school supplies at Librería Castillo in La Antigua Guatemala; librería is the Spanish term for bookstore or stationary store.
Antigua Makes Me Happy — Take 7
That’s right La Antigua Guatemala has a very special kind of magic that puts everyone in such a good mood. Here I …
Big Laughs at Antigua Guatemala’s Parque Central
This picture of two Guatemalan young women laughing so hard at the main square of Antigua Guatemala is my most recent capture …
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
This year’s Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe has been the best one I have covered in La Antigua Guatemala thus far. …
Student Band’s Practice at Ermita de la Santa Cruz Ruins
While driving over Calle Chipilapa, I was lucky several school marching bands practicing for an upcoming student band competition in La Antigua …
Huge Bougainvillea Tree at El Pensativo River
Believe it or not, the dry green river bed is El Pensativo River. The other day while driving on Calle Chipilapa, which takes you to La Ermita de la Santa Cruz Ruins, I saw this huge bougainvillea tree on the other side of El Pensativo River, dry now but soon it will have running water. I never seen a bougainvillea tree so big; my girlfriend and I saw a midget bougainvillea tree—about 1 meter in height— in Tapachula, Mexico.
Transculturation and Gender in Guatemala
Gender and identity. Gender and transculturation. Is there a difference in how men and women assume their identity and their traditions. What …
I am Guatemala as well
Honest, I don’t know if anybody else is documenting the fashion and style of the young Guatemalan. From eye wear, to hats, …
School Supplies for the New School Year
As I have mentioned before, bookstores and stationary stores are jam-packed around this time of the year in Guatemala since the new …
Meetings At the Park: Friends
Believe it or not, after 500 years, the Plaza Mayor, also known as Parque Central, still is the most popular venue to …
Día del Niño Activities in La Antigua Guatemala
Mimes and clowns were the main attraction for the boys and girls alike during the Día del niño, Children’s Day, celebrations. To …
Who should I call?
Cellular telephones are so inexpensive in Guatemala that I used to joke with a friend who did have a mobile phone that …
Selling Cell Phones in the La Antigua’s Market
The transnational Spanish cell phone company Movistar enters the humble Guatemalan market; following the example set by Domino’s Pizza. So now, you can go to el mercado (market) of La Antigua Guatemala for your vegetables, fruits, spices, flowers, dishes, charcoal and cell phones. These two girls, with Telefónica Movistar t-shirts, were selling the cell phones for Q130/USD$18 with Q100 of airtime and your own cellphone number; not bad all.
Please, braid my hair
Selling folk-art is only one of the activities that these two Indigenous girls do. —Don’t move little sister or I might hurt …