August Field Work

I have been meaning to post a few photos of my last month of fieldwork.  I conducted a series of focus groups with women in five different communities about their experiences with the goat project.  I was also involved in a training of health & nutrition leaders regarding consumption of goat milk with a few [...]

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Update & a new food blog

I can hardly believe that it is September!  Classes started today, and it may take a week or two to narrow it down to four.  I’m excited for “Micro Development Economics: Poverty Reduction Policy Analysis for Developing Countries” and “International Humanitarian Policy and Public Health”, but still deciding among classes on epidemiology, comparative politics, development [...]

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Todos Santos

The weekend that Ethan left Guatemala I went to Huehuetenango to visit Eva, Lizzie & Eduardo, fellow extranjeros who were working on an evaluation project. Huehue (pronounced “way-way”) felt rather unfriendly, it is much bigger than Nebaj and walking there at night was one of the few times I felt unsafe in Guatemala. [...]

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La Ferria Nebaj

This is my last week in Nebaj, and coincidentally the most fabulous week of the year – la ferria!  It would have been smart to cancel all my work for this week, as there is way too much fun to be had.
The biggest deal in town, or at least the tallest thing in town right [...]

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Off to Las Verapaces & a few field notes

Ethan and I are just about to leave Nebaj for a week of travel. The tentative itinerary is Coban, Sierra de Las Minas, Semuc Champey and Las Cuevas de Candelaria. All of the things we look for in a vacation – biodiversity, natural wonders and a whole lot of muddy hiking. (Though [...]

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Nebaj photos I

I am more than halfway through my time here in Guatemala, and Ethan leaves in only a few weeks. Kay and Kevin (Ethan’s parents) are visiting us this week after spending two weeks at language school in Xela (they should have their own blog, Kevin takes much more photos than we do!)  The three of [...]

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music on the micros

I have done a lot of traveling this week, by camioneta (i.e. chicken bus) and micro (pronounced “mee-crow”).  When you are crammed in with so many people (I once had the money-taker pretty much sitting in my lap) hurtling around hairpin curves, the music being played can count for a lot.  I’m starting to recognize [...]

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27-6-2008

So many experiences and thoughts are piling up now that I’m not sure what to start with.  My project has been more frustrating that I had anticipated, but I had a great few days in the field this week with one of the most experienced supervisors, Don Hector.  We visited dozens of families who have [...]

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Sunday June 8 – Settling In

A lot has happened in the last week or so – a weekend in Antigua, our first chicken bus rides, getting stuck in Guatemala City due to heavy rains making the highways dangerous. We have more photos to share, coming soon.
I am writing this in our kitchen in Nebaj. We are preparing dinner [...]

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29-5-2008

Little news to report, except that we are still in limbo and I have a meeting on Monday that will (ojala que) help move this project forward.  Also, we had a delightful lunch at a little parilla that is not in either of the guidebooks.  I think we should write a guide of our own [...]

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