Casa Guatemala - part 5
Back on the numbering scheme again:)
I´ve now left Casa Guatemala although I´ll be back on Saturday for the leaving do of two other volunteers. So here are more photos of the place. The last week wasn´t a normal week as 1) I gained a boyfriend and 2) it was Guatemala´s Independence Day on the 15/9 so the last few days were all the grades competing for various dance, drawing, writing, singing prizes.
At the end of the day the orphanage was an experience which I´m glad I´ve done but which has left me with more unanswered questions for me. I am sad to leave the volunteers, some of the children, the teachers and the location, but it feels right to leave as if its a new start. Next step, finish seeing Guatemala and then head into Mexico....
(photos: some of the children; a kinder village child who went on to win an award; all the contestats for the Nina Monja award; Kinder children dancing; Maria on the catwalk for the Miss Independencia award in the Guatemalan national dress; 1st grade doing a Mauri dance; 5th form in the dance routine competition; 6th form in the same competition; all the children in the playing field singing the 5+ minute long national anthem1; local village kids larking around; the volunteers house (the pig farm is the white building behind it on the right of the photo); the main area of Casa Guatemala (outside the restaurant (on the left) and the girls dormitories (on the right); Shirley- lovely adorable child and a good drawer.)
I´ve now left Casa Guatemala although I´ll be back on Saturday for the leaving do of two other volunteers. So here are more photos of the place. The last week wasn´t a normal week as 1) I gained a boyfriend and 2) it was Guatemala´s Independence Day on the 15/9 so the last few days were all the grades competing for various dance, drawing, writing, singing prizes.
At the end of the day the orphanage was an experience which I´m glad I´ve done but which has left me with more unanswered questions for me. I am sad to leave the volunteers, some of the children, the teachers and the location, but it feels right to leave as if its a new start. Next step, finish seeing Guatemala and then head into Mexico....
(photos: some of the children; a kinder village child who went on to win an award; all the contestats for the Nina Monja award; Kinder children dancing; Maria on the catwalk for the Miss Independencia award in the Guatemalan national dress; 1st grade doing a Mauri dance; 5th form in the dance routine competition; 6th form in the same competition; all the children in the playing field singing the 5+ minute long national anthem1; local village kids larking around; the volunteers house (the pig farm is the white building behind it on the right of the photo); the main area of Casa Guatemala (outside the restaurant (on the left) and the girls dormitories (on the right); Shirley- lovely adorable child and a good drawer.)
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