These last two weeks have been even busier than the others. We are still working in schools and have started relationships with two other ones. We have given presentations about the environment to 2 grades so far at the new school Alvarez.This school has 800 kids! It is the largest one in Guatemala. Sarah is amazing and has created props and costumes for us to wear. I am the tree and these presentations are also all in Spanish so it has been very fun! The kids t...

Hey everyone! Semana Santa was awesome, I have just put up some of the pictures, hopefully will get some more up this week or next. We are planning on going to Antigua this weekend for a little vacation! WOO! We have been working a lot still, this last weekend we had a pretty lazy time and relaxed finally. We had a big party on Saturday for Sarah and Aaron´s birthday parties! We played poker danced and drank some V & T, Venato, the yucky rum, and Tampico!...

Hey everyone, here is the article posted in the newspaper here about our presentation at the school. Andy and Rebecca translated as best they could. Enjoy! Rebecca was in the Prensa Libre last Friday, the biggest newspaper in Guatemala. Here is my attempt at translating in English, the original article follows in Spanish. Rebecca Sanchez, representative of the Association Chuwi Tinamit,explains to students about the plastic container recycling campaign.B...

Hello everyone! This week was fantastic! So much more has happened since we spoke in the school on Monday. We have so far three more schools set up for us to go speak at. Two of them are schools in Guate-Guatemala City. They are private schools and are taught in english so we get to speak at a little higher scientific level with these kids as they are also older and the exciting thing is we can use Power Point so we can use more pictures of the projects that ar...

Today we went to teach at the school!! It was amazing! There is so much to tell you all! We are in charge of giving presentations to the local schools about el medio ambiente (the environment). It is so fun to see the childrens interest! The whole presentation is in spanish! I am learning SO much. We did a few skits, had them repeat important words like environment, extinction, and carbon dioxide. They are learning how important it is that we take care of ou...