While adjusting to my new home, I am not forgetting to miss Guatemala.
Mayan women and girls in Pujujil, Solola:
Teenagers hanging out in Xela’s central park:
The view of Xela from El Baul:
The beach at Champerico:
Beautiful Lake Atitlan, sadly contaminated by cyanobacteria algae:
Xela’s cemetery, with a view of Volcano Santa Maria:
Finally found the roll of film from my trip to Washington, DC in January. Though financially irresponsible, going for the inauguration was perhaps the best idea ever. I was having a particularly tough winter, and it was impossible to feel down in DC that week.
Too bad I was so excited at getting a glimpse [...]
It’s funny how you can live in a city and find it boring without taking the time to learn or appreciate more. Sure, I know that Ottawa is not the world’s most exciting place, and in the winter I feel claustrophobic and desperate to leave. but with springtime, there’s more opportunity to find dozens of [...]
Kuna Yala, otherwise known as San Blas, must be one of the world’s most intensely relaxing places. The moment I stepped off the plane, my shoulders lost their typical hunch, my legs relaxed, and I breathed more deeply. Lying in a hammock on the deck of the Hotel San Blas, there was nothing to think [...]
I finished traveling, returned to Toronto, packed up my life, moved to Ottawa, and started grad school. I think that I’m now starting to settle in, which will hopefully mean a return to consistent blogging. What is grad school for, but to come up with projects to distract from reading, writing, and marking first-year papers? [...]
These three kids might as well be called the Three Stooges. The boy on the left is five-year-old Tidi. The little one in the middle is his three-year-old sister Alindi. They are two of our neighbor Mme Ilboudo’s children. The girl on the right is four-year-old Aleah, the little sister of my friends Ruth and [...]
On Tuesday morning I received a message from a girl who is in Burkina Faso right now, working for the same organization as I did last summer. I had written her asking how all the kids are. “They’re good,” she said. “They talk about you all the time.” Upon reading this, I proceeded to burst [...]
I’m probably getting way ahead of myself here in the “epic memoir” department, but I don’t think I can write much about Sapone without outlining at least some of the people who populated the neighborhood I lived in. I’ve exchanged a few emails with Danielle since we’ve left Burkina Faso, but I remember one in [...]
One of the main things I am planning on doing with this website is to blog rolls of film. I’ll take a roll, whether old or new, and highlight my favourites.
I took this roll of B&W (TMAX 100) about a month ago in late May. It was actually the weekend of Toronto Doors Open, [...]
