Guatemala Mission 2011

Our team

I just got back from my third Mission trip to the Highlands of Guatemala. We do a teaching mission there with a great group of people. We painted a fun mural and taught the students art. We also brought in computers for the teachers and hooked them onto the internet and got them email addresses!

Posing with giggly second graders.

This is a view of the outside of the school pre-mural.

Teaching art with my interpreter and co-teacher!

Students helping out with the mural painting. That's me with the pink hat on;-)

The finished project. "care for the earth and She will care for you" was our catch phrase.

Our morning view, lovely.

A tag-along on the 1 1/2 hour truck ride off the mountain.

Holding a large piece of wood for our break as we kept stalling out.

I love the Guatemalan people and as you can see from the pics the children are not only beautiful they are full of love and laughter. After the mission trip we took our truck drive down the mountain and then picked up our bus for the rest of the trip to Antigua. Antigua has the some of most incredible buildings, food and shopping in the world. The markets are color-filled and vibrant. We took side trips to a coffee plantation and to Tikal, Mayan ruins in the northern rain forest, breathtakingly beautiful.

A cloud is falling onto the city of Antigua. It is surrounded by three volcanoes.

The fountain at the city square.

Picking up wood for fires from the coffee plantation.

Raw, fresh coffee beans.

 

Tikal, one of the many pyramids at this 256 square mile national park.