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April 27, 2005
Rebecca's Dad Visits
We had a great weekend at the lake, and we found out that Rebecca is becoming an amateur photographer.
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April 15, 2005
Juicy Pucker
The age where you can socially interact despite the fact that your head is as big as your chest... Kinder.
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April 13, 2005
Mobile Brothel
Picture taken by my brother on his visit here:
We explained to Joel that Bimbo is atually a brand of bread. And when my Guatemalan coworkers saw that we had taken a picture of a bread truck, I tried to gracefully explain what a Bimbo was.
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April 12, 2005
GOSH.
Alex posts Are you kidding me? on his blog about the Idaho state legislature, which spent taxpayer money to write a bill commending the movie Napoleon Dynamite. Incredible.
Excerpt from the actual bill (this is LAW):
10 WHEREAS, filmmaker Jared Hess is a native Idahoan who was educated in the
11 Idaho public school system; and
12 WHEREAS, the Preston High School administration and staff, particularly
13 the cafeteria staff, have enjoyed notoriety and worldwide attention; and
14 WHEREAS, tater tots figure prominently in this film thus promoting Idaho's
15 most famous export; and
16 WHEREAS, the friendship between Napoleon and Pedro has furthered
17 multiethnic relationships; and
18 WHEREAS, Uncle Rico's football skills are a testament to Idaho athletics;
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April 11, 2005
Malena, Tyler and Ashley visit
A week ago, Tyler, Ashley, and Malena visited. Five people in our [race]car, we drove the treacherous roads of Guatemala including the altitude intensive road to Atitlan, the 4WD worthy approach to Volcano Pacaya, and two (unseen) speed bumbs at 50MPH. $450 in new shocks later, the Blurple proudly persists.
On Friday night we went to our favorite tiny club, where we met these two random girls who definitely were too cool for us; it was written all over their faces. They were probably high-fashion models who have been trained that smiling is outmoded.
So the next day we went to Casa Del Mundo on the lake.
Yeah, yeah, it was beautiful and all that crap, but more importantly, you could swim to a 55 foot cliff and jump into the lake (might have been 388 feet, we were just estimating). Rebecca, who also shoots for National Geographic, took this picture of me mid-fall. You can see Tyler and Malena on the ledge about to go next. My advice upon surfacing was "clinch".
Of no importance, that night Tyler LOST A TRAGIC GAME OF CHESS TO SOMEONE. The next day we climbed Pacaya, still quite active.
I also took the following picture at dusk. It's 16:9, so clicking this link will launch it in a popup.
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April 08, 2005
Ignore this Blog Post on Clockys
This is just a post for my Multimedia Class, in order to get my page about how to Buy a Clocky indexed.
My multimedia class is having a competition to achieve the highest ranking on google, and count non-Guatemalan web site hits. They are all advertising Clocky.
Here you can pretend to buy a Clocky.
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April 04, 2005
Perception Problem
One of Rebecca's kindergartners has finally completed an epic piece set for display in the Galeria de Classroom. The medium is colored wax and graphite on thin stock paper. The artist was attempting to capture the joy she felt living and learning around her teacher and her teacher's fiance. It's entitled "Ms. Rebecca and Jeff". The subtitle is "I love Jeff, I love Ms. Rebecca."
(C) All Rights Reserved, Conchita Perez, 5 years old
Most critics are calling the work a "masterpiece". It's whimsical approcah to gender roles in education captures the essence of the world-mother-nurturer, and disregards biological sex in a progressive effort to mar traditional stereotypes. Here, Jeff is portrayed in a dress, holding a flower, and being generously chested. The happy couple is set to depart on their mechanical ladybug together.
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