We made it back to Guatemala this afternoon after visiting to my family in Florida. We had a fabulous time visiting everyone, especially my niece and nephew! But we’re really happy to be back home now.
Flying in to Guatemala City
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We’re taking a two week vacation today to visit my family in Florida. My brother’s graduating with his Master’s degree, and we’re very excited to go hang out with his two kids for a few days.
One of my primary jobs lately has been to tutor math. Topics from this past week include: fractions, solving square roots, algebra, plotting equations, logarithms, and trigonometry. I think that there was only one day this past week that I didn’t help someone out with math. I’ve actually decided that I enjoy it much more than tutoring English. English seems like it should be easy for me to teach, but because I learned it as a kid, I have trouble explaining the rules. Yuli, on the other hand, is very good at explaining English, and stays very busy tutoring it. But math is much easier for me, and I’m enjoying tutoring the kids a lot.
These past two weekends Elias from Casa Shalom has come over to our house because he’s currently in high school and specializing in computer programming. We’ve had a great time together, and I really enjoy helping him out with it. It’s fun to have one of the guys that I use to take care of now interested in the same subject as me! He’s in a very good and challenging school, and it’s exciting to see him grow. His brother Benjamin also has been coming over to stay with us on the weekends after he finishes his own classes. Yuliza and I have really enjoyed having our house more and more filled with people every weekend. It’s definitely the highlight of the week for us!
Today we celebrated Santos’ 18th birthday with him and his brother José. They’re the brothers that have returned from Casa Shalom to live with their grandmother, and we’re helping them out with their school. Santos’ birthday is actually in a week, but we’re going to be away for it.
We had a great time hanging out with them, and we’re so happy to see them succeeding outside of the home. I forgot to take a picture, (oops!) so here’s a picture from 5 years ago when we hiked up a volcano together. Santos is on the far right in a green jacket. He’s grown up a lot since then!