Goodbye Xela.....

Our final week in Xela was bittersweet....we were eager to move on with our travels but also very sad to leave a place that had become like a second home to us and the people that had become like a second family to us..


Detail from inside the library at El Nahual.


The community garden at El Nahual...I spent 2 weeks volunteering on this project.




Kyle, myself, and Javier rockin' out (Javier is a future air guitar champion.)



Becca and her weaving teacher, Maria. Becca made the textile she is holding in her hands.


Beautiful children from Candelaria, the school where Becca volunteered for 2 weeks.



Despues de cinco semanas de clases de Espanol, me dieron una diploma. Mi maestros from L to R: Horacio, me, Vinicio, and Juan Ramon.



Old Man Rufus, eternal guardian of El Nahual...



One of my finest showings at International Comida, our weekly student cooked lunch.



The students of El Nahual on our second to last night....El Sabor de la India....delicious!



Our Famila Guatemalteca....Angela, Ana Maria, Manuel, Dave, Becca, and Guardian (r to l)