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This past weekend, I went on a solo adventure to Jaibalito and Santa Cruz, two very small towns on Lake Atitlán. It was very nice to spend some time by myself (and with some very eccentric ex-pat transplants who frequent the hostel I stayed at), and I feel reinvigorated this week.

This is not the promised post on cultural differences— that is coming soon. In the meantime, here are a few photos from what we've been doing in my classroom:

Here is what our "We are friends!" wall looks like now— now with 16 students:

And here are a few pictures from when parents came in to give presentations about their jobs, as part of our "People in our Community" unit:

And here are two of my students using the iPads you all worked so hard to raise. Thank-you cards are on their way!