Guatemala, the CoEd Trip 2005

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Antigua draws people from many foreign places.

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This is a cript. Someone is always praying as evidenced by the candles.

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Antigua may be the most outstanding and best-preserved colonial city in Spanish America. Tourists visit Antigua every year from around the world to enjoy its natural beauty and historic monuments. The Spanish Colonial style permeates every part of the town: its houses, churches, squares, parks and ruins, also its traditions and folklore as well. Antigua is a city of charm and color where you can see and buy an overwhelming variety of attractive, handmade products that honor the traditions of generations of artisans.

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beautiful

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Antigua has many ruins that are in some phase of restoration.

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This is a column which fell. The historians want to keep it here to show the that it fell but that later they would replace it. Something like that.. where is Havierre' the tour guide?

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Very clear differences between original and restored.

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He moved...

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Most worshiped symbol of Christ.

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The 12 apostles of Christ depicted around this church entry.

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The Virgin Mary.

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Lots of people get married in Antigua.

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These Poloroid vendors hated seeing all of us with digital cameras.

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The public square in Antigua.

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All the guys did more than a double-take on this fountain.

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This was the answer! Steps go up this arche on one side to a bridgeway to the other side. Voila! I don't see the nuns, do you?

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They got so full that they had to buy more property. Trouble was, there was no adjacent property and they had to buy it across the street. Whats the problem? Cloister nuns can not be seen going outside in public!

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The name says it all. This was the home of the Cloister Nuns.

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Keep the dog off the artwork. You too gringo!

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For the religious ceremony. These street carpets where in some cases very detailed and made of all natural things like flower petals and pine needles.

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Cathedral where Jeff Berninger of CoEd married his Guatemalan wife in Antigua.

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Some men getting ready for the procession. 120 men pay for the priveledge of carrying the statue of Jesus through the streets of Antigua for 12 hours.

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.I don't know the significance of the dress. These men look like arabs while the ones on the other side look like Knights of Columbus. If anyone knows please comment here.

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Bobbie spotted that trap door in the floor down there and Havierre' gave her props for noticing. Way to go Bobbie!

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Havierre' our tour guide in Antigua. He was so knowledgeable.

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Roof of the old convent.

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Coventry Garden. I mean convent garden.

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Looking down the ole 'oop shoot'. There was at one time running water down there to ferry away the 'oop!

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toilet 5

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Toilet 6

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The groom didn't seem to like my picture-taking.

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The bride posed just for me!

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One of the folks in our group said that it isn't unusual in Antigua to loose power at night. Although this never happened we did have an quake at 3:30 a.m. according to many. I slept right through it. One of the girls caught a man trying to come in through her motel's window. One of our own guys climbed in through the window as not to wake his room-mate.

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Outside the old convent in Antigua.

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Are the two of you really long lost brother and sister? Sharon Dyson and David Harris

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I want to do this in my shower at home..hook up electric right to the shower head. What a way to wake up in the morning! bzzzzzzz! yeoh!

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Bye!

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It was like hey! look at that girl. She has our textbooks and is keeping them safe in the plastic just as we'd hoped! According to CoEd, these plastic bags take a beating but often the books are in such good condition even after four years that now some of the schools are thinking of ways to keep them even when they buy new updated ones.

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These kids where hiking through the fields to get to school.

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This is Main Street and pretty much everything was on this only road.

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.This home made of block vs. adobe in the pics below. Adobe is the cheapest though nearly every home has a corrogated or sheetmetal roof. Sheetmetal was introduced after the war.

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We were invited to see this woman's home. The cousin lived through that breezeway. She ran a store next to the school (common to see stores right next to the schools) while her husband worked in the cauliflower fields.

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Chipiacul School in Chimaltenango

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Arriving at the computer lab.

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Microsoft partner

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Lavoratory

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The other classrooms where pretty small.

Chipiacul School in Chimaltenango

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Computer Lab

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Joe said that this woman would show up time and time again begging CoEd to bring a computer lab to her village. When she spoke to our delegation Joe said "Thats the most English I think I've ever heard you speak!"

Chipiacul School in Chimaltenango

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Thats the woman who was relentless with the goal of getting this computer lab in her village.

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This rooster was probably the one waking us all up at 4:30 a.m. Or probably just guarding the water source.

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Most of the animals I saw were skin and bones.

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Its the local laundrymat without the mat part.

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Irrigation lines.

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Must be a commercial grower.

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If its not farming, its retailing.

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Unusual to see that truck empty..

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Heading to the slaughter house at the foot of Casa del Ray.

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Oooooh! Aaaah!

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Oh look, a late entry.

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Chicken busses to the starting line!

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Chicken bus rally. The buses are outcast school buses from the U.S. that have been painted bright colors. There is a pattern to which colors go to which place. Bus company names are painted along the bottom in wild fonts, and often decaled women's names over the top of the front window - the bus driver's girlfriend or wife's name, or sometimes his mother.

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Dude!

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That crutch was once used by Andre the Giant.

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I call these the Hola birds!

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Tide!

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How many of these are P&G products?