Hello you all,
Well, this weekend was funny. On friday I went out for a beer with Maria, it was cool. After a few beers, we were talking about mexico and I took advantage of my cell phone and we called Castillo (castle in english), which is a house in mexico where many trainees live. We talked with Lilian for some time, it was nice to hear her voice again after so long. I am planning a trip to Mexico as soon as the fucking mexican embassy gives me my visa, which depends on the damn Department of Imigration of Guatemala, that asks you a bunch of documents for me to take my temporarily visa here.
Well, on saturday I went with Ahmid to Escuintla, that is a city near the coast because he had to go to the bank there, and then we passed on a Tienda (a small shop, that sells mostly groceries) and bought 2 beers. On the road a little more, we stopped on a 24h Tienda, and bought 6 more beers. There were a woman there selling "Carnitas y Chicharrones", which in portuguese is carnes e torresmo, in english, let me see... meat and fried porks skin (I have no idea if they have a name for it). well, we ate it whti corn tortillas and radish salad (in portuguese, rabanete, in spanish rabano). It was good, we ate a lot and drunks one more beer.
On the way to the beach, 1 more beer each. It was very hot, the sky very clean. When we reached the village near the beach, Ahmid told me that the public beaches are bad, dirty, crowded and so on. We decided to take our chance. We went to a private beach he knows (his friend has a very nice house there), and told the security we were going to see if the hotel was full, or maybe have lunch. It worked, and we entered the neighboorhood nice and easy. We parked and started walkin, with our last beer on hand (note: beer here is very expensive, so its good for you to buy on markets, its way cheaper). The beach, Puerto Quetzal, is the one above:
Yes, the sand is black. Very strange, considering we are in the pacific ocean and near 3 tectonic breachs. Well, thats not so strange. The sand is much more hot. It really burns your feet.
Well, we returned to the city, a little sleepy because of the beers and the hot weather. It was nice.
On sunday, I went shopping. There is another trainee, Ana, that wanted to buy some clothing and regards from Guatemala. Ceci, Ana and I we went to find some clothing on the shopping malls at first. No luck. We went to Zona 1, that is downtown, and there are several markets on the streets. Here there are more pirate cd's than in Brazil. They also sell clothing and all kinds of stuff on the streets, just like Brazil. There we managed to find some cheap blouses for Ana. After that we went to the central market, where they sell local stuff. Imagine, 2 girls in a market to buy presents. I indeed waited a very long time. I am also thinking about the presents I'll buy when I get back home. I also bought some nice postcards, hehehehe. Well, after many stores and many bags of stuff we managed to leave there. We were starving. It was about 1 in the afternoon (I woke up at 7). We went to a very famous place here, Chucos de Liceo. Chucos are the local hot dogs. They add some cabbage, avocado and pepper, in a mix with some local sausages (I asked my first one with bacon too), and we ate 2 each. The girls do eat, hehehe. Well, after that we were full, and went to another shopping mall. There we had for desert a donut, and Ana bought one more blouse.
Ok, end of saga.
rest of sunday home, sleeping and watching tv...
Goodbye you all, miss Brazil...
