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El Triunfo, Guatemala, indigenous dress, Lago de Atitlán, Lake Atitlan, Mayan women, San Antonio, Sanik, Social Entrepreneur Corps
August 1st – hard to believe the summer’s already winding down and I’ve been here over two months. As always, it’s been a hectic few weeks, but we’re finally wrapping up our last week of SECorps programs. After an exhausting first field week (two office campaigns, one traditional field campaign, and one “bonus” campaign at a gastronomy and artisanry festival across the lake in Santiago Atitlan – in addition to some complicated APF projects), Bo and I woke up early with our team on Monday morning for a four hour drive up to Nebaj – the town in the Ixil region of El Quiche, where our organization was founded. We had a delicious team lunch at El Descanso, the restaurant that Greg Van Kirk (our co-founder) first started while working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nebaj, and then packed up our micro with a new group of students for another four hour drive back to Pana.