End of story

I figured it is only right to finish this story with a picture of mine:

This picture was taken with the help of my Spanish friend Alfonso. The person sitting there is me, and behind me is the village of Yalambojoch, seen from top of the centre where I lived and worked for a month. It was taken just a few days before my long return home.

The trip back went very well, and was in itself a very short yet incredibly exciting adventure. Thanks to my Spanish skills and Barcelona-inspired spontanity I met loads of interesting people while I visited, after in-between sleeping in Huehue, the more tourist-filled places of Panajachel and Antigua, enjoying coffee after coffee and fantastic, luxurious and varying meals. And then I flew home without losing one single thing in my heavy luggage, arriving at Stockholm safely and happily for finally being home.

As any more details of this would sort of ruin the point of this voluntary blog, that is all I will be writing about that. The point I most of all want to make is that this adventure was even more than I expected - fluent Spanish, spontaneity, discipline, teaching, just to mention a few things I have gained from it, accompanied with loads of excitement and new knowledge and understanding about these fascinating cultures of Central America. Truly worth more than I expected. And, like I believe I mentioned before doing the trip, truly the trip of my life.

Now, though, it's time to finally take a deserved break. I hope you've enjoyed reading my blog, and I hope you've also gained something from it, whether it be knowledge or just some fun.

Oh, and always, feel free to contact me if you're wondering anything!
Ciao,
/Sebastian Everett

Last few hours...

This is it. First of august European time, took my last cold shower here (quite comfortable now that I'm used to it!), and in only a few hours I will be on the bus to Huehuetenango. All my voluntary work is finally finished, and soon I will be enjoying visiting a lake called titlan-something (I didn't hear the name very clearly when they spoke it) and another place called Antigua before my flight home. If all goes well with the schedule and such, that is.

Having the last lesson of computing today was very special. It went great, I think, as I found a website with exercises for the three lone students that could come this last weekend. Although in the end they were so tired that we skipped the last one and a half hour after lunch, and I took some photos together with them as a memory. Right after that they gave me a really touching goodbye, thanking me personally for the things I've taught them.

Except for the sad part of leaving all the friendly people here though I feel quite happy to soon be on my way home, and of course relieved to get a real vacation from the hard work. Eleven hours of computing every weekend and a class of teenagers in music, all in Spanish, is really exhausting. So I'm looking forward to two more weeks of chill relaxing, gaming and hanging out with friends. And bragging about my trip to everyone, of course!

Now, off to the last part of my great adventure.