By Emily Moore Today we went to visit the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala City. We spent the morning preparing our questions together and going over the specific topics we wanted to discuss. After two weeks in Guatemala, there were so many things we wanted to talk about but we decided to hammer in [...]

By Sylvia Daigle Garcia Instead of learning on the ground, we returned to the academic side in our visit to Guatemala. We’ve seen how working and learning on the ground is vital for us to fully understand international development; however, today we were able to get the chance to remember the importance of [...]

By Rojette Asingayan On our tenth day of the delegation, we had a slower and later morning than usual. While some headed for breakfast on foot, the others took the van. It was really cool seeing a bit of what the everyday-life looked like for the locals of Mataquescuintla. For breakfast, we had [...]

By Tek Omod We started the day with an early breakfast before heading out at 7:30 a.m. for the three-hour drive to Mataquescuintla. Along the way, we stopped at a mine blockage, where community members shared their work. Many of them volunteered their time to monitor and control the petroleum trucks passing through. [...]

By Roda Obang We started off our morning with breakfast. This was our last meal at IMAP. During breakfast all of us were discussing how great it was at IMAP! After breakfast, we gathered together and Javier gave a lesson on Maya cosmovision dates. He began by reviewing the sacred day we were [...]

By Amélie Charbonneau We started the day off with a beautiful breakfast of cut up watermelon and cantaloupe, banana pancakes (our favourite), and some Greek yogurt with fresh cut fruit. Afterward we headed to the Nahual circle for our daily lesson on the Maya calendar. Today’s day was 8 E which represents the [...]