only about 4.5 weeks to go

and I am starting to dread to pack my bag, buy goodies for everyone and all BUT on the other hand it will be nice to see everyone back ... I guess it is kind of strange especially going back to NL to take care of business. I mean it won’t be the last time of course that I will be there since my friends are still there but this time will be very different. I guess it is in a way a closing chapter to all that has been going on. By now I have had enough distance to it all and all the angry and hurt feelings that were there have been replaced with a different way of thinking. More now into let it go and take all the good that I have learnt from it with me and remember all the good things. I mean a new chapter of my life has already started here in Guatemala and I am sure that my future is with Elmer either here, Spain or some other country but together which is more important than anything else.

Carino, thank you already for letting me stay with you for about a week or so - who knows if you will be glad to see the last of me afterwards or if you hardly want to let me go o,)))

As for taking care of business I must say that right now it is a big *uck-up. Pim has got the power-of-attorney from Menno and I but the bloody notary won’t return his phone calls and won’t answer our emails either. So instead of everything being sorted out by now and the transfer having taken place ... nothing has happened so far and that is really bad! I hope that it will be sorted out by Monday so that we are done and dusted with it all! Right now though it makes me nuts that I can’t walk over there and tell them to better get their act together or else.

Today was great! I was awake before the alarm and felt very active so I made pancakes. We both left around 10am him off to work and I was off to Jocotenango. I got a haircut there since the prices in Antigua are ridiculous high. The joke though was that the girl who usually cuts my hair wasn’t in so I got a young guy. He was like 19 years old and started hitting on me and wanted my phone number etc. It was in a way funny but also rather irritating! I than went by Ema’s but she wasn’t in instead I chatted with Julie a bit. She is from Germany as well and is staying again with Ema. She had a bit of a horror story to tell since she and her friend got mugged like 50m away from home. So much for it being safer in Los Llanos than Antigua! I basically don’t dwell on the possibility of getting robbed, mugged etc. although so far I have been lucky I guess - better knock on wood for that one! I took the bus back to Antigua and it started to drizzle by the time I was in Cafe Flor it was pouring. The temperature dropped and before when I was running around in my tank top and short skirt I was now sitting there and was so cold. I was glad when I got off work and was actually able to take a shower. Due to the power outages our freezer had decided to leak all the water into the fridge and that of course leaked onto the floor. Typical men! He saw it happening and put some Tupperware jar under the dripping part in the fridge and took the big ice cubes out of the freezer. However he didn’t mention it with one word to me or move the stuff in the fridge to the sides so not everything would be contaminated. Gee! I cleaned the fridge today and the bathroom and the kitchen needed some cleaning as well. The day before we were like really lazy and did nothing except sleep, eat, talk and go to work. He made a wonderful brunch and it was really delicious. Anne my friend from Cafe Flor told me that he is like an exception. She has by now almost given up on her boy-friend who will hardly do anything or will hardly pick up on the little things and do something about it. Must really be the mentality here or how they are raised I don’t know. Anyway, I am happy with my baby and he is getting to be more like me in some ways which is good and he does help when asked o,)))

I don’t know if it this weather or just the fact that there are hardly people around but I am pretty quickly tired since it is so boring. The weather doesn’t really help either since it is now raining more again. So far I have managed to keep my shoes dry - hhuuhhhuu! That is an accomplishment and wet shoes really do not have a pleasant odor!

By now I should be looking into what presents to buy and if it all fits into my backpack and what to take with me like clothes, what I have to buy in the States better ... I have already got ideas but not quiet sure yet if it really the right thing for everyone etc.

The days pass by very quickly and although work is really boring it is fun in a way. The time we spend together means so much more now since although we do nap together even gettign bored makes you sleepy but take more time to cook and sit at the table eat and chat so that is good. We wanted to go last Friday to the pool but in the end we were to lazy and enjoyed doing nothing together. Upcoming week my schedule looks very different and that means therefore that we might get more day time together than night time when we are both tired anyway.

My time in Funky is almost up and than it is off to Cafe Flor but of course before the pit-stop in Monoloco o,))