Mi Casa, Mi Familia y San Pedro

The family I live with here in San Pedro are fantastic they couldn’t be any nicer. Antonio Pop is the Father he is a Pastor and works in another town 4 hours away but commutes each day. Every night when he gets home from work he gives me a big hug as if he hasn´t seen me for days, he´s so sweet.
Vicenta is the mother she is a real ´MUM´ she stays at home to cook and look after us all. She´s a really strong woman both in stature and mentally and can carry heavier things on her head then I think the average man back home could.
Deborah is the eldest daughter at 14 and Sarita is the youngest at 9.



This is them this afternoon after lunch.
Vicenta, Antonio Pop and Sarita. We are missing Deborah as it’s her turn to go to school in the afternoons. Sarita is waring her new uniform, she goes to a better school then most. As they rent their rooms out to students therefore having 2 good incomes, they can afford to send her to a school costing 60Q per month (there are 13Q to the Pound now I think).

I am teaching her English for 2 hours a day Mondays and Tuesdays and she loves it.



Their house is very basic and straight forward, it has a dry kitchen which is a room with a cooker, cupboards and table. An outdoor patio (pictured above) which has the cold water sink, toilet and shower yeek!!!!!!!!! still haven´t got used to that one yet and off the patio are the 3 bedrooms (mine is straight ahead behind the net door). They have rented the girls bedroom out to a student from Belgium now so they are all in together I´m guessing.



This is ´Mi Casa´, Vicenta’s sister lives next door (the door on the right) with her family. They have compromised on space by using the front as a shop as her Husband is a tailor and works from home, so we share our outdoor bathroom and sink with them like one big happy family.



This is my street my house is towards the top on the right.



And this is the market in San Pedro, my school wall is the right of the picture. Its a bit old and tatty but this is something that we never mention as it would mean joining the opposing side who want to knock down our school in order to improve it.
I think its beautiful as it is!!



San Pedro itself nestles at the bottom of Volcano San Pedro (pictured above), it’s not active right now so it just looks like a mountain but there are 2 more around the lake which can be seen together on the approach from Panajachel it´s really stunning but as yet I have only had my camera with me at night.



So more pictures will follow.......