We went to Antigua again yesterday, with Joseph Spory. He went to both Hesston and EMU, but he´s a year behind us. All of the regular CASAS students are leaving tomorrow for their 4 weeks of service in various parts of the country. Joseph is going to take another class at CASAS in the last 4 weeks, so he is staying in the city. It´s only a dollar to get to Antigua, and it´s only an hour away, so it´s easy to go on a Saturday. We did less shopping and more seeing of old buildings and stuff than the first time we went.
The artisan market
Part of the old cathedral
One of the streets.. they all basically look like this, adorable.
Joseph consulting the map.. Definitely reminds me of my dad on vacations, ha.
This is the director (I think) at the hospital where we are working. We´ve met him a few times, but he is very well known here. It´s kind of a long story, but his dad was Guatemalan, his mom was from Honduras, he was born in Italy and grew up in Germany, attended Harvard and taught there, and now lives here. He knows 7 languages and has been a pediatric cardiologist for 50 years (he´s now 80 and still working). There is a foundation here named after him (Aldo Castañeda Foundation). The pediatric cardiologists we work with had an international conference in Antigua this weekend, which we were invited to, but we didn´t go because it was expensive. It was going to be a 3 day event all about Transposition of the Great Arteries, in English. Anyway, when we were walking around Antigua, I had forgotten about the conference, but we happened upon the building where it was taking place, so we took a picture with this :)
The artisan market
Part of the old cathedral
One of the streets.. they all basically look like this, adorable.
Joseph consulting the map.. Definitely reminds me of my dad on vacations, ha.
This is the director (I think) at the hospital where we are working. We´ve met him a few times, but he is very well known here. It´s kind of a long story, but his dad was Guatemalan, his mom was from Honduras, he was born in Italy and grew up in Germany, attended Harvard and taught there, and now lives here. He knows 7 languages and has been a pediatric cardiologist for 50 years (he´s now 80 and still working). There is a foundation here named after him (Aldo Castañeda Foundation). The pediatric cardiologists we work with had an international conference in Antigua this weekend, which we were invited to, but we didn´t go because it was expensive. It was going to be a 3 day event all about Transposition of the Great Arteries, in English. Anyway, when we were walking around Antigua, I had forgotten about the conference, but we happened upon the building where it was taking place, so we took a picture with this :)
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