I still have a lot of interesting stuff to blog about from my travels around Easter, but since then it's been (mostly) back to work. However, a few notable things have happened since then.
1. Illness
After a relatively fortunate first three months here, the stomach troubles that seem to plague everyone have cuaght up with me. I'm now two weeks into a stint of diahorrea which nothing seems to shift. I've been given anti parasitic medicine but even that didn't do much more than postpone it for a couple of days. I'm now on an exclusively rice, bread and pasta diet. Fun, I can assure you, it is not. However, as a form of crash dieting I can highly recommend it: I haven't weighed myself recently but I'm willing to bet the scales haven't been this untroubled in a few years.
2. New Housemates
The merry-go-round at the Oxford teachers' house continues to turn, and we welcome Nick and Hannah (both Australian, making the current scores Aus 3, US 2 and UK 1 (sob)). Ben leaves in a couple of weeks and then perhaps we get someone new. Anyways, Nick and Hannah are both ace and up for drinking and adventuring. Nick's buying a car too, so the potential for weekend road-trips pops its head up.
3. Big Trouble in Little Guatemala
Trouble at the top in Guatemala politics-wise. The assasination of a notable lawyer this weekend (who was the lawyer for a notable anti-corruption politician) triggered the release of a posthumous video in which he accuses the president's secretary of carrying out the murder of his client and implicating the president, a major bank and the Mexican drug cartels of working together. I'm going to refrain from commenting as I don't fully understand the political system down here (or indeed, how anything works at all) but if you're interested you can watch the video on youtube. Some of our staff are quite excited by the prospect of a coup, me not so much. Revolution often involves bullets and collateral damage, being a part of which I'm not a fan.
Right, I'm off to neck an Immodium and try to teach my SAT class. Toodle-pip.
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