Hola!

Hi,

Welcome to 'The Guat Phone', or my travel blog as it shall be more sensibly known.

I plan to detail my adventures teaching English in Guatemala over the next year or so, and anywhere else I'm traveling during that period. I'm hoping to host photos, videos and all kinds of other gubbins for anyone that's interested.

The drastically condensed back story is: having lost my job in August I decided that, given a plummeting economy and being a bit miffed with city living, I would set out to do something different, preferably a long way away. A few conversations with friends turned up a contact in Guatemala City, and here we are. I fly in just over a week's time with a little money, no Spanish whatsoever and a hastily arranged TEFL qualification. Should be interesting.

I hope you'll check back once in a while to see how I'm getting on. I have the best of intentions of keeping this regularly updated, even if I have to send blog posts in by carrier monkey. In the mean time, thanks very much for reading.