Got Caught on Camera!

A couple of weeks ago I came into school on Monday to learn I, along with a group of Celas Maya students, appeared in the national magazine included in Sunday´s newspaper. When we went on the tour of the city there were some men with professional cameras in the cemetary who interviewed our guide. Well, these journalist were doing a story on the legend of Vanushka for this national magazine, and they used our photo in their story layout. A friend who reads the paper brought a copy of it to me at school, so I will post photos of the story for you to see sometime this week. (Unfortunately, the internet services at Celas Maya are not fast enough to upload photos on the web, so I have to go elsewhere.)

Last night four of us attended a conference regarding immigration to the United States sponsored by the local organization Entremundos. Entremundos is a social action organization which produces a monthy free newsletter covering social justice issues affecting people in Guatemala. Someone there recognized me as having appeared in the newspaper, which is a bit odd when I am living in a foreign country. It got me thinking about the number of times I have appeared in a foreign publication. When I was traveling with Semester at Sea they would post on the ship all the articles written about us. Often times they highlighted service projects being done by students, staff and faculty and showed photos of them in action. I remember something similar happening when I was working in Australia with Visions: Service Adventures. A group of us appeared in the paper planting native species on an Aboriginal cooperative.

I will write more about the conference on immigration soon. But it takes more time than I have right now. It is just about lunch time, and I do not want to keep my host family waiting for me.