Multiple Goodbyes

Because of a few of the groupies leaving Guatemala for personal events and work, we actually had our goodbye dinner the first week in June at “Sabor de la India,” a surprisingly great Indian restaurant in Xela! Dinners with the group are never dull, complete with a homemade music video, a slide show, superlatives, and of course, awesome speeches.


The starts of our “Boyz 2 Men in Guatemala” video…




And some speeches,





"Somos Hermanos" Diplomas!



And the Tuesday morning of our last week (the morning before Raquel left for TFA!), Judy prepared us all a delicious banana-pancake breakfast and we had our official graduation from Spanish class at the school!

Making pancakes!




And Maya gave out the beautiful friendship bracelets she made for everyone :)




The graduation in the backyard of the school with the group, our teachers, and my Guatemalan family even came!
Maya and Raquel sang a song for entertainment in true SH tradition...

One of the teacher's Johanna making some nice comments about one of her favorite students, Ricardo,

Receiving my diploma from my teacher from the last week, Claudia,

Antonietta (aka my Guatemalan "mom") came,

We made speeches too :)...