If you want to read about our trip, all the blog posts are below. If you want to do it chronologically, scroll down to the post from Sunday March 22 entitled: Wellshire Group In Guatemala! Post 1 from Saturday, 3/21. Then you can read up from there:
Wellshire group in Guatemala: Post 2 from 3/22/09
Wellshire Group in Guatemala: Post 3 from 3/23/09
Wellshire Group in Guatemala: Post 4 from 3/24/09
Wellshire Group in Guatemala: Post 5 from 3/25/09
Wellshire Group in Guatemala: Post 6 from 3/26 and 3/27
Or you can just read straight down and learn about the trip from the last day to the first, totally up to you. Trying to appease both linear and non-linear thinkers. :)
While we were in Guatemala, the UN celebrated World Water Day, which is a day designed to raise awareness around the issues of the 1.1 Billion people that lack access to safe drinking water. We got some very positive news coverage from a few local TV stations here in Denver including 9News, our NBC affiliate. Below is the video:
If the video doesn't come up in the blog, you can also access it and an article on the 9News website here:
http://www.9news.com/life/programming/shows/mornings/article.aspx?storyid=112223&catid=229
We also were interviewed by 7 News, and I will post that video when I get it.
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Finally, I wanted to share a fun, light-hearted video with everyone after all this serious water stuff. On our trip we had various levels of Spanish speakers, and it was a real joy watching people speaking in Spanish, trying the phrases they knew, and building relationships with Guatemalans.
As a part-time Spanish professor, I tried to share my insight, knowledge and tips. One of the people on the trip told me about this video, which is absolutely hilarious. For anyone who has ever taken a foreign language class and remembers their experience and the vocabulary from that class, this video perfectly captures it. The video is called "The one semester of Spanish - Spanish love song." It uses all the phrases that you learn in your first semester of Spanish to try to win over the heart of a lovely lady. . . ENJOY!
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