Saturday, December 09, 2006

A big Thank you from Guatemala

Hello my friend I hope you're well. I just wanted to let you know we had a fantastic time on November 18th at our Guatemala fund raising event.We raised a fantastic £361 which,by the time it reached Quetzeltenango had become 4780 quetzels! I have had grateful messages of thanks from our friends on the ground.They have bought one scholarship already and some gas for the house the students live in.
To say thank you to everyone who helped on the night, I arranged a little party at my house .
I'd read somewhere about December 7th being the feast day of " Burning the devil" in Guatemala .I thought it might be fun to burn a devil too! I made a head out of rolled-up newspaper and covered it in kitchen roll,you know, horns, ears, nose and drew a face on it and stuck it on a broom handle where it watched me from the corner of the kitchen while I made snacks for the guests.
When I set fire to it there was a strong wind blowing and it whipped the flames up into a fury.Unfortunately a bit of burning sellotape landed on my bare arm and now I have the mark of the devil himself... and me a good catholic girl!! pass the vitamin e someone! what a hoot!(p.s. I try to be good!) xxx

1 Comments:

At 10:52 PM, Jeff said...

Sounds like you all did well. £361 doesn't sound much to our ears but in the developing world it becomes a large amount. Well done to all involved.

Hope the arm gets better

 

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