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Aug 5, 2006 - 11:09 AM |
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Country Status Report - Part 1 |
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So, I just recently passed two months in Guatemala. Currently I´ve been painting houses for Q50 a day, which is about ten hours a day. I´ve been teaching English three hours a week for about Q500 a month, and I´ve been job hunting in hotels and restaurants for about a month and a half. Oh, by the way, Q7.50 is about one dollar American. So you can see I´m living the GUATEMALAN DREAM right now.
I read up some reports on Guatemala when I was certain I was going to be sent here. Thinking back it´s kind of funny how they would constantly mention how oppressed and mistreated the local Mayan Indians were. So I was thinking I was gonna find some seriously depressing sights here. Fuck that, those fucking Indians are some of the dirtiest, rudest people I´ve ever met in my life. If they eat from garbage cans, have little education, and just about always survive by doing freelance housekeeping, it´s because they don´t have the ambition to improve themselves in life. It´s sad because, like most poor people, they pump out kids left and right. And you can just see that these poor kids are being raised by these people to almost learn that this way of life is the ONLY option. So really, the majority of these poor bastards never get out of the cycle.
So yeah, 200 dollars a month for food and rent doesn´t sound so bad until you realize the minimum salary is just below 200 a month and you have so much other shit to pay for. Fuck man. Then, in order to work, I´ve damn near had to get rid of all my long hair, which sucks, because this fucking country is so full of people that can´t understand a man with long hair.
I had a lot more to say, but now I´m irritated.
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