By the numbers...

• 200 000: people murdered by the Guatemalan military during the civil war.
• 36: years of brutal civil war
• 50: strawberry licuados (smoothies) consumed..probably a low estimate
• 40: times a prof has had to get Pavel to stop, slow down, and repeat himself. (incoherent babble......ZUGAIIIII!)
  
• 5000: number of homicides in a year in Guatemala city alone (for comparison...we get around 30 a year in Vancouver. They get 30 on a bad night.)
• 4000: approximate number of coffee cherries I picked at the coffee co-op.
• 2000: approximate number of coffee cherries I had to throw out because they were bad :(
• 1000: number of bricks moved during Habitat project.
• 946: approximate number of hours spent on a bus
• 29: Gravol pills consumed during said hours spent on bus
• 25: breakfasts eaten at Maya Cafe (fried eggs, beans and tortillas. mmmmm.)
• 45: number of indegenous peasant families evicted from their land this year with little or no compensation by Canadian mining companies (anyone investing in Goldcorp?)
• 73: number of sandfly/bedbug/mosquito bites received on break week
• 3: number of bottles of placebo itch cream we went through
• 98: percent of all crimes that go unpunished in Guatemala
• 16: litres of sweat produced by all of us at the Pacific Coast. so. hot.
  
• 9: number of marshmallows roasted and eaten on top of molten MAGMA at Volcan Pacaya.
• 15: quetzales, cost of a tuk tuk ride home in Antigua (whiplash is free)
• 7: number of essays written, in 9 weeks of class
  
• 6: number of travel plans screwed up by Adrenalina Tours (out of a total of 6). fail.
  
• 5: lobster kebabs eaten (over a period of 3 and a half days)
• 4: number of earthquakes felt while in Guatemala
• 5.9: richter scale magnitude of the biggest one
  
• 2: number of volcanoes climbed
• 1: amazing learning experience.