- 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.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
By the numbers...
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