Here are views of the bedroom, living room and kitchen of the house which I rent. It is not nearly as pretty or plush as the house on Sosa, but it is nice to have my own dedicated cooking and leisure space. Life is always a series of trade offs. I am getting quite proficient at cooking with an oven that has no temperature gauge, which I use to feed my Belizean friends' sweet tooths with cookies and breads.
The house on Sosa Street where I lived until February of this year was quite a lovely house as evidenced by the two pictures from the bedroom, on the second floor, which I occupied.
Picture 1 shows the ferry that one rides across the river to access Xunantunich. The second picture shows some of the glyphs (Mayan writing) on the side of the main temple at the site. The third picture is one of the smaller buildings at the site shaded by a bit of foliage.
Picture 1 shows musicians in Garifuna dress. Pitcure 2 shows the decorated boats traveling from the sea down the river. The annual celebration includes a re-enactment of the Garifuna's first arrival in Dangriga by boat. The occupants of the boats are wearing traditional dress.
Picture 1 shows the beach front at Placencia, and picture 2 some of the foliage in the area.
This is Sandra, who lives in Santa Marta, where I studied Spanish last summer, with her relative. She had some of us over to her house a number of times while I was living in her village and, on one occasion, made tamales and escabeche. Sandra and her relative came to Belmopan for a Peace Corps workshop in April of this year.
