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Sorry for the contentless check-ins. I´ll try to work up something for the Report as soon as is humanly possible or as soon as I have time or as soon as I feel like it or sometime. This reminds of both Catch-22, which I´m reading (along side the biography, Bonhoeffer) and Guatemala in general. Just two days ago I had the following conversation, joined in progress and translated from the crappy Spanish, at a new hotel with the grandfather-aged owner, Diego:
Diego: For the week, its 200 Quetzales.
Me: Great. And is there a kitchen I can use?
Diego: No. Sadly, there´s no kitchen.
Me: Ohhhh, hmm, it would be a lot better if there was a kitchen.
Diego: You´d like a kitchen?
Me: Yes, I´d like to be able to prepare some meals here.
Diego: There´s a kitchen. Come with me.
He takes me down one flight of steps into his family´s compound/comlplex and shows us into a fully outfitted kitchen. Whoever used to use this kitchen is not using it.
Me: Oh, this is excellent. This will do just fine.
Diego: You can cook with firewood on this stove.
Me: Oh, firewood...What about that stove? (pointing to a normal-looking gas or electric stove/oven)
Diego: Oh, that stove. Noooo. That stove doesn´t work.
Me: It doesn´t work?
Diego: It doesn´t have gas.
Me: I could get a tank of gas for it. I may be here long enough.
Diego: You could get a tank of gas but the stove doesn´t work.
Me: Oh, it doesn´t work.
Diego: Nope. Do you want to use it?
Me: Yes, I´d like to use it.
Diego: Well you could use it, but it doesn´t work.
Me: I´ll take the room.
Sorry for the contentless check-ins. I´ll try to work up something for the Report as soon as is humanly possible or as soon as I have time or as soon as I feel like it or sometime. This reminds of both Catch-22, which I´m reading (along side the biography, Bonhoeffer) and Guatemala in general. Just two days ago I had the following conversation, joined in progress and translated from the crappy Spanish, at a new hotel with the grandfather-aged owner, Diego:
Diego: For the week, its 200 Quetzales.
Me: Great. And is there a kitchen I can use?
Diego: No. Sadly, there´s no kitchen.
Me: Ohhhh, hmm, it would be a lot better if there was a kitchen.
Diego: You´d like a kitchen?
Me: Yes, I´d like to be able to prepare some meals here.
Diego: There´s a kitchen. Come with me.
He takes me down one flight of steps into his family´s compound/comlplex and shows us into a fully outfitted kitchen. Whoever used to use this kitchen is not using it.
Me: Oh, this is excellent. This will do just fine.
Diego: You can cook with firewood on this stove.
Me: Oh, firewood...What about that stove? (pointing to a normal-looking gas or electric stove/oven)
Diego: Oh, that stove. Noooo. That stove doesn´t work.
Me: It doesn´t work?
Diego: It doesn´t have gas.
Me: I could get a tank of gas for it. I may be here long enough.
Diego: You could get a tank of gas but the stove doesn´t work.
Me: Oh, it doesn´t work.
Diego: Nope. Do you want to use it?
Me: Yes, I´d like to use it.
Diego: Well you could use it, but it doesn´t work.
Me: I´ll take the room.
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