Scholarship students

Headed to dinner for the final night here. We took a tour of Antigua in the morning then off to meet some of the sponsored students who would be unable to go to school without our help. Our group of MBA's had three students to roam the city with: Alisa, Lesly and Louis. We took them to eat at Pollo Campero, the Guatemalan version on KFC ,then went shopping. They all three helped me haggle with street vendors and communicate with shop sales persons. The kids were so beautiful in every way: beautifully dressed in traditional Mayan clothes (traje), proper and well mannered, polite and genuinely eager to converse with us.

After lunch I took them to get ice cream and the sight of the way their eyes lit up was incredibly emotional for me. Around 2 we headed back towards the square where our time with them would soon be over. Lesly, the 15 year old, walked up to me before we said our goodbyes and handed me a beautiful, rustic looking pot and gave me a big hug and thanked me over and over. After some difficulty over the language barrier, I found out that she had made the pot herself. Tears came to my eyes.

I gave all three kids my email in the hopes that one day, they will get the internet at their school. My hopes are that with the help from others, I might one day be able to talk to these students all the way from Cincinnati! More on it's way!!!