So, after nearly 6 years, I've decided I should probably get important things like business cards which means having a logo which means making a logo which means designing a logo. And since I'm not very good at drawing what I see in my head, I talked to an old high school friend about it. I haven't heard back from her (but she wasn't optimistic that she'd be able to do it from where she's at anyway). Today I saw an ad for someone who is here in Guatemala doing graphic design, and that's probably the more economic way of doing this anyway since living costs are lower here. I sent her a message and she's optimistic about the project...and gave me a quote at the very maximum of what I can pay and still eat this month. I might save half the money this month and then have her do it next month if I can't find anything more in the budget.
Also after nearly 6 years, I attended my first funeral in Guatemala yesterday. I didn't know the young man (age 23) very well, but I taught his younger sister English for a few years, and she asked me to be there. So, I went. The funeral was 4 hours long, but it felt good to show up and support people going through the completely unexpected event of burying their son. I was really nervous about going because I had never been to a funeral before, but fortunately (perhaps?) the young man who died was good friends with a young man who is associated with our family, and the deceased's family had asked him to be one of the people who carries the coffin; so, I attended the funeral with him and made the entire situation easier on both of us.
And then this morning my handsomer half called me to inform me that his uncle has passed away. If he can get off work, we'll be attending that funeral as well; so I guess it's a good thing I got some practice going to funerals.
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