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What Colour is Your House?
If I don’t know, how I will find you?
If you’ve never lived in Central America or Mexico you probably don’t know why the colour of a house is so important.
I had no clue until I moved here.
It’s more so important in Mexico than it is in Guatemala. Trying to give directions to your house in Guatemala takes about 15 minutes as you have to describe stores, churches, stray dogs, chicken carts and taco stands.
It can go something like this:
“After you cross the yellow bridge turn left and there’s an ice cream shop that’s sometimes open, it’s a wooden shed really and then there’s a little lane and 4 dogs should be sleeping at the corner, then look for the tall yellow building with two balconies, go past all that and then you’ll pass another little lane and a ceviche stand if she’s there that day and keep walking and then you’re going to turn down a small dirt path just past the tienda across from the church and follow that for about 3 minutes but if…
