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Some think that being here is like being in paradise, the truth is that it is a very quiet place.

You Can not find all the material things you need but you may find yourself. 

Here the boats, the mountains, the hills, the houses, and the waterfall are so quiet, that you can get lost deep in your thoughts. 

Here indigenous people are friendly and you have a unique view. 

See and get lost in the clouds and colors in this beautiful place, a place that you will not find anywhere else in the world, Santa Cruz la Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala is my home. 

written by: Estela Simaj

Who

When I was on the boat a man sat next to me, I was busy and did not see who it was.
Can I read with you? he asked me.
When I saw he! He was really cute and handsome, his smile was great.
Are you from around here? he Asked .
I said No and i do not know you.
At that moment he looked at me and said: do you want to eat with me?
I think he knew that I realy liked to eat, then i answered: "sure, tomorrow I'll tell you the place to eat.
After that talk I never saw him again.
I wake up every morning with the illusion that I w
ill see  the person I met yesterday.
wrritten by: Estela Simaj 

Girl

Lucia was a very intelligent girl. She liked school, she always imagined that she would continue studying.
 Lucia wanted to be a great teacher.
Education in the village of Lucia was not good, she married when she was 15, she finished primary school but not secondary.

Lucia´s mother thought that women were only good for serving the husband. Lucia was sad, when she had her first child,

She understood that history had to change.
Lucia and her husband thought that education was important because it would change society.
This story is the story of many women in Santa Cruz.

Wrriten by: Estela Simaj 

The most beautiful woman

Frank had coffe this morning and he went for a walk on the seashore. 

Frak´s house was a light house, it was lonely like him. 

Frank spent his life in books and watching boats and he did not believe in love. 

Frank was not interested in love, one day he was walking when he saw a beautiful woman sitting on a rock in the sea. 

He thought it was not possible for a woman to be on that lonely island, when he tried to approach her, she disappeard. 

He did not sleep that night and the days passed, he forgot about her. 

Frank went to walk again and saw her again. 

She looked toward the sea, Frank ran to talk to her, but she disappeared. 

Frank could not forget the sweet, wonderful, most beautiful woman in the world. 

The days passed Frank went to sit on the stone where she saw beautiful woman, the waves were big, bigger and biggest. 

The waves dragged Frank in to the sea.

Frank saw his beloved at sea, it was a beautiful mermaid. 

Frank did not come out of the sea. 

Moral: The impossible love can be possible perhaps in another life. 

Wrriten by: Estela Simaj

Complicated Love

It was a rainy november afternoon, Fatima looked out over the mountains and Lee looked at her in the rear view of the car.

Lee asked Fatima if she was fine and she said yes, she could not tell Lee that she was sad because they were arriving at the airport. Fatima did not have time to tell Lee that she loved him.

The night before Lee said that he was looking for someone like Fatima to share life and love, In that moment Fatima said she had a boyfriend because she wanted to be honest with him and she wanted to explain the situation.

Lee´s expression changed and he became cold and arrogant and he did not want to know anything else about Fatima.

Fatima was beginning to fall in love with Lee but he had a complicated heart and did not want to love anymore.

Fatima wanted Lee to let the feelings flow and give her the chance to get to know each other better, but he had a complicated heart.

On that rainy afternoon in november Fatima took the plane and flew away.  Every day she thinks of Lee.

In that moment Fatima fell in love with a complicated man who never writes her and lives far away, Fatima can only see Lee when she closes her eyes.

Written by: Estela Simaj

Colorful Love

On a beatiful hill in Santa Cruz La Laguna existed a forest full of butterflies, each one had a unique and beautiful color.

Blue Butterfly was in love with yellow butterfly but yellow buttefly was racist and did not want to get together with another butterfly.

One day yellow butterfly went to the lake to drink water, but its wings got wet and it fell in to the lake, then blue butterfly came to rescue yellow butterfly and from that time on yellow butterfly was very grateful and fell in love with blue butterfly.

Yellow butterfly understood that racism was not good, what is important is true love.
Yellow butterfly and blue butterfly loved each other until they died together.

Written by: Estela Simaj

The Rose

One a hill there were many roses.

The most beautiful, the sweetest and the highest was the white rose.
Other roses were envious of the white rose.

One day a dog came up to smell the white rose, other roses laughed at the white rose.

The white rose thought she was ugly and she was sad.
She realized that the dog had a long hair anda could not see her.

She saw that the dog´s eyes were cute and his hair was soft.

The dog sat in front of the white rose a  very handsome man came unexpectadly "Max what happened? what you find? Said the man.

The dog barked and began to smell the white rose, the man said that rose was the most beautiful, "i want to take it home and put it in our garden".

The white rose was frightened but the man pulled carefully rose anda took her home.
A week later the man returned to see if he could get more toses, but the roses were dead.

Moral: Envy can be lethal

Written by: Estela Simaj

Squirrel

A squirrel fell in love with a cat, the squirrel knew that it was an impossible love but every day he visited the cat to play and be friends.

The cat had a boyfriend but also began to fall in love with the squirrel, little by little the love became strong between them the cat and the squirrel were both happy, each of them lived in different worlds, the cat in a house and the squirrel in the mountain.

The life of the squirrel was not easy because the people hunted him boy.

Every day was a miracle that the squirrel come to the house of the kitten.

Ona day the squirrel did not return and the very desperate cat went out to look for him when the cat arrived at he house of the squirrel she began to cry.

Somebody had burned down the mountain and the whole family of the squirrel anda other animals had died.

Since that day the cat did not return to her house, but went to the mountains, the cat had a broken heart anda hated the man who killed all the animals of the forest.

On that day the cat became a wild cat.

Written by: Estela Simaj

Sky Star

A star from the sky fell in love with a star from the lake.

They merged at the moment of seeing each other, thanks to the full moon they could be seen each night.

One day the sky star wanted to talk to the lake star but she never answered.

One day the sky star  could not stand the silence any longer and decided to go down to see the lake

star, but never could see it because the lake star was only the reflection of the star in the sky.

This is how the star died of love inside lake Atitlán.

Written by: Estela Simaj