My Year of Living Dangerously

Moving to Guatemala resulted in learning many things I never expected.

The author learns to haggle. All photos by Christina Hoag.

The first morning of my new life in Guatemala I electrocuted myself.

I’d arrived late the previous night with my Guatemalan boyfriend with the optimistic plan to live there. The next morning, I stepped into the shower in our cheap hotel, eyeing an odd contraption on the shower head. It had a heat setting so I figured…