Lucas Skywalker

A little judicious cropping might help, but I don't feel like going through Photoshop.

This is Lucas, nightgroundskeeper of the Hotel Uxlabil in San Juan La Laguna, with what appear to be lightsabers. I teased him about being Luke Skywalker and it turned out his name really was Lucas. He was trying to help us find keys that Esteban misplaced in his backpack, as it turned out. Also to help us get to the hotel, which was about 100 yards through some pasture and a field of milpa (corn).

Lucas may be a nighttime groundskeeper at a hotel, with only a smattering of elementary education, but he speaks Spanish very well (many Guatemalans only speak a variant of a Maya language, like K'iche or, in the case of the folks around San Juan, Tzut'ujil) and his daughters have all gone on to university and professional jobs. The people I met, through Heifer and not, were extremely motivated, with high work ethics and entrepreneurial minds.