Two interesting discoveries

On Saturday I did some mad shopping. It was my biggest spending day of my trip so far. I spent a total of $45. Guatemala is cheap.
The day offered me two bloggable events:
Talking to a woman who had a handicrafts/souvenirs stand near an Antigua church, I found out that both she and the two other women there had been helped by the God's Child Project. They seemed to have a positve view of it, and the woman (Isabel) even asked me if the kids who attend school at the Dreamer Center have to buy a lot of paper, presumably thinking of the education of her own son (who was standing right there). Unfortunately, I told her that that was a question for the project, not for me, because I wasn't sure. Kind of stupid of me. I hardly needed to give her another hurdle to getting her kid in elementary school, especially since after a bit of thought I feel certain that the kids attend school totally free of charge. Aside from that conversation, I also taught her some words in English. She asked me to. I just taught her ''purse'' and ''pen'' and a couple other things she sells. I am thinking she wanted those words for when foreign tourists come by. Before I left, I bought some stuff from her stand. Hopefully our encounter was profitable for her, because it was interesting for me.
Later, I was beebopping around a used book store and audibly gasped when I found Roxanne Henke's After Anne. For those who don't know, Roxy Henke is an author from my town. In terms of popularity, she's not quite Stephen King, so it was a cool surprise to find a Wishek book in Antigua. I was pretty excited about it, so of course I told the shopkeeper about Wishek, showed him the book, and told him I know where Roxy Henke lives. I told him we are related (through two marriages). It is tiresome to say ''It's a small world'' but not tiresome at all to experience those small world moments. First Stacy Schaffer in Guatemala. Now After Anne. What next? Fingers crossed for a Wishek Locals jersey.