More Guatemala Stories

I feel like alot has happened since my last post (that could be related to the fact that alot has happened!) This last fin de semana on Friday we went to the fuentes, hot springs, they were way up in the mountains but very relaxing and fun to swim in. When I am able to figure it out I will have to post fotografias of the springs because it was really pretty.

On Saturday we left Xela and took a bus to Lake Atitlan. We stayed at a hotel near lake Atitlan and went sightseeing and shopped in the market ! it was a big market and I remembered my bargaining skills from Kenya which helped! I got some pretty good deals. It was also good Spanish practice...The lake was beautfiul. Other people got sun burnt but I was like a shade magnet so nothing bad... it was interesting becasue the town we stayed in was alot more touristy and therefore different, but I like Xela better with our host mama. We also took a boat across the lake to a little town and went to this beautfiul church... there are alot more indigenous people and the culture was different. When we got back there was this other lady from Canada living in a room next to Jordon and I´s ... that was a surprise! She is nice enough but I liked it better when it was just us two up there and we had all of mama Flors attention!

I got to know some of the other guys on the weekend trip better, they are pretty fun and random. Also it was super windy and the hotel was rickety and we were on the top floor so all night there was banging and it felt like the roof was going to fly off!

Last night a group of us went to the same place to play soccer, it is pretty far so we took a bus on the way there but for some reason we walked all the way back, which took like an hour! So by the time we had walked girls back and returned to our host house (which I am convinced is the farthest) it was like 10, but then we went back out to get dinner cause our host mom had already gone to bed. Also this guy who works had McDonalds had promised to give Jordon his Big Mac tie if we came back at 11... It was nice to go out and get something to eat not to mention that Jordon got an awesome tie for free! I guess the only downside was that I had to do my homework after we got back and we have class early every day.

Yesterday an old man stopped Jordon and I in the street and told us (in English) to ¨go away yankees! get out of here...s$%·¨ I didn´t know what to say so we just kept walking.

I did laundry yesterday! it was super easy, I just took my laundry before class to the place then picked up afterwards all clean and it only cost 4 dollars (whcih sounds liek alot here cause I am used to the cheaper prices, when the guy said ¨that will cost 32 Q¨I was upset and thought it was super expensive cause you can buy so much for that (like two meals at nice restaurants) but then I realized that it is only like a dollar or two more than I pay at school for the machines and way easier!

Anyway today we also went to volunteer at a school for the second time, it was pretty fun playing with the kids, but different than my counselor job at the YMCA. Also today during class my teacher and I teamed up with antoher student and teacher and went to the zoo... it was pretty small but free! I like it when we go on fieldtrips during our class times, it is pretty open and while we have specific grammar things to look at the other times we can just talk about what I want to or going on little ´field trips

I guess that is all for now! I hope to put up some pictures soon!