Back to school!

We´ve been in Guatemala for a week now and the time is really flying by! We are taking spanish classes at the Cooperative School, and loving it! It´s very frustrating to be in a culture when you can´t really communicate with people, or ask questions, or have conversations. So, it´s a relief to start working on our Spanish skills. After just a week we´re already seeing an improvement!

My teacher however, is under the impression that I come from a very weird family! She was asking about my parents and what they do. I told her that my dad does lots of fighting, and that he enjoys gangs and that he is going to shoot a lion and eat it! She thinks we are muy extraño! Perhaps once I learn more words, I will explain what I meant. I´m having trouble keeping all my vocabulary straight, and make a LOT of mistakes! But we are getting better! And tomorrow, we are going to move in with local families, so that should definitely help us with our speaking.

Everyday this week, we´ve had classes for three hours in the morning and then spend our afternoons hanging out with other travellers we´ve met and just relaxing around town. It rains consistently every afternooon/evening, and the last few days it´s been raining even more. So, we don´t do a whole lot after we´re done with our class! This morning though, the teachers at our spanish school played soccer against the teachers at another spanish school. We met up with a few of our friends from the school, and then hopped in the back of a pickup with our team to get to the game. Although it was really rainy, the game was so much fun! There´s a nice new turf stadium in San Juan, another city on the lake, and the game was played there. Unfortunately, our team did not win :( Today, only the male teachers and students got to play, but next week, the female teachers and students get to play, so maybe we can redeem ourselves then!