El fin de semana y la segunda semana

So since this is the beginning of a new week, I get a new teacher. At first, I really wished I had requested to stay with my teacher from last week, Norma, because my new teacher, also named Norma, is a little bit harder to understand and she goes through material a little bit quicker, but after my first full day with her, I think she'll be a good teacher too. It'll just take a little bit of time to readjust again. She also gave me more homework!

This weekend it rained a lot! After lunch on Saturday it was pouring so hard that I didn't want to leave the house. So instead, I hung out with Analy (my "sister"). She's eleven so we sewed some clothes for her Barbies and then she tried to teach me how to dance and then we went to the tienda to buy snacks and made strawberry and banana smoothies and watched a movie.

On Sunday I went out to eat with some friends and then afterwards we decided we wanted to go see a movie. We had to take a microbus, which is basically just a big van, to the area of the city with the mall. It was such a commerical area with a Walmart and a Taco Bell and the mall and everything. It was so different from every other part of Guatemala that I've seen. We were hoping that the movie was in English with Spanish subtitles, because sometimes the movies here are like that, but we had no such luck. If we had gone earlier, we could've seen ¿Que Paso Ayer? 2 (The Hangover 2) in English, but we were too late for that. So I watched Piratas del Caribe and I didn't understand the majority of it, but it was still fun. It was weird because after we bought our tickets we had to wait in line outside of the theater until just before the movie started. Then they let us all in while the previews were playing and we had to find our seats in the dark. Then, half way through the movie, it just stopped. We thought that the electricity went out because we could hear that it was raining from inside the theater. But, then we realized that it was just an intermission haha.

This week for activities, there's a lecture on the Mayan culture and worldview, another movie, salsa dancing lessons, another hike up a different mountain to see Laguna de Chicobal and a trip to the beach. I think I'm going to skip the salsa dancing lesson haha.