I got into Guatemala City yesterday morning and then had to wait three hours at the bus station for the four hour bus ride to Xela. I was expecting one of those old school buses but it was actually pretty nice. More like a greyhound bus. It had air conditioning and TVs and all for only 75 Q (about $10). I got into Xela after dark and then took a taxi to the school with another American that I met on the bus ride. I got to meet my host family and then had dinner and went to bed.
I didnt sleep very well with all the dogs barking and the roosters cawing and the fireworks at 5:30 in the morning so I've been kind of exhausted all day. Its felt like such an long day and its not even 7 PM yet. Hopefully that means I'll sleep really well tonight. After waking up at 5:30 am I had a breakfast of scrambled eggs and black beans with this drink that is made of hot water, chunks of pineapple, cinnamon, and other floating chunks that I couldn't understand the word for. It was okay. There's another student staying with the same host family as me and he's been here for a week so he showed me the way to the school. I got to meet all of the other students (there's about ten others) and then had my first spanish lesson. I had to take a test to see where I'm at and then we got started. I'm doing a lot of review to start out with because I don't remember everything I've learned and I need to get that down good before I can learn new stuff. We did articulos for like an hour straight, which got pretty boring. Articulos are basically just different ways to say a and the but in Spanish it's a little bit more complicated than that.
For the second half of my lesson we walked around the city for a little while. My teacher helped me change over my money and get my phone set up and then I was pretty much done for the day. After lunch I went back to school to meet a friend and we walked around the city and ended up at a cafe where you can sit on the roof that over looks el parque central. Then we came back to school to watch 127 hours which, by the way, is pretty disgusting. Over all, it was a good first day. Tomorrow we're going to a chocolate factory and the day after that to the hot springs. Sounds like its going to be a fun week :)
so did you like 127 hours? I thought it was good even though the arm-cutting-off part was kinda disturbing. I read that the fake arm they used was really expensive, so they could only do one or two takes of that scene.
ReplyDeleteThe movie was okay, I thought it was a little boring though because it was just him stuck in the rock for pretty much the whole time haha. That's so weird about the fake arm though!
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