This week has gone by so much faster than last week! I can´t believe that it`s Wednesday already. Yesterday at school we watched Maria Llena de Gracia, or Maria Full of Grace, which is a movie about drug trafficking from Colombia. It`s a pretty intense movie. I`ve seen it before because we watched it in Spanish class in high school. Today in class, my teacher asked me to tell her about the movie, so we got into a conversation about how drugs are a big problem here in Guatemala. She said there are people here in Xela that drive around in Hummers and there`s no way they can afford them so they must be involved with drugs haha. Also during my class there was some guy out in the street talking through a sound system and I asked my teacher what he was talking about. Apparently he was selling medicine out in the street for cheaper then you can buy it in the pharmacy. You don`t need a perscription here for most medicines, so he was out there selling antibiotics and Xanax for like 10Q. So different than in the states.

After lunch today, Tim (the other student living at my homestay) and I walked around Xela exploring for a little while. We walked through some of the market areas and stuff. They sell a lot of clothes from the states for a lot cheaper. And you can buy Pirates of the Carribean 4, and other movies that are still only in theaters, on DVD  for only 5Q.

I feel like my Spanish has definitely improved. Today Tim and I were trying to read a local newspaper and there was an article about Arnold Schwarzenegger because of the affair that hes been having. Apparently the woman is from Xela! Such a small world haha.