Places Visited:- Spanish School, Fuertes Georginas, Local football game (Xelaju MC) We have come to Xela which is 2300 meters above sea level a large mountain city for 2 main reasons to brush up on our Spanish and because a lot of the schools have volunteer work to coincide with our lessons. As we arrived on a Sunday we had to be quick to find a school for the start of the week. We went around a few and in the end choose Madre Tierra as it was perfect. Great volunteer oportunities from working with children, Reforestation, house building and wildlife projects. The school itself was an old colonial building with a large beautiful courtyard with trees and flowers, a perfect evironment to be relaxed and learn Spanish. The owners Gaby and Josh made us both
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