Travel Blog | spanishschool http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/spanishschool/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from spanishschool en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:03:25 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:03:25 +0000 "Itchy" Spanish Language Schools Guide Hi my dear readerThere are lots of things that I can write about my daily life in Xela but there is only one real urgent topic fleas They've been bugging me a lot and it's getting worse and worse. Now that I counted number of bites on my body have at least 24 bites. 7 on right hand and arm. 8 on left arm and hand. 3 on neck and face. 6 on legs. They seemed to lik http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-12846.html "Happy family" Spanish Language Schools Guide Hi my dear readerIn order to get to know host families for ConeXion Xela I'm living with one family after another every week. This is the way I've gotten to know many Spanish teachers last year and I'm doing the same with host families now. It's been 5 days living with Morales family and I'm satisfied here. No they don't have experience of welcoming a foreign stud http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-12904.html "Doa Esperanza" Spanish Language Schools Guide Yesterday I visited Doa Esperanza Doa is commonly used substitution for Seora or Mrs. here in Guatemala with Mario who is one of the teachers of ConeXion Xela. Mario was helping me shop around for a cellphone. We were a bit tired walking around so much and since we were around her house we decided to pay her a visit. Doa Esperanza welcomed us warmly as usual a http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-13456.html "Cell phone" Spanish Language Schools Guide Today I have my Telefnica cell phone on top of my desk. It's not the tiniest model in the market but it still does makes me feel the speed of technology. This little gadget that I bought yesterday has dimension of about 2.5 inches x 1 inch x 13 inch. If I remember correctly a cellphone like this had price over 300 5 years ago. Now I just paid about 45 and came http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-13700.html "La Madrastra" Spanish Language Schools Guide I like watching soap operas. It's something that I acquired about a month ago when I was staying at my friend's apartment. He had the cable and even though he didn't speak Spanish the cable came with programs in Spanish since there is a big Spanish speaking population in the US. And when I was changing channels I heard a song by Laura Pausini and the soapopera with http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-14173.html "La Madrastra 2" Spanish Language Schools Guide Today I'll write about La Madrastra from business point of view. What they keep saying is Don't miss the final episodes... Don't miss the final week of La Madrastra... for past 3 weeks I think. After investing more than one month of time watching it I do want to watch the conclusion of the program. And the another thing that they do is to start the new show before http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Quetzaltenango/blog-14377.html