15.07.2009 Busy, busy, busy!!! After another eight hour marathon of Spanish lessons Katrin and I had a very busy evening. After the lessons we had a few minutes left to use the Internet before the school closed. Then we ran about to have my phone - which I bought in Australia and couldn't use since - unlocked. At the phone store I got a new address for my adapter and was really excited to finally have found one. Actually Katrin brought one from Switzerland which didn't work either but works now in combination with the new one. Now I can finally [View Full Entry]

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14.07.2009 It's going to be a tough week Because Katrin and I signed up for the weekend trip to Semuc Champey - which is going to start on Thursday morning - we have to take our lessons earlier. We are going to miss two hours on Thursday and another 5 on Friday. Therefore Vivi and I scheduled to study eight hours today and tomorrow. During the brake I had to go home, get my dirty clothes and bring them to the laundry place. It was all a little hectic, but I needed to get my washing done and when else would [View Full Entry]

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We were greeted by Karina from ActionAid and Mario from Oxlaju, when they picked us up at our hotel in Flores. We had been corresponding with Karina to organise our visit to El Mango and the surrounding communities supported by ActionAid, so it was nice to finally meet her. Mario, who is an indigenous man from San Benito, helps the communities that we were to visit and besides being our driver for the day, he was also our translator (into Spanish), as the people at the communities only speak Q'echi. It was a 3 hour drive, mostly on dirt road to [View Full Entry]

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11.07. - 12.07.2009 Lago Atitlán After a tough week of studies it was time for my first weekend to start. I joined a trip to Lago Atitlán organized by the school. We left by a private bus and the journey only took about two hours. When we got there the rooms were distributed to the students. At first I was a bit worried that we could not choose ourselves who we wanted to share with, but it turned out that I got a room to myself :) A few minutes after arrival it was time to take off for those who [View Full Entry]

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13.07.2009 A new week at school Last Friday I was a bit disappointed, because I thought that I haven't progressed too much with my Spanish during the first week of studies. But what did I expect? It's not possible (ok I've seen an exception on TV but let's say for an average human being) to learn a language within three weeks. Today I had a hard time to get into Spanish again after speaking English all weekend. But once I got my brain focused on the target language I noticed, that this week I had less problems to express myself and [View Full Entry]

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we have visited tikal for the past two days. we really like it here and I will come back here again and recommend this area for a great family vacation. The kids would love to be in a real Jungle with real Monkeys and wonderfull birds and great big plants. You can climb on the temples as you see in our photos if we get this right! [View Full Entry]

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10.07.2009 Going out or not?! Today for the first time I didn't want to getting up. Not that I didn't feel like going to school. But I was just so so tired. Every single day here is so packed. I go to school, I speak Spanish, I meet new people, I try new things... there are so many impressions to process and I never have time to myself to just sit down, relax and think about the wonderful time I have here... Besides, I was a little sore from the killer yoga class last night! All I wanted to do today [View Full Entry]

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Rejsebrev 4 Søren Hansen, Antigua, Guatemala, juni 2009 Livet (og døden) i Guatemala. En god måde at træne sit spansk, eller holde det ved lige er at læse aviser, og det gør jeg da også jævnligt. Der findes eksemplarer i BT/ Ekstra Bladet-format der typisk har en forside med historier om bestialske drab eller katastrofer af en eller anden art. Det kan være lidt skræmmende at læse sig gennem 5-6 sider om forskellige drab og ulykker i landet som bliver penslet ud i fotos og detaljer. I en tid med ”bandekrig” i Danmark, findes der selvfølgelige uhyggelige historier i begge [View Full Entry]

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Antigua, Chichicastenango, Panajachel Met een shuttlebus van Semuc Champey via Coban naar Antigua.. Daar naar een goedkope hostel gegaan om mijn tassen af te zetten en op het gemak rondgewandeld in het oude centrum van Antigua. De straten zijn gemaakt van kasseien, de huizen oud en de gebouwen authentiek. Er hangt een rustige sfeer in de lucht, iedereen is vriendelijk en er lopen veel toeristen rond. De volgende morgen besluit ik om de chivabus, chickenbus van locals naar Chichicastenango te nemen.Het is namelijk zondag en dan is er markt. Ik moet 2 bussen nemen om er te komen. De e [View Full Entry]

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