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First week and Trip to Lago Atitlan

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June 12th 2007
Buenas dias! Wow, well what a week it´s been!! I have had spanish lessons every day from 8am to midday one to one and it´s intensive....verbs, vocab and more grammar for four hours. Then off to the market place where I pìck up the "chicken" bus to my school in the little town of Itzapa. ¨(I still haven´t worked out why they´re called chicken buses yet!) The school where I am tea ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Western Highlands » San Marcos La Laguna

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The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experience... ... read more