Blogs from San Marcos La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean - page 4

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 teaching is in a little town called Itzapa which is 50 minutes away from the town where I´m staying (Antigua). The bus goes through lots of little towns picking up and dropping off people, it will stop anywhere and is often full with three to a seat. Once we arrive in Itzapa it´s a 10 minute walk to the school which consists of 6 ... read more

So, it has been a while since I blogged.... It has been an incredibly busy month of relaxing on Lago de Atitlan, taking it easy at Semuc Champey, seeing Tikal at our leisure, chilling in Antigua, and hanging out in Coban. After the last installment, we booked down to San Cristobal in Mexico, where Aden got sick, and then we moved on to San Pedro on the Lago and met Morgan. San Pedro was pretty cool. However, we found ourselves going over to San Marcos everyday to go swimming at these really cool cliffs. Aden and I were working on our dives off the 5 m cliff, and all of us were jumping the 10 m one. It was sweet. There was this naked dude there named Chard -- this really BIG hippie from California. Dear ... read more

ENGLISH ...No, not us! The folk doing moon worship in the reconnection centre and the ones sitting under plastic pyramids. Oh and the ones who've done so much yoga their heads have gotten stuck up the asses. Only kidding! There were pyramids though! We're at Lake Atitlan in a place called San Marcos, in hotel Aaculaax, in the Mirador suite and very sweet it is! This is more like Christmas. In fact this is our Christmas gift to us. Kind of Christmas (a slight return). A beautiful view, from up on the hill, over looking the lake. We're so high up we can't hear the barking dogs nor the ohming of the hippies at the water's edge. It's beautiful up here! Dotted around the gorgeous ethereal body of water are a number of villages populated by ... read more