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Published: March 5th 2009
I am in San Pedro in Lago de Atitlan, Guatemala. I spent about a week and a half in Granada, Nicaragua doing a homestay/ spanish course. It was great and I got at ton of really great pictures. The city is really amazing with big colonial buildings. We were there for the end of a poetry festival and got to see a parade, concerts, and tons of daily activities. My host family was really great, but the spanish was really difficult because no one spoke a lick of english. Very hard to explain things when something isn´t understood. Miriam left that same week for Costa Rica before the return flight to Germany. Martin and I gained another traveller, Femke, who was staying with the same family as us. In less than twenty four hours she had bought a ticket and was on the way to Guatemala with the two of us.
We stayed in Guatemala City for a night before heading out to the lake. We got a cab and went to a bus station that the driver said had a bus to Panajachel (on the lake). We waited and waited. Finally a person came and said that the bus to Pana didn´t leave for another three hours from that station. The one we wanted was on the other side of town with the next bus leaving in 15mins. He called a taxi, we gathered our things as fast as we could and ran to the cab. We arrived at the station with a good bit of time to spare. We all got our bags on top of the bus and settled in for the ride.
Arriving in Panajachel I discovered that my camera that Rachel had got me for Christmas was gone. So yeah, that is super. I do have travel insurance, but now I don´t have a camera. I lost the pictures from Granada and the first bus ride through Honduras and El Salvador and some of Guate City. The rest were backed up on a memory stick. There were some terrific pictures lost though.
The lake here is truely amazing and I am having a great time attending another Spanish school. Four hours a day this week with six per day next. the views are amazing and the people are the friendliest I´ve met yet. There are less than four weeks before I return to Rachel and the rest of you. The only pictures I will have from here out are from other people.
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Hi Jack, I lived in that area for about nine months. I lived in Panajachel. It was really beautiful there. If you get a chance, go to Tikal, very important Mayan ruins. Sorry to hear about your camera. Time to get inventive. Glad you're doing so well. "Como esta used? Esta bien, gracias. Et tu, Manuel?" First (and last) lesson in Miss Monahan's Spanish 101, PS #5. Took me 3 years to get that far. Love, Dad PS Something to ponder while riding on those wild bus rides "Why is it one never sees a baby squirrel, just the big ones?"