One more day down!

So I have one more day of school under my belt. I am learning quickly (not anywhere near being fluent…but it HAS only been 2 days!) and am really enjoy spending my mornings with my teacher. Today, when I was wrote the word ano (“year” in Spanish) I forgot the accent over the “n”. Elena (my teacher) started cracking up! I was trying to ask her how many students she taught in one year. I couldn’t figure out why that question was so funny. So, I asked Elena “why are you laughing at me?” She quickly showed me in my Spanish/English dictionary that ano without the accent means anus. I had asked her how many students she teaches in one anus. Oops!

I am learning that there are so many subtle differences in words and pronunciations that you have to be really careful how you say something or you can get yourself I a lot of trouble!

I also met some other students today that filled me in about a free 45 minute session at night where you can sit with other students and an instructors and basically (excuse my expression dad) shoot the shit in Spanish. It is just a cool way to practice with other beginners. Everyone in my little group is leaving at the end of the week. They are all in their late 30’s and 40’s and have no interest in hanging out with me outside of class. So basically I am still having no luck finding cool people to do stuff with.

However, I was invited to go to this bar and watch this Australian guy play the guitar at 9, but it is PITCH BLACK outside and I would have to walk about 15 minutes to get there…call me afraid, but I have had at least 10 Guatemalan men ask me to live with them, or be their girlfriend in the last 3 days… don’t worry Dave…I just laugh and say “lo siento…you tengo un novio…el esta muy guapo!” which roughly means “I’m sorry…I have a boyfriends…he is very handsome!”

So until I move into a hostel I think that I will continue going to bed at 8 p.m…spending my afternoons doing homework and napping…eating the strange food that my host family makes me…and being the loner that I am! I keep telling myself that I will be very well rested!

I will try and take some more pictures of school and the lake…I still haven’t gone for a swim. It has been raining during the day here, so there isn’t much to do. Hopefully it will clear up for Alex so that we can do some fun stuff while she visits!

So sorry for the downer blog post. I am trying to see the upside of it all. Most of the people that I meet tell me that the first week is always the hardest. There isn’t much to do and you are very limited with a homestay! So I am keeping my head up J Until next time amigos…ADIOS!

AH—P.S.—I ate a really odd vegetable today called a Pacaya. It is grown at Volcan Pacaya…it was oddly satisfying. I ate it with a tortilla (duh…that’s all I eat here) and an avocado! Look it up…pretty cool! I will definitely try and find it in the states!

P.S.S. I am writing my blog posts the night before I post them…so if they seem a day off, well, they are! It’s one of the only things that keeps me occupied at night…so pretend that it’s yesterday!

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