Uno semana finito

Well, we finished one week of language school.  45 hours of instruction.  Our brains are seriously oatmeal at this point.  Wil has started to loose his English and hasn't quite got his Spanish so basically is unable to communicate sometimes which provides the girls and I with lots of laughter.
All four of us have bonded with our maestras.  We have been on 3-4 "excursions" with them.  We traveled to Chimaltenango to tour a working Guatemalan dairy farm on Friday.  That was really cool.
Today, Saturday, we toured a mountain near Antigua.  It was really beautiful.  We can't post pics from here - internet toooooo slow and we don't have the right tools.  We will do that when we get home.

We are exhausted.  It is 7:45 p.m. on a Saturday night and we are showered and heading to bed.
We will only be studying 6 hours per day this next week.  I will be curious to see how that changes our experiences.  It is pretty weird to spend 8 solid hours talking to a stranger.  I'm pretty sure that I have never spent 8 solid hours sitting at a table talking to Steve!   I have grown particularly close to my instructor.  Ella se llama Fide.  She is a traditional Guatemalan with an amazing view of life.  Life is so different here in so many many ways.

Currently it is raining with thunder here and the temperature is chilly.  Our host house doesn't have a roof (techo) over the main part of the house so rain is really interesting.  It really is like just being outside enjoying the shower and the lightening show.  It is beautiful here where every living plant blooms and mountains surround you.  We walk everywhere we go so we feel so much more a part of the community.  All four of us love it here.

Buenos Noches.