Antigua, Guatemala

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Paragraph 1: If I have not spoken with you recently this will help catch you up on my life. Skip if you've seen me in the last two months.
After finishing my two years with Teach For America in Chicago I travelled this summer to mexico, belize and guatemala. While scuba diving, walking on lava, and visiting mayan ruins in the middle of the jungle I slowly began to realize that a month of travel was not quite sufficient. So a week before medical school was to start in Colorado I called the head of admissions and we both agreed that I should defer medical school for the next year and continue my travels throughout central and south america in order to learn spanish. Then for the next two months I lived at home in Evergreen, CO killing myself everyday in a warehouse for two cents an hour. But getting up at 4 everyday and being at work by 5 finally paid off and after two months I, kind of, have enough money to travel for the next ten months.

Paragraph 2: Antigua, Guatemala
After taking an all night flight from Denver to LA to Guatemala City I finally arrived at 5:05 am. I get out of the airport to try and find a bus to Antigua and the guy standing next to me asks me where I'm going. I tell him Antigua and he says he lives in Antigue and his wife is picking him up in 5 minutes if I want a free ride. So, basically I already love this country. I am staying at a the Black Cat Hostel and withing an hour made twenty new best friends, at least for the day.

Paragraph 3: San Marcos, Guatemala
Today I am leaving for San Marcos where tomorrow there will be a full moon and the hippiness will commence. San Marcos is on Lago de Atitlan and you stay in pyramid shaped huts. For the full cycle of the moon you stay in this commune and do 2 hours of yoga in the morning, learn how to read people's auras, read tarot cards, and all other kind of super hippi stuff. And the last week of the moon cycle is spent in silence and you fast for the week. I don't know if its for me, but I'm going to check it out. There may be two many gringos there and I'll end up not learning a work of spanish.

So that's my life. Its pretty rough so far, but I'm hanging in there.

Cristobal

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