Monday, November 13, 2006

Out of Guatemala with a Bang

Mi gente,

I am no longer in the beautiful and exotic country of Guatemala. I have finished my four weeks of spanish and moved on to El Salvador. But before I get into Santa Ana, El Salvador let me recap the last two weeks.

My last week of spanish school I received my fourth spanish teacher, Ana. Ana is the sister of my 3rd spanish teacher so we got along perfectly and she knew where I had left off with Angelica. Friday was the big day for Mark (another Australian student) and my Despedida (going away party) at the school. We had a half day of spanish and then we spent the next 3 hours eating, dancing and listening to Pieter (otherwise known as Distant Mountain - who had just returned from a month at the meditation center fasting and in silence for the last week) read everyone´s future in spanish with tarot cards. After Pieter's fifth reading I decided it was the perfect time to read the speech I had written in spanish. I had written something for everyone and it went over extremely well, except for the fact that I forgot to mention my spanish teacher of the final week Ana (in my defense she proofread my speech so I had purposely left her out and was going to put her part in later, then I forgot).

The next night Pieter and I cooked a Thai curry chicken stirfry for my family. I think they all pretended to like it while they wiped the perspiration from their foreheads. I figured they were used to hot spices and it wouldn't be a problem for them, but maybe they weren't used to the change in spice. Either way it was a great way to end my stay with my family and the next day I left for Antigua where I had originally begun.

Cristobal

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