Quetzaltenango Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

¡Hola amigos!

I have been neglecting my travel blog writing, time it seems, flies extremely quickly when you are staying in one place. We are still in Xela, having spent 3 intensive weeks learning spanish for 5 hours a day one on one with our Guatemalan teachers. Its been a really amazing opportunity, and the school (El Portal) is a small...

Mom, are you still reading this? Why?

After a week of intensive Spanish study, it was finally the weekend! This, clearly, meant that we should sign up for an activity with an only-Spanish-speaking guide. Clearly a good way to relax a bit :) So, Saturday morning at 5 am found us emptying our backpacks, and repacking with only a single chan...

Hola and Hello Friends and Family!

This entry isn't as cool as my last, but I did hike with my roommates up yet another volcano this past Saturday!

This volcano is dormant, and so deeply asleep that it's crater has become a lake. This lake is called Laguna Chicabal, and it is the sacred chillaxin' spot for the Quiché God, I'x, whic...

When I woke up at 6 am it was 65' Fahrenheit in the room. Not too bad. Last night was not as noisy as Sunday night, but I did hear lots of cars, trucks, and people going by on the street. My room is probably only 3 feet from the street. I woke up twice during the night, but was able to go right back to sleep. I read a little and did some more ho...

We´ve been pretty busy since last week: a lot has happened. Friday after school Megan, the two other girls at the school Melissa and Angie, and I, went to the "Fuentes Georginas", which I went to last time I was here, and is basically a natural sort of jacuzi, with hot water seeping of out the hillside. It´s been half paved and shaped imto a sor...

Deja Vu, A Stomach of Doubt and a Mouth of Sulphur At 6pm on Wednesday I was on top of the world and in love with live, by 8 pm the same evening I felt as though I had hit a wall. As Wednesday become Thursday and that too changed to Friday, I began to feel that the muscular pain and tiredness had some external cause yet to show itself. As it tra...

Hi and Happy August to all! In my last blog I failed to wish the West Des Moines Methodist Mission Possible Team best of luck and to have a hard working and rewarding experience. I was thinking about all of you last week! Last week I got my third cold here and this one was much worse than before. Both a head and chest cold complete with coughing...

A taxi driv** was waiting at the station and once I had convinced Mary to come with me so that she could at least call h** school from the guest house, we hopped in. I gave the driv** an index card that had the address of the guest house and the school and told him they w**e near each oth** in Zone 1. Of course, what I didn't do was negotiate th...

Got alright room (bit minging) in Casa Argentina hostel, bumped into Sharon Cooke again, then went out on the town - well we'd just had a dry week and it was Friday night!! Visted a couple of bars before everything started shutting. We wanted more so asked some people in the street where we could find a bevy shop. They showed us where to go and ...

¡Hola neustra Familia y Amigos! Today has been an eventful and successful day. After enrolling last night at our Spanish school, Utatlan, (http://www.xelapages.com/utatlan) we started this morning bright and early at 8am, and had 4 1/2 hours of tuition - our brains are full (lleno)! Usually the classes are one-on-one, but we decided to get taugh...