Pension Bonifaz Hotel Quetzaltenango

... which is more than I can say for any doctor I would have gone to in the states. Crutches however are not free. In fact, they are super expensive. 400 Quetzales, which translates into about 50 buck, which translates into:<br>--renewing a visa in Guatemala city three times<br>--buying 80 cheese pupusas fromthe central part<br>--buying 40 plates of fried chicken and fries<br>--16 salsa dance classes<br>--one months rent at Laguna Chicabel<br>--24 machetes<br>--seven ...

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... English guy from the school and stayed out until 4am. The drunker we became, the more freely we chatted in Spanish to the locals, played darts etc. After 1am, we had to shut all the doors and smoke inside and when the police passed by we had to turn the music off and whisper! The evening ended when i was talking to a Guatemalan who had fought in the civil war in the 70s and was confiding in me regarding all the people he had killed and how he is haunted by each ...

¡Hola amigos!<br><br>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 co-operatively run school literally less than a minutes walk away from our house, which is definitely a good call for ...

... br>you can see the lake from our school, too? It is absolutely incredible.<br><br>Teddy´s teacher is named Jose and is probs in his early twenties, and<br>Susan's teacher is named Elena and is 23 - the same age as us! They are<br>both really awesome and we have lots to talk about. For both of us, the<br>lessons have pretty much consisted of constant conversation in Spanish,<br>with corrections and mini-lessons included when needed. At the 10:30 am<br ...

... After spending nearly 30 hours with her I´m beginning to pick up a Spanish accent when I speak English (unfortunately it comes less easily when I actually speak Spanish - can anyone from England actually roll their "r"s?). <br><br>I have to have conversations with the other female teachers about my "coorrrrleee" hair every break and am now fluent in telling people I get it from my dad and wish I had straight hair. To which they wish they had ...

... cheek. I don't even hate that the streets turn to rivers when it rains and no one is ever on time or I get hollered at everywhere I walk and that the coffee sucks and everything has mayonnaise on it or that it is impossible to find carrots at 6:00 Sunday evening because all the markets are closed. <br><br>So, I wont jump to conclusions and say that I am in officially in love with Guatemala. But I am defiantly crushing. <br><br><br><br>

... we reached a location known as El Mirador. From here, we had our first fabulous view of the volcano, and the path we would take from this point forward. We waited here for another 15-20 minutes, and were able to witness the volcano errupting. This was an amazing sight -- the volcano that, minutes ago, had looked perfectly tranquil began emitting smoke. And more smoke. Although we were still perhaps two miles away (as the crow flies), the erruption was ...

... a break, then classes again from 2 to 4. As with breakfast, the timing for lunch is a little off -- we start lunch, in theory, at 1:30. After class, we have some free time for whatever, then dinner at 7:30. With the number of people coming and going, dinner seems to be about a two hour affair, leaving just enough time to finish homework before going to sleep and starting it all over again.<br><br>So far, our main free-time activity seems to ...