No more External Schools! And Trips to Walmart

The school year here is over, so I'm not teaching in the rural schools anymore - instead El Nahual (www.languageselnahual.com) is running what amounts to a summer camp evey day, and I teach english classes and crafts classes. Its a lot less hectic - I have access to construction paper and computers, which makes classes a lot easier, plus I'm only teaching five to fifteen kids. El Nahual is also gorgeous, especially for Guatemalan standards. They have a garden with stone tables and benches, and the second floor has a (gasp!) wooden floor and wrap around windows with amazing views of Xela and the Santa Maria Volcano. I still teach at one external school to 7th - 9th graders (wierdly longer school year) but I have more time to plan classes now and theyre a higher level so I have a wider range of options and can do more advanced games.

Jenna took these when we went to Chicabal last weekend.

Credit to Jenna again. Soccer game high in the mountains. 

Yesterday I went to El Cuartito, which is the local gringo cafe bar that has live music every night, and watched the presidential debate with my friend Jenna. Jenna is Finnish and has absolutely no interest in the debate, so we talked over most of it. Every wednesday I go (again) to el cuartitio (theres a group of us that go) and then after we go out salsa dancing. Fridays we go out and do something as well, and saturday usually a group of us go out for dinner. Its such a routine that at this point I just show up at the usual place and dont even check that anyone is coming. I also go to yoga a lot here, and have been learning a lot of random body vocab because of this.. for instance pulgos means big toes.

I've been getting super excited because my mom and sister are arriving next Friday! Cant believe its actually happening and am so excited to show them around, and do touristy stuff ..and make my mom go grocery shopping with me so she I can buy whole wheat pasta, and olive oil, and nutella... (real luxury items around here!) Get ready Mom, we are going to have a big trip to Walmart.

 Of course I'm excited to see my family for other reasons. Theyre just slipping my mind in the aftermath of the trip to Walmart yesterday where I ogled the haagen dasz and ended up just buying milk. Sometimes doing work for no money sucks. A lot.

Hasta Luego!
p.s. please excuse my spelling and lack of punctuation, I'm writing on a spanish keyboard and cannot find things like apostrophes and semi colons.