After the first weekend in Guatemala

After I had written my entry yesterday it was time to go home. Being Sunday here means that students don't get any meals served only some families will put cornflakes on the table in the morning or if they have a family get together than we sometimes profit from it as well and get some sort of dinner. In our case we went to the local bakery and got some fresh bread and bought some juice. The thing is here that we drink lots of water and tea and that gets a bit boring after a while. Juice, smoothies or so are a real treat than! Some of us long here for sweets and they have different sorts here than we are used but they aren't bad. Chocolates as Camilla found out today aren't always so delicious since they have partly melted and than gone hard again and look really odd! Since Chelsea and me didn't have much sleep we decided not to go into Antigua but crashed into our beds around 9.15pm. Originally we were debating if should go for a poker game but decided that we will see everyone again Tuesday since locals and foreigners go out to " Monoloco" being ladies night. We needed our beauty sleep and wanted to be fresh for work and class.
I have a new teacher now called Carmen. The first two hours were fun and I had the feeling that I wasn't doing too bad. After the break though I had the feeling that the words were all in my mind but they just wouldn't come out right. By the time I came home for lunch I was beat. Now that we have changed to morning classes there are more people to chat with and new arrivals are also in between. One more German girl who is really nice called Susanne who arrived Friday and had no student in her family and therefore got dumped in the deep end. She had a kind of lonely weekend so she is with us right now and we show here what little information we have gathered so far. I had lunch and unwound in front of the TV. My family has got cable so we have all sort of channels like FOX, HBO and even a German channel. The funny thing is that on some channels you can switch the language from English to Spanish and vice versa. If you switch to English than you end up with Spanish undertitles which is really funny because they aren't even accurate. At 2pm we started walking from door to door to collect everyone. Here it is common that no one has door bells you just knock on the door or gates. In the bus we met some more students from our school and we went to Antigua together. We split up though since we all needed to do different things. Today is the first time that I actually bought anything. Found some earrings (had not taken any jewelery with me) and a little bag over the shoulder in which I put a pen, camera, money , house key etc. so far I have tried to always put things in pockets put only one pair of trousers can handle everything. I had to bring some film away for development an had a conversation about how much that costs and how long it takes to get developed. Gee, my words at first didn't want to come out but in the end it was okay. The same thing for asking prices for a SIM card and trying to find out what provider offers what. Seems that you can only text in Guatemala and than the only other consideration would be if you want to call the US since one seems to be cheaper. No we just want a phone to text friends or be called. I got around to change money so we aren't broke anymore since Chelsea and me help each other it. After Ema heard that we were close to being broke since we had missed the opening hours of the bank she also told us that we could borrow from her and pay her back the next day. Somehow all the others had disappeared so now I am with Bianca, Susanne and Tobias and guess what they are ll Germans - how boring! Once I am done here I need to buy a SIM card and get the film and buy a new one. No guys, don't worry no one has stolen my digital camera. Chelsea had forgotten hers one night in the bathroom of a bar and went back but it was already gone so she bought a real cheap one here. Now we are both curious how the pictures turn out. Tonight it is dinner at 7pm and than I want to have a look at my Spanish book and do my homework. Afterward maybe watch a bit TV, have a chat and go of to bed.

Seni, Du kannst mir auch emails hier schicken. Ich weisse Deine email Addresse leider nicht und habe sie auch nicht in meiner mailbox sitzen, aber ansonsten ist es claudia_boegel@yahoo.com! Du wirst lachen, aber ich hatte sogar auf meinem deutschen Handy gesehen, das jemand angerufen hatte, weil ich eine text hatte mit den Details, aber in dem ganzen Tumult ist es dann irgendwie untergehen, sorry!