more catch up ...

Thursday: School and I wasn´t up to my usual things so we did lots of talking and played scrabble for the second part - I won against the teachers!!! After lunch we went to Antigua to hang out again ... at night we went to La Sala and were there for a while. I met Robert who is from Germany and we chatted for a while; saw him at the exercusion but thought he was Dutch since he was hanging with George. I spoke to Elmer at work and he was a bit mad that I hadn´t called him but than again he hadn´t called me either ... anyway we agreed to meet later on. He showed up at 2am in La Sala with his colleagues. The funny part is Elmer is about my height while his colleagues are partly smaller than me and that is strange looking down on people. I got to meet them and all but the music was all wrong and we didn´t dance. Like I said I can´t wait that this town goes back to normal because they usally have a live band that plays Salsa, merengue ... so much better! I can´t even remember how long we stayed there. In the end we left and walked around the city, watching people making carpets and we started being really hungry. In the end we found a place to have food and bumped into Isaak and later on into Erik and his group. He is mad because I don´t call him but right now I just can´t be asked. I still have to work out things with Elmer first. So by something like 5am or so we called it quits because we were so cold and than had to pay a horrendous sum for gettign a tuc-tuc home. I went to bed in my thermal underwear because I was so cold and that of course didn´t really help my cold. Anything though to get a real taste of what Eastern is here. I got explained that for certain days the purple robes are in and when Christ has died they change to black robes. There are tons of processions going on and incense is in the air and just made me cough.

Friday: I was sleeping in for a change which was really nice ... no school!!! We took it very easy that day and only emerged from the house around lunch time. The processions etc. were starting to annoy everyone here since that means lots of people, prices skyrocket etc. just too much all around! I took some pictures of that and some of a normal day and it is amazing to see the difference. We were just hanging and enjoying the day off. Further we had decided to stay in at night since it was a really bad night for being out since we were pretty dead ... Alex and Nicky said that nothing was going on in the City and wanted us to come out to Antigua. Not only did they let us know way too late because they were no tuc-tucs to be had ... and basically we feel asleep texting back. So althoug we felt bad that they had come from the City we just feel into our beds.

Saturday: We slept very long and constantly missed Camilla to catch up on the news. Mattheo being a player seems to have a crush on her and she is like sorry not interested. He does not want to get the message and we just all try to help her out if this mess - without much luck though! You see here someone is always dating someone and someone is hitting on someone. It is actully not much different than at home in the sense of "meat market" but the biggest difference here is that if you say you have a local boy-friend they basically leave you alone. Improvement as far as I am concerned since at home that still means nothing. I was supposed to meet Elmer at 3pm and waited for a while since Guatemaltecen time is not European time but no show. Chelsea showed up and said that she had no lucks with her phone calls so we decided in the end to make our way to Cafe Fernando. The Wednesday night we were 3. in Trivia and had won free coffee there. Heidi and me are non coffee drinkers and were made to drink. YYUUUKKK! Our coffee was more chocolate and sugar than anything else but we put on a brave face. We made it in time to join the 4pm Trivia in that location with 5 of us. Luis and Diego joined us later but were of no real help for getting is more points The biggest surprise was that we made it to be 2. the best group is like never to be beaten since we usually loose points in sports, science and questions about Latin America. We won a free breakfast which came in very handy for the next day since that is when we do not get meals provided. After that we just hung around a bit and went for the internet as usual. I saw Elmer briefly and he aplogized that he had overslept which is understandable with double shifts but no phone call ... When we went out at night we bumped into Luis and Diego who took us home and we had dinner and got changed. That is the only annoying part of living here that you always to go back and forth. At night we went to Reds and Chelsea found out that it was Enzos birthday. It seems that people do not mention it here. She was completely surprised and he was already pretty drunk. It was funny! George was there as well and his shoulder was killing him and was bruised. He got to carry one of those Jesus things with a group. He said that the coordination was not very good so the front dropped it and he got all the weight on the shoulder but it was an experience he said. Robert showed up as well and we chatted a bit. I had spotted Walter so Erik could not be far and I fled with Robert to the other table full with Germans and Canadians. I had made my escape just in time because Erik asked Chelsea where I was and she could honestly say no idea. He did not belive her but tough luck! The desk was done soon so I joined the others again. Enzo and his friends were pretty drunk so Chelsea had not much success in having a conversation. Camilla and me were tired and just wanted to go home. We started walking past Monoloco and Elmer appeared. We talked for a bit than we got escorted to a cab to take us home.

Sunday:

HAPPY EASTERN EVERYONE!!!

Not much of a lie in since we had to be in Antigua at 1am to meet Hedda. The breakfast was not enough to satisfy our hunger so we went to McDonalds afterwards. Where in the park for a while than decided that we needed to internet for a while. I was done and got lucky Elmer was on lunch break but Jose thought it really funny to join in the conversation since he knew by the smirk on his face that he was interferring. I left since the girls wanted to continue. Actually Hannah and Chelsea were left. Chelsea got a long phone call from her boy-friend but they agreed on time out for now. Hannah and me though it all takes too long and went for drinks and food upstairs. Elmer must think that I am nuts. Oh well! After that we went to watch a movie Having fun with Dick adn Jane with Jim Carry. Not the best thing ever in my book and not even particulary funny. I was cold and decided to leave the girls and go home and change. We meet for dinner in Enzos restaurant. The food was expensive and bad. Elmer and me were supposed to see each other after work but he never showed up. Chelsea and me were in La Sala where they were playing poker. I started chatting with Franz (he left Dortmund in the eighties and has not been back since, he asked like hoq does a Euro look like I ended up being the good luck charm for Michael (English guy). When the boys called it quits he had doubled his input. Chelsea and Enzo wanted time to themselves so Mike and me chatted a while longer and will meet again next week Tuesday in Monoloco. We were home pretty early and I felt a bit weird.

Monday: I woke up and felt spaced out. I got up and went to bathroom feeling all woozy and decided to stay in bed. Ema was worried but I told her I will just gt back to bed. I had a very late lunch in the end consisting of cornflakes. Went back to my room, tried to read without much success same goes for writing and before dinner Camilla showed up. That was great to hear some more gossip and see her smile all over the face since she is really happy with Terry and her Spanisch is improving We had a sandwich for dinner and sweet bread afterwards. I just had to get some fresh air and Chelsea and me said hello to Heidi and Hannah and to hear what they were up to. Well, they are going out to Reds tonight but I will take it easy today and will see if I go to school tomorrow but I hope to be okay again for going out tomorrow night. I really want to meet Michael again since I usually do not hang out at the poker tables and he has no cell. I just better get a hold of Elmer before the meeting though otherwise it could get even more complicated. Time to go home now and read maybe a bit before going of to sleep.

Finally up to speed again with my diary and lots of things for you all to read!