aguas calientes

yesterday the afternoon trip was to a hotsprings ouside of a small pueble se llama nudil. the hot spring itself was kind of silly, looked more like a concrete pool and these locals were obviously laughing at us a bit, however the surrounding tropical rainforest setting was beautiful. although elizabeth was clearly wrong when she thought that she saw bananas growing on the palm trees...that´s what happens when someone from arizona leaves the desert.

i started taking salsa classes at a school in town, i paid for 5 lessons so i better go. its pretty fun. i´m learning the chica and chico´s part. there are lots of discotecas to practice some salsa and spanish. last night i watched a bad hugh grant movie in spanish with spanish subtitles, played jenga with my hermanita, and ates some really greasy empañadas. today for lunch i had something very similar to jook, and this radish salad thing. it was good.

tomorrow i´m taking the chicken bus with a couple other students and we are headed to lake atitlan for the weekend! que bueno!