Last night we decided to go on a hike to Santa Maria Volcon, a volcano outside of Xela that overlooks another volcano which errupts regularly. So after, going to the discoteca last night, where the dancing was ok but could have been better, we got up at 400am. our host mom was nice enough to get up and make us breakfast and then drive us to the school to meet the divinity kids and the finland lady who is a 25 year old dentist...you learn a lot about people during a 6 hour hike...and we picked up some other kids from other schools and drove to the mt. base. it was a tough hike in the clouds and with misty rain a lot of the time. one of the guys from the other school is a UW medical student, he was pretty cool. we had some interesting conversations wtih everyone along the way. and got some good travel tips and places to go.
At the top of the volcanoe we got to see the other vocanoe errupt! it was pretty cool, the clouds kept rolling in and out. much to my horror, my host mom had packed us a sandwhich made of some sort of chopped up bologna substance, chopped peppers, celery and worst of all....mayonaise. but i was starving so i ate it anyways...so far the food hasn´t been anything to write home about. for some reason the tortillas my host mom makes are greenish grey colored. not sure why, but the food is pretty good.
after the hike it really began to rain. the rain hasn´t been too hard but is steady, and there is a lack of street drains. so we wear sandals and wade through the brown streams and get splashed by the buses... i´m going to be really sore tomorrow from the hike, but the views were definitely worth it. there´s a place called queztal trekkers that does tons of excursions like this that we are going to check out for next weekend.
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