En español ahora

en lunes yo empeze mis clases de español, hace dos dias y yo pienso que estoy mejorando. pero a tu beneficio yo puedo escribir en ingles... for the next two weeks i will have 5 hours of spanish instruction per day. it goes by really fast actually, a lot more fun than i was expecting. mi maestra se llama gabby. she´s really nice and pretty forgiving of my mistakes. yesterday they said it was a storm coming but then it was sunny in the afternoon. guatemala has two estaciones, winter, and summer...now is winter but really its just the rainy season. hoy yo leì una libro sobre la lluvia.

i have class at 8am every morning. yesterday i had to eat a fried egg, as much grease as egg, and it reminded me of my homestay in china....but fortunately today i just had scrambled eggs and frijoles. in the afternoons we have little activities. yesterday because of the rain it was a documentary about the mining in guatemala and some community organizing, very social workesque. and today we went to a chocolateria. guatemala grows cacau trees and exports a small percent of the coco for our chocolate. we got some samples. but i might have to return to try the chile chocolate. they told us all about the history of chocolate and the mayans, etc. tonight i´m going with two classmates to a salsa class. my abuelita challenged me to a game of jenga, this was after a 5 minute lunch discussion on how i am muy seria, ´¨very serious¨´ compared to most of the students...the whole 6 of us eat lunch together and today the dad enjoyed mimicking the other americans by waving his hands and making squeeky noises..apparently i´m not like this, instead muy seria como buddha...they are slightly obsessed with discussing china now. slightly racist but its not really offensive, mostly funny. apparenlty soy una chinita mas que una gringa...