Surfs Up!

My schedule for each week at the school changes depending on availabilities and the ocean current. I had my first Spanish course at 8 am, followed by my first surf course at 10 am, then back to do a Spanish lab at 1pm. I am enjoying the Spanish lessons as I find them appropriately challenging yet approaching what I need to master the language. The surf lesson was fantastic, I did not get up every time but I learned a lot, and am ready to go back and give it my all. My surf instructor Geudy is great and has a lot of awesome catch phrases. I was informed later though that you need a “rash guard” which is just a lycra shirt that keeps you tucked in and protects your skin from the sun and a rash from sliding on the board and the waves.

Starting Out!

Saying good bye to everyone was definitely hard, but knowing what lay ahead for me made leaving at the same time so exciting. Thank you everyone who came out for my last night in town, made me feel so special and I only blame JT for my hangover! To let you all know getting cheep flights are not quite as good as they seem to be. I spent many hours in multiple airports and it would not have been so bad but I was craving a caeser.....trust me Canadians don't do it, the American “caeser” is quite different than ours. I did however meet some very nice travelling Americans and Nicole the advice on travelling with Canadian tags was positively true.

Sleep deprived after the red eye flight, not finding my friend in the airport in a foreign country made the first few moments abroad a little less comfortable than was expected, but everything seemed to work out ok. For future though I will always remember to set in place “plan B’s” when travelling with others and even myself for that matter.

Zone 13

As Guatemala is a pretty dangerous city to explore on your own I decided to just stay in a safer zone away from downtown and close to the airport. There were a few things to do in this zone, there was a zoo, museums and markets. At the zoo I saw many different types of animals from around the world like lions tigers and bears oh my lol. There were also a lot of monkeys and I really liked the giraffes. At the zoo we saw a show in 3 D about prehistoric animals (monsters) of the sea. The handi craft market was down the street and had your basic Guatemalan goods and a lot of silver and jade. I bought a little silver toe ring, well I hope it is silver, I guess I will know if my toe turns green if I go ripped off or not. Then we tried to go to the modern art museum but it was closed for a private showing so we only got to see the national Museum. It did however have some really beautiful statues and engravings as well as a cool cave with real paintings inside the cave. Leaving tomorrow for San Jose then home!