mixed feelings after my 2nd night here....
PARQUE CENTRAL in ANTIGUAfunny - somehow my feelings and thoughts abut my stay here have been going up and down loads ever since I got to Antigua de G. ....
well, I haven´t even been here for 48 hours yet.... and I know it´s gonna be all great.... and it´s all part of the whole travelling experience as well I guess...
but for the first time on my trip so far I did actually feel like a tourist here..... and didn´t like that very much.... well, I´m not "couchsurfing" or staying with friends here at the moment, and that makes the whole difference....
now, don´t get me wrong - Marta Julia, la doña de mi casa por aqui, y Naia, la cocinera, are super-nice, my room is great, and the food is really good too....!! there´s a water cooler with drinking water that we can access 24 hours.....
also in the school there´s always free water and coffee available....
Antigua is beautiful and my classes are going really well too.... one-to-one lessons with my teacher que se llama Rolando....
been talking lots about la guerra civil aqui en Guate and how he experienced it yesterday.... and also talking / learning about lotsa other stuff.....and all EN ESPANOL.....it´s great....
but it´s easy to tell that this whole school is a business for them and they´re in it to make money of course.... hm, kinda normal in a way, I guess...... and after talking with Rolando I also understand it all a bit better from their point of view..... for example, he´s never been outside of Guatemala in his whole life.... also, he never knows if he´s gonna have students to teach next week or not.... they don´t get any paid vacation time from the school....and I´m not sure how much they get paid at all..... very different life here.....
aahhh well - I know I´ll be fine and have a great time here and get used to everything muy pronto....
last night I talked lots with Hermance, the French girl who lives in my family as well, and she´s great...!!! her Spanish is pretty much the same level as mine, so it´s a lot of fun to talk with her and really good practice for both of us.... she only studies in the morning and in the afternoons she works in a vountary project in an orphanage here..... really interesting for her cause she´s doing a MA degree in Psychology in Paris..... she´s also staying here for another 3 weeks and then we might travel together towards Mexico.....
I´m actually really glad that I´m only studying in the morning, cause it´s a lot quieter than.... most students here have their classes in the morning and it´s really crowded then....
another nice thing - MARTA JULIA keeps telling me that I don´t have a German accent at all when I talk Spanish....yaaiiii....great...!!!
but very sad thing - I can´t listen to my CDs here.... no CD player in our house here.... :(
oh well....
but gonna go dancing here tonight... and apparently there are a few nice salsa places around in Antigua..... obviously there are worlds between the salsa here and at the Congress in PR last week....
saw that already on SUN night when I went to this little show with Carlos and some of his friends en Jocotenango.... but was actually really nice and interesting to see this local Guatemalan beauty peagant and the Salsa showcase they did there.... and yeah, I know I´m gonna have a nice time dancing here too....
alrighty... gotta go now, meet a friend for a coffee, have lunch at my house, then mas classes de Espanol por la tarde.... hasta luego and talk soon....
posted by Astrid @ 11:12 AM
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