A Recap

So, even though I think blogs should be short, sweet, spontaneous and stick to one subject, I think a summary is in order:
We really enjoyed our time at Escuela de la Montaña. We had lessons 4 hours a day in the mornings with really great teachers- Ani, Abby and Eunice (it sounds a lot prettier in spanish). We got to explore a coffee finca (plantation), catch the ¨pick-ups¨(pick up trucks with a metal cage-like stucture on the back) to a nearby town, Colomba, for 50 cents, and be amazed at the different ways our families could serve our four basic staples-beans, eggs, tortillas and vegetables (along with fried chicken and corn flakes for sarah).
Now, we are back in Xela and much more adept at riding the chicken bus and, between the three of us, understanding the locals. Tomorrow is Independence Day so there is much celebrating going on. The downside to this is there seem to be no rooms available because of the holiday so we ended up at ¨Casa de Argentina¨in a dormitorio-basically a room with a bunch of beds. We tell ourselves that it is part of the experience.
Our plans for the next two weeks are to visit Lake Atitlan and Tikal in the north.
Buen Viaje(good journey) to us!