Graduation!

After a rivalling game of scrabble, Christina and I exchanged contact information and we said our goodbyes. It´s quite amazing how much you can learn about a person from talking with them for four hours a day for fifteen days. Of course every bit of it was in Spanish as our conversations, beyond learning verb conjugations, wound everywhere from poverty and quality of life to astronomy and sustainability. Much of the time was spent flipping through my dictionary trying to find the words to complete my thoughts, but we always managed and the skill of putting yourself out there has turned out to be one of the biggest things I´ve aquired in speaking a foreign language.

Rosa and her family also gave me a warm departure after I cleaned off a plate piled high with rice, chicken, vegetables, and of course fresh tortillas than I couldn´t ever take down. They have been great hosts and the food was amazing...I´m going to miss the food, but the change of scenary and environment across town has provided a nice change. I decided to splurge and found myself and nice room on the roof of a lakeside hotel. So for five bucks a night i´ll enjoy a beautiful view and relax for the next two days while figuring out the last details of my upcoming voyage east to semuc chempay which looks pretty nice from the pictures and all the good things the travels i´ve met have said.

I wish I would have come upon the english teaching opportunity earlier. I feel like today was a great day and would like to see how much these young adults could accomplish over a longer period. We played a game with verbs written all over the ball and they did very well. I have started to see the different personalities of some of the students come through. They were very quite and anxious to participate or volunteer initially, but that has definately changed over the week. I gave the teacher my contact info and said if any of his students were interested in a penpal in the states I would like to do that, or if not me find some other students or anyone who might be interested.