Week 1 of School

This week we´ve shared our house with five other great students that we´ll really miss when they leave, Liz being one of them. We had a fiesta last night because it was our last dinner as a ¨family¨including salsa dancing with Tom. It is so cold at night in our little casa that keeping our feet warm is necessary to our well being. Mom wears tennis shoes in her bedroom while doing homework. We were very happy to see Cody when we arrived in Xela and he showed us around a little bit. We went to a government building with a beautiful atrium and while we were admiring the flowers a bunch of policemen went running down the hall. We decided we should run the other way so out we went with all the other people. After that we went to a restaurant for celebratory drinks and sat on the balcony in the rain. Every Wednesday night, our school takes a trip to La Rumba, the local salsa bar. Liz got friendly with the giant blowup beer bottle out front while waiting for a cab. We took an afternoon trip to the natural hot springs located about 45 minutes up a windy narrow mountain road. It was fabulously beautiful and warm. We felt clean for the first time in a week. We also took a trip with our school to the chocolate factory (a Guatemalan staple) located only two blocks from our school. The ¨factory¨is really a home and the woman´s family has been making it for five generations. You can see the sixth generation attached to her skirt. He loved the chocolate covered fruit almost as much as we did.