guatemala

Day 2 of Intensive Spanish = head about to explode

September 13, 2011

Tweet I think that I am a better English and French teacher than I am a Spanish student. Why? I have completed two days of Spanish. I have 3.5 (INTENSIVE) hours a day with a personal tutor, so that make 7 hours of one-to-one Spanish instruction that I have under my belt.My brain is fried. [...]

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Liebling leaves tomorrow, Spanish classes start Monday.

September 10, 2011

Tweet Did you know that Guatemala has a Caribbean coast? I sure didn’t. Then again, there are tons of things I didn’t know slash realize before getting to this amazing country. The above pictures are from the two days we spent in on the Caribbean coast of Guatemala, in a city called Livingston. I don’t [...]

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Why I almost didn´t hike the Pacaya Volcano

September 8, 2011

Tweet Those who have toured Guatemala will tell you that you HAVE TO hike one of the three volcanos clustered around Antigua, the former capital. Always up for adventure, Liebling and I put a volcano hike on our list of things to do. After looking up the requisite info, we decided that we wanted to [...]

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My adopted city in Guatemala: Antigua

September 6, 2011

Tweet Is it possible to fall in love with a place? I think so. We’ve spent, if you count up all of the days, over a week in Antigua, Guatemala, using this city as a base as we explore the rest of Guatemala. It’s not hard to say why I am in love with the [...]

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To the market we go: Chichicastenango, Guatemala

September 2, 2011

Tweet I have so many stories and pictures to share, but so little internet time and very slow uploading speeds that I don’t even know where to begin. Perhaps it is best to recount yesterday’s trip, which was to the famed Chichicastenango Market located in the Guatemalan town of the same name. Chichicastenango, near impossible [...]

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Go shorty, it´s your birthday

August 31, 2011

Tweet I´m finally able to upload pics! But the connection is very very slow so I can only post a few. Yesterday was my birthday and I had the good fortune to spend it with a loved one in two different countries. What a lucky girl I am! The morning of my 29th year, I [...]

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In Central America!

August 29, 2011

Tweet Sorry for not having updated- my internet access has been sketchy and I don’t have much time to write so this will be a horribly rambling post lacking punctuation pictures and the like. I write this terribly drab post from Copan, Honduras, where I’ve been since this morning (after a cramped 6.5 hour ride [...]

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Thank yous, updates, and packing for Guatemala

August 25, 2011

Tweet I know, I know, things have been quiet around here. At least, that’s the way it feels to me. I’ve been running around with a very nice boy and haven’t had the time to really drop a line. Firstly, I want to send a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE shout-out and thank you to my SITStahs, whose support [...]

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