Here is Parque Central at night and a few more to wet your taste buds. (Yes I am over the moon with my new DSLR).
Day to day life
I am currently staying in the Jungle Party Hostel (this week only), it is a lively place full of the traveller type telling "ya, you know I have been travelling for like 10 months and I am so removed from western culture I am practically a local!" Seriously though, it is a cool hostel, I have free WIFI, which is amazing on the iPhone and a huge selection of free breakfasts.
Anyway, once I had filled my tiring and moody stomach, I fished around for a Language school to get going on lessons. I decided to throw myself in the deep-end and I am currently doing 6 hours per day of one-on-one tution. Here is what I can see from my desk at the Sevilla Language School.
The classes are really intense, try talking in English for 6 hours a day one-on-one! I know, I know..I know I talk a lot but it is mentally draining. Carmen my teacher is really sweet and I can already notice the difference in my Spanish. We played Scrabble today and she only beat me by 4 points!! Better than the 40 or so...yesterday. Carmen has started calling me Mincho which is apparently a diminutive of Benjamin. Amusing to her and before you all ask she is 57!
Antigua is very safe by Guatemalan standards and also does not let down on a booming nightlife. I have never done so much Salsa in my life. Therefore, today I am typing on the back of 4 hours sleep (I start Spanish lessons at 8am) amidst a crazy one with some Irish, Aussies, Germans and Kiwis.
This though is my new hangover cure, it is pickled cabbage with salsa picante and tomato, filling the moist meat that is engulfed by avocado and a dense texture of deep fried bread. Unbelievable. Again, Salisbury, it is incredible, - rivalling Chilango.
Food has been a staple interest of mine for a while and here does not fault to deceive. I am loving Guatemalan food, this has been my favourite meal thus far. No menu just given a deep, hearty stew with great chilli depth accompanied by mini tortillas and avocado with an obligatory Pepsi.
Otherwise, the days are flying by already. I have been playing football with the locals in my lunch break, they are not Angel standard but pretty decent. No el Jefe! Also, stupidly went for a run a couple of days ago in searing heat at altitude. I ran up the nearby mountain and considering we are already at 1500m, I nearly died but better than this hangover I am nursing.
Tonight, I am going out with my new housemates. I am moving into the student shared house at the Lang. School, so I am going over for pre drinking slash Yankee gaming. If it is like any other night it should be a mad one, the dancing is crazy and the locals are mad about Jamie Ayers, I mean J Lo - On the Floor, and, Keith Gamble, Pitbull - Give me Everything.
Righto people, here is a selection of photos of Antigua and my life right now. Best go and get some lunch, soup to help hydrate as the sun is out in force, until 4pm that is when the rain arrives in gusto.
Outside my hostel, a thunder storm was a coming
One of the nearby volcanos erupting (yesterday)
The washing machine
Tomorrow I am off to Copan in Honduras for the weekend with someone on my course. So I will bid adieu and update once back in Antigua on Sunday night. You know just your basic weekend away to Copan before another week of Spanish.
Ciao amigos. Besos.
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