Post 300

Day 320

Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

300 posts eh?

Yesterday I felt really bad. I was supposed to be getting up at 5.30 and hiking up to a lake for 2 hours. After tossing and turning until 3.30 and then only getting a couple of hours sleep, combined with a muffled headache and sore throat I reset my alarm and got some more sleep.

I hoped it wasn’t anything serious.

Later on in the morning I hung out at the hostel, half regretting my laziness during such a nice day but mostly happy that I wasn’t stressed and running around while feeling lousy. I did something to my site and effectively killed it so that took a couple of hours to figure out.

When I got it sorted I headed over to my school where I was being my Spanish classes on Monday to hopefully catch up with someone who knew where my host family lived. They were expecting me to come on the hike but luckily Niklas and Chris came walking down the hill and I was able to find where I was supposed to be moving to.

I had a homestay with a family of 5, Lulu and Romero the parents and Michelle, David and Sandra, their kids in their early twenties. None of them speak English which should help. I’m also getting 4.5 hours of Spanish lessons a day for $150 a week. If this doesn’t get me fluent I don’t know what will.

David had his birthday too which meant the house then filled up with friends and relatives for a big booze up. I managed to drag myself up for the party and had a couple of drinks. They then started playing a game which can only be described as ‘strip-pass the parcel’. I was slightly confused but got the general idea. When the balloon got to me I was required to remove an item of clothing while dancing in front of an attractive girl. Just what I didn’t want to do while feeling slightly dizzy but I still put on a good show :p

After a while I try to go to bed but am forced to dance salsa with one of the daughters. Damn this place! :p

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