Only one day left…
We’re down to the last couple days now… Or less, really. The shuttle is picking us up at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday to get us to Guatemala City for our 9:50 flight. We’ll land in Miami at 2:20 p.m. and take off again at 4:00, landing in Chicago at 6:15, where my [...]
Roasting marshmallows on lava
Tomorrow morning at 6:00 am (which is 7:00 back in Valparaiso) Stacey and I leave for Pacaya, the only active volcano in Guatemala that they let you climb. From what we’ve been told, it’s about an hour and half to get there, two hours to climb it, then an hour to climb back down. [...]
Back in Antigua, back to school
Well, the vacation-in-a-vacation is over, and we’re back in Antigua. I’ll pick my photos and get them uploaded for you soon. Probably tomorrow. Copan was cool… and Tikal was even better! And we wrapped it all up with a quick stop at Quirigua (another Mayan ruins site) and a couple nights in [...]
Out and about in Antigua
The school we’re attending each day is the Christian Spanish Academy. It’s a very nice place, with an inner courtyard and lots of tables for all that one-on-one instruction. I included some pics… including Stacey’s “first day of school” picture.
I realize you couldn’t see it much earlier, due to the clouds, [...]
First pics of Antigua, Guatemala
Here are pics of our first couple days in town. Every day we walk about 5 blocks to the Christian Spanish Academy, where we work one-on-one with our teachers from 8:00 am until 1:00 pm (with a break from 10:00 to 10:30). Then we walk back to the house we’re living in (with [...]
