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On Saturday we came to Antigua, hating to leave the Lake. Antigua has a lot of tourist and on Saturday and Sunday a lot of people from Guatemala City. But the town is neat with all the old ruins and cobble stone streets. Our new family and home are nice. Silvia Garcia is our host along with her 16 year old son. The home has 5 bedrooms one of which they occupy and a court yard with its roofed dinning and seating area. She runs this family home stay as a business. There is another student at our house from Spokane WA
2/25/09
We finished our 3 day at our new school Ixchel Spanish School. We like it and our new teachers. The school is a lot larger than our old school, about 40 students with both the morning and afternoon classes. We had a fiesta last night at the school to celebrate the first day of Lent. They had dinner and dancing and eggs with confetti en them. They break the eggs on each others heads. Shannon had fun dancing. The teachers got Jared up to dance a few times, but not for long. Tomorrow most of the school is going to the beach for the day. We will do two hours of school then play the rest.
2/27/09
Our first week of school in Antigua is over. The beach was great yesterday. The school rented a chicken bus which was packed and we drove 1.5 hours to the beach in Puerto San Jose. We did our 2 hours of school at a hotel there then walked down the road to a restaurant that was cheaper than the hotels. I had 8 or 10 broiled shrimp, nice large ones, on my plate for about $8 and they were very good. At the hotel the meal would have been $16. After our meal we spent a few hours on the beach enjoying the ocean. Around 4:30 we were told to load the bus which we did and then sat there for 20 minutes in the heat waiting for the rest of the group. Most of us finally got off again and waited over 30 minutes before the rest of the group showed up. We found out the next day that the hotel was mad at the school because not enough people ate at their restaurant to off set their cost of us using their facilities and pool and wanted more money. The school also had use of a room to put all our bags in so we did not have to lug them around. During this dispute the hotel manager would not let anyone else get their stuff out of the room, most of us already had. The school finally came up with some more money and we were able to leave.