Hola!
I travelled to Houston yesterday and reached. My bag handle is broken now, so I have to drag my bag from the top of the bag instead of tilting it, and that didn't help when I was travelling to my hotel room yesterday. I had to stay the night in Houston so that I could reach today's flight in Guatemala. I went to the airport in Houston and met up with some people i've been talking to over facebook. In particular Jason and Ann who is my roomate. They are super nice and I can't wait to learn more about them. On the plane we had customs forms that we had to fill out, similar to when I went to Dubai. We had to line up and I nicely smiled and said Hola to the man sitting who kindly stamped my passaporte. We got our bags and headed out... Then we met up with Brooke and Julie and it is amazing how many people were standing around waiting for loved ones. Then we met our driver and he took my bags from me, and carried them to the van which I was excited about so I didn't have to carry them. Guatemala is an amazing place, it is so green and everyone is so nice and helpful. They laugh when you try and speak Spanish to them. We got to our hotel which is beautiful and luxerious and apparently the only thing pretty with running hot water we will get to stay in for a while. We said Gracias to the men taking our bags who then responded with a yourwelcome, funny but strange. Everyone in this trip is excited to finally meet a Canadian and keep asking me questions about Canada! Sorry for my poor launguage and grammar skills but I have to hurry to an orientation. I also realize that my thoughts are randomly scattered and i'm also sorry for that. Lo siento! We got up to our room and unpacked a bit, but we can't completly since we're leaving tomorrow morning. We then had a welcome ceremony and then we walked to this place called Pollo Correo or something like that. That was pretty much KFC in Guatemala. It was packed with people, apparently its the joint to eat at. It was 3pm and Ann and I were so stuffed because we had both eaten alot before so we shared some papas fritas, or fries and then we came back. That was forsure my first culture shock experience when I had to order in Spanish and I was left speechless. Weird, because I knew what I had to say back but I didn't do it... I'm staring to learn that people know its okay that we're just starting off speaking Spanish.. which is then leading me to randomly say Hola and Como Estas to random strangers in our hotel. Our dinner was fabulous... It was the hotel buffet...
Ah! I got caught for using the computer, will write later after the orientation. Wish me luck travelling to Xela.
786...Carpe Diem.
