This last week I felt like I was starting to settle into a routine. Language classes in the morning, various activities in the afternoon and then down time for the evening. I would like to think my spanish is improving even if just slightly in the last two weeks. My brain just processes what i want to say soooo slowly. Xela is surrounded by mountains and we drove up to see a really pretty view of the city. It was a cloudy day, but still a nice view. There also were these steep concrete slides built side by side on this large hill. How do you slide down a slide made of concrete, you ask? By sitting on a flattened plastic bottle of course! They were flattened out 2 liter bottles and boy they worked a little too good!
German got a soccer team together of several boys that work in the park for a tournament. Saturday was their first game and though it didn't go well, they started having practices. It is fun to watch teenage boys be teenage boys despite the hard life and hard work they experience. At the park on Friday we took some games to the park, Jenga, chutes and ladders, memory and some coloring pages. We spent an hour and half playing with whatever kids were around. There is a brother and sister who work in the park I think all day now, because school is out. He is 10 and she is 12 and they help their mom by selling bird seed for the pigeons. When they have school I usually see them in the afternoon. It has been fun to see them and stop and talk for a little while. They are patient with my Spanish or they just like to ask me how to say lots of different things in english. Either way it is entertaining for us both.
Over the weekend I experienced a bit of the nightlife here in Xela. I went out with my spanish teacher and some of her friends/co-workers. We went to two different dance clubs. One played more American/electric dance music and the other more latin music. I don't ever go out dancing, but here it so popular that I think if i go again I prefer the salsa music :)
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