It's Time to Catch Up!

Wow, it has been incredibly too long since I have blogged! However, my journal has also been neglected equally, whoops!

SO much has happened since the last time I blogged! For starters, I had an amazing time with my parents when they visited me during Spring Break! They stayed in my house down here with my host family and we had some great times interacting between the two families. Even though there wasn't a clear line of communication, everyone got the general idea, and I feel so blessed that I had the opportunity to share my life down here with my parents! We spent 3 days in Mexico (the trip there was quite interesting, getting stopped at the border, the unofficial fees, our taxi couldn't cross the border so we ended up taking a taxi from the border the city) and then just really relaxed while in Mexico. We also went to Lago Atitlan, which was GORGEOUS! The picture above is there! So that was an amazing week, and I was really excited to see my group after a week of not seeing them (a bit of withdrawl!)

Let's see, what else has been going on. We have still been at school quite a bit. We have gone on a few trips. The most recent is Semuc Champey which was AMAZING! The highlights: I jumped off of a bridge that was 17 m, scared me so much. I also went off of a few intense water swings, and went exploring in these caves where we had to swim with our candles.. I was freaking out there. All in all, I came out with many bruises and cuts, but the weekend was SO worth it, even though it was a 10 hour bus ride there and another 10 back.

Other than that, we have still been doing the salsa dancing and enjoying the heck out of our time here in Xela. Scary news is that we only have 18 days left in Xela.. after that,  I am headed to Costa Rica with 3 other girls from our group and 2 teachers from our school, which should be fun! But it is just ridiculous to think we will be headed back to the States SO soon.. Asi es la vida! (That's the life).

I hope everything is going well for all back up North, I heard that the weather is finally cooperating!

Abrazos de Xela-Sarita