Hola holaaa

¡Hola gente!
I hope this works, everything is in Spanish so hopefully I´m doing it right. Anyway, I´m here in Xela (aka Quetzaltenango...but that name is really long, everyone calls it Xela) Guatemala where it is rainy and cold. They said it would be cold, but I think I thought to myself "It´s Central America, how cold could it be?" but I was wrong wrong wrong. In the evenings and mornings, and during the day when it´s raining, which is almost every day, it´s about like Virginia in late October because I´m up in the mountains. Other than that I´m loving the food and culture here--muy muy rico! Oooh the food is good, lots of fresh, home made corn tortillas and cheese and coffee, oh man the COFFEE is amazing. I live in a house with 9 other members of my host family ranging in ages from 1 to 78. I am always wet and cold, and I just always think to myself "Oh Katie...Katie...this does not feel good" haha. At least when I get down to Honduras it will be wet and HOT.
I´m taking Spanish classes from 8-1 5 days a week, and it´s really good because I have a private teacher who is hilarious, and I´m actually learning really in depth Spanish grammer versus the kind of general stuff you learn in high school and college. In the afternoons my group (the 6 other kids all going down to work at the Finca) and I usually do some kind of activity. This week we took a salsa class one day (so unsuccessful), went to this natural hot spring about an hour away another day, and yesterday afternoon the three other girls and I started taking these weaving classes at this women´s cooperative in town. We will eventually each have weaved a scarf but it´s going to be over many days and hours. That´s pretty much how I´ve been spending my days.
In two weeks we´ll be making the trek down to Honduras, which is actually quite far. It would normally be about a two or three day journey, but we´re taking 10 so it´s really going to be more like a quest. We´re stopping at alot of cool places like this giant lake (Lago Atitlan) for a few days, these bat caves and natural pools (google image search Semuc Champey, it´s not ugly), and these Mayan ruins. Then we´ll finally get down to my future home on October 1st (hopefully, though we don´t have any specific plans on just how we´re getting there yet).
Anyway I´m really excited, I love the other people in my group, and I´m really looking forward to getting down to the Finca. Hopefully I´ll be able to put some pictures up soon of people and places I´ve been so far.
¡¡Miss you all!! ¡Se extraño muchisimo!