Guatemala City, Night One, Day One

I finally arrived in Guatemala City at approximately 9 pm on Sunday night. I had plane problems in Indianapolis and had to switch numerous times causing me to miss my Houston to Guate City flight and reschedule it. This gave me a layover o about 7 and a half hours. Regardless, I arrived at night and was taken by Jennifer, my school's business manager to the hotel, Santander Plaza. Hotel is nice and the people are so friendly. I received a welcome basket of goodies and a cell phone and was ready for bed. Tomorrow I would be able to go to my school and house.

I woke up and was picked up by Jennifer at noon to get a quick driving tour of the city. I was impressed by the cleanliness. I have been in the more affluent areas. Jennifer came with another new teacher, Chris who I have been chatting with for awhile now about school and Guatemala. She is very nice as well. We went to our school up the Carretera to El Salvador, 12.5 kilometers. Along the way I got to see the amazing view, but it was rainy so it was kind of hard (my school is about 1500 meters I think about the city itself. Anyway, along the road surprisingly was many American chain food restaurants and stores. I plan on going shopping for house stuff later this week and will be hitting up numerous places.

We got to school and I met a lot of the administrators and took a tour. An amazing campus with very friendly people. My classroom is nice too. I started my car and am thinking that I will be taking it away from the school later this week when I get a better understanding of where I'm at.

I was then taken to my house which I absolutely love. I will be posting more pics of it once I move in from the hotel. Until then, I'll keep you in suspense...a very quiet residential neighborhood. I'm going to get along great with it :) Here is a photo:










As for now I'm chillin in the hotel room after a late lunch of none other than TACO BELL! We were in a hurry so we went to it as it is close to my school.
I also am very happy to have had about a 20 minute conversation in Spanish with one of the drivers (Manor, I think I don't know how to spell his name). He told me that I will be speaking more very soon. I can already feel like a lot of it is coming back from university and high school days...HOW EXCITING!

I am thinking of relaxing a bit before having dinner in Zone 10.

I'll keep you posted. I think this has been a very wise move for me. Everything so far just feels right!!

Until next time,

Dustin