Xela - Week 4

Day 345.

So that's a wrap for Xela, four weeks of intense Spanish classes have come to an end. You would be forgiven for thinking that means we are now fluent in Spanish, as naively that is exactly what we assumed ourselves. Sadly it's anything but, however we have enjoyed some great memories and made some great freinds here.

The final week was a busy one, cramming in just about everything we could, a final farewell to salsa rosa, accompanied by a few in action arguments courtesy of Qi's photography skills, it seems we just can't dance while the camera is rolling...

It's been a busy social week, paying a few too many visits to the local cantina than maybe we should have, which certainly didn't help Ellie get down those omelettes the morning after, so much so in fact she adopted the approach of just packing them up and putting them in the bin, wait sorry did I say bin, I meant in our room, next to the bed for days at a time.

Ellie has surprisingly become the Dr dolittle of the school, Ellie of all people has befriended the new kitten, becoming buddies throughout her entire 5 hours spanish lesson. I couldn't beleive it myself given she normally nothing less than shuns every animal she dares come into contact with.

Great final week with our teachers, culminating in a near heroic victory at spanish Scrabble vs my teacher. She might have been taking it easy but I reckon I had her on the ropes near the end.

Finally got around to purchasing some Choco bananas here, as always countries such as Guatemala are super resourceful with the 5 core ingredients they grow, here corn and bananas are in literally everything, so obviously frozen chocolate covered bananas are the local desert delicasy. For £0.15 per hit they're certainly not bad either.

Ended the week with the final Pot luck lunch, whipping up our now regular guacomole and avoidings Qis freshly prepared Pig feet!Read more