Lake Atitlan Spanish school 🇬🇹

We decided to take part in a week long Spanish school while at Lake Atitlan. As part of this we got the opportunity to stay with a local family!

Day 1: Our first day waking up in our home stay was an interesting one. At about 5am we were woke up by singing. Loud singing. By the whole family.
When we went up for breakfast they explained to us that it was the mums (Magdalena)’s birthday and that’s why they were singing! After breakfast, Jeremy took us to a local market where women handmake items to sell to provide for the local children in the community. We were then taken to another local place where they taught us about bees and products that they make from honey. Once the excursions were finished we had our first Spanish lesson. My teacher Heto was an interesting character, more interested in adding my on Facebook than teaching me Spanish! After lesson we decided to go to a cooking class that the school organised!

Day 2: The next day we woke up early and we’re taken Ziplining! It was incredible flying over the canopy, the views were incredible! After that was another Spanish lesson and then me, Betty, Alexa, Jenny and Chris decided to go on a bar crawl around the town! It was a great night, dancing, drinking tequila and singing karaoke at the Regge bar!

Day 3: The next day we decided to skip the morning activity and spending the morning relaxing and catching up on Spanish work. After Spanish class we were to a weaving class and learnt how the locals make their traditional clothing!

Day 4: My Spanish class was moved to the morning, leaving me the afternoon to explore San Juan and then taking part in the Salsa Class! Then I’m the evening we all decided to go into town for some food at a local Italian place where the owners were lovely! Then we had a few beers and went to the thermal pools!

Day 5: Today was our last day of Spanish class! We had our lesson and then all the group from the home stay decided to take our family out for a meal! They all came and we had a great evening playing Spanish speaking games! They we headed up to the roof of our home stay and had some beers and listened to some local music with the family 💛もっと詳しく