Teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) classes begin Monday evening at 5:00pm. And will be every Monday, Wednesday, Friday for 1 hour and Saturday morning for 3 hours. My schedule in the last week has been rather devoid of much activity, at least scheduled activity. One of my main projects a video project is off to a slow start, but this week I may be able to get some interviews and move along on it. This will be more intense in July when a couple more groups come to the area and I will be interviewing and gathering footage for the video. I am trying to do as much before July as possible so I will not get to crushed with work at the end of my stay here.
After two or so weeks of traveling, this past week has been interesting although slower than I am used as I am adjusting to life in Guatemala, I am hoping to get the hang of it before I leave! And my Spanish is not real good...
Communication is hard enough in my own language but limiting my vocab to a few hundred words and things take a whole new perspective. My vocabulary in increasing daily but it feels very slow. And talking like a two year old limits what you can do. Even going to the store is an adventure... I bought tortillas the other day and I wanted 10 of them, I also had 10 Quetzales. Tortillas are cheap 5 tortillas for a Q (about 12 or 13 cents). Mi amigo and roommate Raul was with me and asked how much I wanted and I said 10, but when I was handed 50 tortillas and no change I was a little surprised and had a chuckle... Of course that may have happened even if my Spanish was immaculate, but probably not. Any way I have to speak mostly Spanish here and communication is a fun adventure. Every day there is some communication issues and that will improve as my Spanish improves hopefully. That is part of getting used to life here and I must say it makes all the other aspects of getting used to life that much more difficult, but things are moving along...
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