Antigua

Yo,

I´m writing you from Antigua, which about an hour west of Guatemala. We met up with mike vehar and victoria yuko at the airport and jammed in a taxi to Antigua. We arrived here yesterday around lunch time. Antigua is about a third of the way to Comintancillo. We are staying at a small hostel in town and today mike, kevin, and I are sharing one room.

Side note, on the way to antigua victoria told us about her 24 hour horror story in antigua . I won´t go into details, but the moral of the story is don´t drink 6 rum and cokes (cuba libres) and then wonder off alone.

Victoria left for the US this morning, she was only here for a 3 week stay with some of the younger ethos students. Yesterday we ate a bagel cafe (super americanized) and then headed to the market, which is quite the experience. You seriously can buy anything, car speaker, mangos, rope, sunglasses (got some sweet $3 fockleys), cats, chickens, anything! Mike taught us some bartering skills for when we need to buy supplies in Comintancillo. You can usally drop any price at least 10-20 quetsalles, which is the local currrency.

Later in the night we went to another super americanized thai place. Antigua is still a very touristy town so it is still slightly sheltering from the true guatemala, that is also why I have been able to send out an update so quick, there are internet cafes everywhere. We then headed to a small bar and played some yuker and drank some cuba libres. You can´t argue with rum and cokes that are only 75 cents!

The next morning i was woken up by at least 17 roosters. I think now I know why the c word is used to describe a jerk hahaha. We did get to sleep in the only things we needed to do today were find a cell phone and a get a bus ticket to Xela (pronounced shala), which is the next stop on our way to comintancillo.

We found a cheap cell that kevin and I are going to share. The number is 51652370, but to call from the US it is 011-502-516-2370. We get incoming calls for free, so feel free to call us, but you will have to pay internatinal rates, google guatemala calling cards to get cheap rates. We also got a bus ticket for 4 am! tommorrow. Its mainly so we can get to xela in time for the champions league final haha. Ok time to go I am running out of time in the internet cafe!

Adios,

Scott