Antigua : The First 24 hours

Oh man, up until this point we didn't really have note-worthy posts. We weren't living in Antigua either. So yesterday we went to church, ate lunch at the home, even had time for a little nap then made our way to Antigua. Kendon, Wendy, Daniel & Kara came with the 5 of us. We first arrived at the school. We met the director and then he led us to the first house where the other 3 interns are living. We got their bags to their rooms, got back in the van and went to our house. We dropped our bags in our room looked around a bit and then left to eat dinner.

When we got back from dinner we began to unpack our stuff and then the room got smaller. We began laughing a bit as it looked like our stuff just kept growing - about the time we unpacked everything we were really laughing. We decided that we should calculate how many square feet we are living in to help you all understand what we mean when we say small. Lee broke out his leatherman - it has a ruler on it. We measured a tile and then started counting...after a few calculations we can tell you that our bedroom and bathroom combined and including the shower is 115.5 square feet. Lee looked up and said "people go to jail in things bigger than this" I cracked up laughing and fell over on the bed that made a loud noise - which created more laughter.

We calmed down, and were just talking when we heard the lady who lives in the bedroom next to us hang up some clothes. We could hear the hanger clink against rod in her closet - it was then we realized that the walls are made of paper and that our host family was probably regretting that we moved in their house. Oh well.... we're much better guests now.

The story continues with breakfast this morning - we were supposed to be ready to eat at 7am - we walk in and find a mound of fruit with some yogurt and honey on top and peanut butter toast. The lady from Sweden who is also living in our house said "this must be for the Americans" then she proceeded to speak 90 miles an hour in spanish, which was fine as Lee and I were still decently sleepy.

School was fine - Lee is upstairs doing homework as I write this. I haven't started mine yet. We like our teachers and are looking forward to knowing the language well.

We returned from school just in time for lunch - we were first served a chicken soup that was delicious then we were served a plate with white rice, a Guatemalen style chili rellano, and a beet salad. Lee was a champ and ate all of the beet salad, I ate all I could. Again, our Sweedish friend spoke excellent spanish about 90 miles an hour in spanish.

Now, we're back at the school taking advantage of the free wireless internet and working on homework. Thank you to all who have prayed for us - for the past 3 nights I have slept so well (I've even taken a nap each afternoon!) Thank you for praying for our teachers and host family as well - we are blessed to have such support.