day of fun!

WOW. What a day!! I'm sitting here completely drenched in sweat because I just played 3 hours of soccer on a basketball court with our guard Henry, Oliva and Eric. It was an absolute blast. I scored about six goals and probably have about six blisters haha.

Earlier, we had orientation which was just more of the same information from yesterday. Basically I have to go in there and take the initiative based on what I see needs to be done. I am SO GLAD I know spanish! I wish I was more fluent though. It's all part of the learning experience.

After orientation we meandered to the ATM which we actually walked right by yesterday and didn't notice. From there, we walked over a large bridge that went over the traffic to a little supermarket. On the way, Eric heard a guy say to Olivia and me, "Cuanto cuesta por un hora?" ... translates to how much do you cost for an hour. Virginia warned us that men think women from America will sleep with anyone. Seriously? I'm in a knee length skirt, my waterproof Jesus shoes and a conservative white tee with a FANNY PACK. That pretty much screams you're not getting any.

We ate some lunch, and watched the world cup with Henry. We waited for the rain to stop until our next adventure to the cathedral which was huge and very amazing. The market was close by and they had demonstrations with large groups gathered around the presenter. We were the ONLY non Guatemalans in that entire place.

The last adventure we had was soccer as I mentioned earlier. Henry took us to a basketball court and invited some amigos. I have to say that was the most running I have done since about March because of having mono. I had to sit down but I was so dizzy that I couldn't even think of the sentence in Spanish I wanted to say so I just stuck to some hand gestures. I don't think I'm going to need to worry about getting a work out in here to say the least if we can keep this up.

Another funny thing about this place is that there is a talking parrot outside the house that can say a few words like hola and names of the workers. He bit Olivia earlier so not the sweetest guy but maybe we will grow on him haha.

Tomorrow will be fun. Its the first day at my placement and we are going to a museum in the afternoon and then more soccer!! or futbol. I'm lovin it. Until tomorrow!! <3>