Today we had a day of firsts. At 5am we experienced our first temblor, a small earthquake. But enough that we woke up in the night. There was one again at 9am at school. My teacher took me outside. It is strange to not have sturdy ground, but we are glad to have that out of the way. We also experienced our first "chicken bus" ride. They got their name because they are known to transport chickens on top of them, and today we noticed that they also are brought on board. They are painted school buses that are very cheap and kind of crazy. We went with the school up to the mountain pueblo San Andres. To get there, besides the chicken bus, we also had another first, we were packed like cattle in the back of a pick-up, riding up the mountain standing the whole way. That is something you don´t do in Calgary too often. It had an amazing view and a very old colonial spanish Catholic Church there. It was incredible. So we are getting more accostomed each day "cada dia" to la vida aqui. We are starting to speak a lot of Spanglish and hopefully we will soon be able to speak closer to actual Spanish. That is all for now. I think we went over our half hour free internet, so we will donate a few Quetzales now. One Canadian Dollar is about 7 Q. We are able to have a coke now and again for about 35 cents which is a nice treat. In the cool glass bottles too! Adios.
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Good to hear that you guys are enjoying yourselves so far!
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