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From –40 to Tiki Huts
Hey, so the second semester has finally arrived!!! On Jan. 14 most of us students met up at CMU very excited to see one another again and to travel on to Guatemala. That night we drove through the night on a very cold bus for 8 hours to Minnesota where we got on our first flight to Dallas Texas which was very exciting for us, because that’s where we met up with all our Ontario friends that flew out earlier that morning. After the very happy reunion we all got on our flight to Guatemala and arrived their safely! It was very exciting driving through the city and looking out the windows of the landscape around us. We drove to Camp Adulam where we have been staying for the past couple of days. It was lots of fun first exploring the camp the night we arrived; we were really stoked about the nice cabins. Also they have these little Tiki huts all over the place surrounded with new trees and brush that made it really obvious that we were in a new country. The next morning we woke up excited to see our new home in daylight. It was really amazing because the camp looks over a valley of little Guatemalan homes and gardens that look like something out of a movie. Everything just seemed so much more real that we were actually in Guatemala! During our time here we have been reviewing some basic Spanish and learning about the culture and about culture shock. We have been at the camp for a couple of days and we are now really stoked to go beyond our camp walls and explore this neat and different country. The only down fall so far is that it has not been as warm as we had hoped but that is supposed to change when we head to San Juan and Antigua tomorrow. But it still beats the heck out of being back in Winnipeg where it was –40. Anyways that’s all for now! Today we head for Antigua to explore and shop around. Tomorrow we meet our host families, which will be awkward but exciting, so we’ll keep ya’ll updated.
See ya!
Hey, so the second semester has finally arrived!!! On Jan. 14 most of us students met up at CMU very excited to see one another again and to travel on to Guatemala. That night we drove through the night on a very cold bus for 8 hours to Minnesota where we got on our first flight to Dallas Texas which was very exciting for us, because that’s where we met up with all our Ontario friends that flew out earlier that morning. After the very happy reunion we all got on our flight to Guatemala and arrived their safely! It was very exciting driving through the city and looking out the windows of the landscape around us. We drove to Camp Adulam where we have been staying for the past couple of days. It was lots of fun first exploring the camp the night we arrived; we were really stoked about the nice cabins. Also they have these little Tiki huts all over the place surrounded with new trees and brush that made it really obvious that we were in a new country. The next morning we woke up excited to see our new home in daylight. It was really amazing because the camp looks over a valley of little Guatemalan homes and gardens that look like something out of a movie. Everything just seemed so much more real that we were actually in Guatemala! During our time here we have been reviewing some basic Spanish and learning about the culture and about culture shock. We have been at the camp for a couple of days and we are now really stoked to go beyond our camp walls and explore this neat and different country. The only down fall so far is that it has not been as warm as we had hoped but that is supposed to change when we head to San Juan and Antigua tomorrow. But it still beats the heck out of being back in Winnipeg where it was –40. Anyways that’s all for now! Today we head for Antigua to explore and shop around. Tomorrow we meet our host families, which will be awkward but exciting, so we’ll keep ya’ll updated.
See ya!
By Trevor Bach
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