first days

We are now here. After two three hour flights we stayed at a hotel in the capital of Guatemala, Guatemala city. Then we taxied to Antigua which is where we are doing our language school. Sadly when we got there we could not get into our room so we went for a walk. We passed a lot of horse drawn carriages… peyew! It stunk so bad we had to hold our breaths. About an hour later we got into our apartment, and had to walk back to the market for groceries. It felt like we had walked five miles with two weeks of food on our backs, but it was really only one, and it’s eighty-five degrees down here!.                                                                                                                                       EK

On our flights we met two gentlemen that we decided to pray for as a family. The first man “Army guy” was being deployed from GR to travel to the “far east”. He was leaving behind his wife and his four home schooled children under the age of ten. That puts things into perspective. The second man “Tex” bought the boys movies on the flight because he felt bad that their parents wouldn’t.                                          

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Today (monday) we did things twice as fun. In the morning we started our language school at San Jose el Viejo. It is a very pretty campus and we learned a lot. After that we walked up a mountain so we could look over the whole city of Antigua. We could also see the volcano called Volcan de aqua(water volcano). This volcano is about 3,765 meters above sea level. After this we went to a hotel that was made from a restored ruin of a church. There were a bunch of parrots on big sticks. It was so much fun with them only one could talk but we got him to say “I am an idiot” haha it was so funny!. The last thing we did today was going to the jade factory. Jade is a precious stone that is almost as hard as diamond. In fact the only thing that the factory is able to shape it with is… diamond.                                EK

Our first day of language school was not a surprise. Evan embraced it with enthusiasm, Boyd coasted by, it only took Joan one hour to convince Maestra Judy to go for a walk for local banana bread, and Mrs. Hossink at Holland Chr. just moved up a level in Adam's eyes since he doesn't like the spanish school because he cant understand his teacher. :)                                                                     JK