In Xela, it's been raining a lot and it's really beautiful to watch the rain and the mist in the mountains. We've been doing a lot of stuff the past week, so today we vegged out while it rained and watched that Mall Cop movie with the guy from King of Queens...in Spanish! The movie was terrible...I mean, really terrible, but watching it in Spanish was hilarious!
We had our first ride on the chicken bus this morning coming back from some natural hot springs not too far from where we are staying. If its has ever been possible for something one might imagine to be mundane to be super fun and also terrifying it was this! The chicken buses are recycled school buses from the USA. They send them down here, give them a makeover consisting of fresh paint, CD player, religious effegies, and maybe some crazy christmas lights. It felt cool to use the mode of transportation that most Guatemaltecos use, but I'm not going to lie, I did fear for my life a few times (especially when we passed a cargo truck going about 75 mph going around a curve on the side of a mountain). But we made it!
Tonight is Jason's last night here, so our family is throwing him a good-bye fiesta complete with comida Xelateca, globes, musica, and maybe a little vino. Muy excellente!
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