El otro parte...

The other half of my day was pretty cool. After I got settled into my hostel, I decided that it would be best if I picked up a cell phone. So, upon the suggestion of Kent, a cool guy from Holland who helps out at the hostel I'm at, I headed to a fairly large indoor-outdoor mall type thing to pick up a cell phone. Now, this would be relatively boring, until you factor in the fact that a) I had to take a cab through Guatemala City (not the best drivers) and b) I had to do every single part of buying it and activating it and coordinating the cab completely in Spanish.

After doing all of that, I started to feel a little more comfortable speaking Spanish, because people actually understood me and I could more or less understand them. So, I headed back to the hostel and kicked around for little while, almost falling asleep several times, and then ate some dinner (penne con alfredo). In the midst of almost falling asleep and watching Hitch in spanish, I happened downstairs as the other guy staying at the hostel was there. Turns out he is from Philadelpia and has been volunteering here for the past 3 ish months. We started to talk to Lorena, the owner of the hostel, and then continued on for close to another 2 hours. We talked politics, economics, religion, travel, and pretty much everything in between. However, the part that made it realllllllyyyy cool for me is that we all three knew english fluently, yet we all chose to speak entirely in spanish.

Tomorrow, I wake up and head to Pana with Hands of Healing, and I'm super psyched about the adventure!

BTW, I changed it so that anyone can now leave comments. Y'all should test it out;]