¡Hola Guatemala!

Antigua/Guatemala - Hiii everybody, just a quick word to let you know everything is okay up here! I´ve been in New York for a week and that was awesome.. Right now I´m in Antigua, a nice small kolonial town in Guatemala. I wondered if everything would work out, but it did, more than I expected. I was picked up at the airport in Guatemala City by the driver of the Spanish School I´m in (he had a paper in his hand with ´JANTINE VANT´ in huge green capitals, couldn´t miss that :))

I stay in a studenthouse with eight others from us, canada, holland, sweden and even liechtenstein. Aged all between 23 and 30... I was a bit afraid I would be an old woman here but that´s no problem. I helped Ana, the housekeeper, with dinner (Tina-dinner) and we ate with the whole group. Ana is 21 and has got 11 brothers and sisters. It turned out that yesterday everybody went out. It was ladiesnight - cuba libres for 20 cts.... (reminds me of Zwolle..) Luckily I heard this is not a daily habit, cause I´m here for other purposes right?! My room... ah well you can see it on the pictures, I think about organizing salsaclasses or futbol in there...

This place Antigua is sooo sweet, it looks like a fairytale, the little streets, the cobbledstones, the coloured houses, nature around it. But ofcourse it´s not. Most of the people are really poor. That´s something you have to realize when you´re in this kind of ´comfortable school-studenthouse environment´.

Right now I´m going out to find a lunch somewhere. By the way, my Spanish is quite allright, I didn´t know it was still there!

Groetjuuus Jantine