May be the longest blog ever

I hate it when I dont blog for a long time and then I start forgetting stuff and have to work backwards. But that is what I have to do. LINDSAY PREGGERS AND I'M SOOOO EXCITED! I can't wait for the little snots! Hopefully I will know enough spanish to be able to only speak spanish to them so they learn. Wow great! Ok, so my life. Today is tuesday, which I did nothing but sleep in and run errands cause tuesdays we dont have class and my doc wasn't there so I just watched a movie really. It's great having my computer here, I'm pretty much online always. Though that may change cause I'm going to add another volunteering thing so I have more to do. Monday I volunteered and had class. It's so hard to speak spanish after a weekend of not speaking it at all. So this past weekend we went to Lake Atitlan, Amy's friends were in town so we had planned on hiking to the lake but it didn't work out cause one of her friends scheduled their flights on sunday, not monday so we just went to the lake. There were 10 of us! Not the whole group but Amy, Jill, Greg, Elena, Andrew, Amy's 2 friends, John was there, Ruchi, and Ruchi's roommate. We took a direct bus to Panajachel then a 30 minutes boat ride to San Pedro. As we neared the lake, the clouds loomed and rain was for sure going to be coming, which it did on the boat ride. So we pack into this little boat with windows and head to San Pedro with rain in our faces...though the boat had a top and a tarp that we eventually put in front of the boat so we wouldnt get super soaked...it wasn't raining that bad either. So got to San Pedro where Amy and her friend already were since they came in the morning (we had to come later because of volunteering/class) and they had found the hotel we would be staying at. The hotel was great! It was nice and small, cheap, like Q130 a night so divided by 4 was perfect, and it was clean, nice bathrooms, hammocks in front of each room and plants and such. Pictures from other people to come, my camera was dead. So we get there and immediatley run into Amy and her friends at the closest restaurant to the dock, eating and boozing, perfect. We all sat and had some drinks and food to start out the weekend. The weather still wasnt great. Unloaded our stuff at the hotel afterwards...what else friday...well first of all this place is full of marijuana and probably any drugs you want. When you walk around you get whifs of weed often, there are people selling pipes everywhere and asking you if you want to buy drugs...interesting. Though there are a lot of little shops to buy gifts in too that you all will probably get stuff from at Christmas! Then after dropping our stuff off at the hotel we got some beer I think and hung around in hammocks. Then we went this bar called Buddha, I don't know why, drank more, played drinking games, bought some marijuana from a random as well as papers, oops, went home, smoked, I focused on cutting up a mango for us while jill and greg listened to some music...later jill passed out and greg and i played memory, ironic, then made up some random game with cards, it was interesting. Andrew was wasted and decided to not use the door and just climbed through the window, which at the time was hilarious. Then we all passed out...Saturday kicked ass. We all got up and had a great breakfast with bloody marys that were way spicy but only spicy after we swallowed them. Then later we bought a bunch of beer and headed out to rent 5 kayaks for the 10 of us. It was a beautiful day and super warm (by the way now it's raining really hard and has been for like 2 hours and it's sooo cold!) So we went out and tied out kayaks up and drank and laughed and it was perfect. The lake is beautiful. The only boats on it are the taxis from one place to another, which is weird to me cause the lake is beautiful and huge and since there arent any boats the water is so calm and flat. We proceeded to get tipsy then our 3 hours were up so everyone went in but jill and i. we stayed and finished out beers and talked of life and love, as usual. Afterwards is when things got interesting. Jill and i were pretty tipsy and having fun walking back to the hotel when we ran into our waiter from friday afternoon...who was like, hey come here, wanna smoke? Which it totally wasnt sketchy cause it was into a restaurant, wide open where people could see so we were safe so we went in...it was hilarious, we got so high and attempted to speak spanish then they would attempt to speak english and it was all screwed up...we all just laughed a lot and smoked 2 joints. it was soo fun, at one point jill and i just stood up and were like, thanks, and left...we went back to the hotel to see if anyone was there but they werent! jill and i were standing on the balcony upstairs when people in the group walked up and we completely geeked out and couldnt stop laughing...they got the idea right away. They came upstairs and jill and i could barely talk to them, it was hilarious, but because we were high we thought they didnt want anything to do with us so we though they hated us but they thought we were just being weird cause we were sitting in the hammock outside their room with their window open just looking in at them...so weird! Then, we went downstairs to put on our 80s spandex outfits and surprised them all with those, it as so great. Anyway, we took naps afterwards cause there would be no way to go out later...naps, then a bar, then another bar, the stole a kayak from earlier and kayaked a little which was awesome, then bedtime! The next day we didn't do much, just went back to panajachel and caught a bus back to xela, though, our bus broke down somewehre in the middle of guatemala so we had to get on a different bus that was packed...GREAT WEEKEND and going back again this weekend with the group.

Last week....god i dont want to blog moreee...I dont even remember last week much...lost my phone one night...actually I think someone stole it or it just fell out behind the bar cause all my other stuff was there like money and cc's. though someone is answering it. well today i went to take care of that but now i have to take a form to somewhere and bring it back monday and bla bla bla still no phone. i find i dont really need it much though. anyway, what else last week, nothing really, began volunteering projects, which i only did once since my doc wasnt in on wednesday and thursday she didnt have any patients. Last week Jill and I tried to hike up this hill nearby for exercise and got about halfway up when this truck came down and told us to be careful and that there was a lardon(theif) further up...we thought at first he was the creepy one but then he drove off so we turned around and walked down. pretty scary, good thing he was the one to tell us and we didn't find out for ourselves. We got a ride down from a truck full of natives cause they were scared of the ladron too and as we passed people they all kept turning around. I suppose it's kinda normal. Not going up there again, unless in a big group, armed and dangerous. I dont remember what happened, not too interesting. So the weekend before we went to a really small village near Huehuetenango for our construction project. It took about 6 hours to get there!!! The first 4 were on the way to Huehue, then another 2, standing in the back of a pickup truck, crammed with 10 of us, at least it wasn't raining. The ride up was really neat though, the landscape changed so much up the mountian. It seemed like we went from Guatemala to Scotland...the landscape changed so much. ...to be continued