I’m actually going, look I’m packed already! I finally finished my last exam for the quarter and I can relax for a few days, enjoy Thanksgiving, and be on my way to Central America! I am going to Quetzaltenango, called Xela (“Shayla”) for short. We’ll be arriving in Guatemala City, spending the first night there, and then taking a five hour bus ride to Xela. There we will go to the school we’ll be staying at, it’s called El Mundo en Espanol. We’ll take 20 hours of Spanish classes per week (“medical Spanish” my fellow students keep calling it. Well, I’m still working on basic Spanish skills, so we’ll see about that). We also will be doing some volunteering, but where that will be is to be decided.
There are a few things nearby that I am looking forward to seeing, like a nearby volcano, a big lake, and a village where people do lots of weaving. I am going with three fellow nursing students and I will have two and a half weeks to spend there. I hope that it all goes well! I will try to put some updates on here every so often.