The trip begins

Hello all. This will be my first post for the trip. Hopefully the first of many. The trip started out a little rocky. Its kinda funny but the only issues have been dealing with americans and American Airlines. We, Olga and I, hit our first roadbump when we were chcking in at SFO. Turns out countries dont like you flying in without a visa or proof that you will be leaving the country within 90 days. It took us a while but we finally convinced the ticket agent to check our luggage all the way to Guatemala as we didnt have time to collect our luggage in Chicago and check itwith Taca (which we didnt have time for because our flight out of SFO was delayed almost 2 hours). Unfortunatly, right before we got on the Taca flight we were told that our baggage didnt make it over anyway. Currently our bags are still in Chicago and will, hopefully, be here on Thursday at which point we have to go all the way back to Guatemala City from Antigua to pick them up.

Anyway, outside of that whole mess things have been great. Despite the fact that when we arrived we hadnt slept in over 24 hours we managed to check out a lot of Antigua our first day as well as set up language classes and meet some cool travelers. After grabbing some dinner we hit the hay at 7PM and slept for over 13 hours....

We had our first one on one classes today and I thought it very helpful (well worth the $5.40 we pay an hour). We plan on doing two weeks of classes and traveling on the weekends and our third week in the country. Class is from 8 to noon which leaves the afternoons free to explore. The school also offers daily activities with the students, who are all ages from all over the world, such as hikes to the top of the active volcano right outsie of the town, bike tours of the area, salsa classes, etc. Seems to be a great way to see the area and meet lots of other travelors at the same time.

I have posted a couple picts from the trip so far and will set up a Shutterfly account soon to post more.