Week of Dec 12 - Quetzaltenango

We're in Xela for a week - another week of Spanish classes and living with a 'host family'.

Here´s a couple pics of the place we stayed at in Quetzaltenango. It's a little less than we´ve become accustomed to - In Antigua the house we were in had a courtyard about three times the size of this one, filled with an orange tree, palm trees, hibiscus and roses. They also had a gardner and two maids/cooks. We knew we had it pretty good there, but Xela was still a little bit of shock. Its an elderly lady who seems to be running some sort of hostel/restaurant. We made the mistake of saying there was nothing we didn't eat, and we were served up a feed of organ meat. We never figured out whose organs though. And there was always somebody different wandering around or washing their socks. We We never figured out who most of them were.

Xela is fairly high up, so the nights and mornings were cold - probably right around zero. Something else we're not used to.