Lots going on.  Getting acclimated to Antigua, Spanish, and living under a volcano.  Check it out:

Those clouds are covering it’s peak.  Just follow the lines of each side and you get the idea.  Things have been such a whirlwind that I don’t yet know the name of it.  Instead I’m trying to learn the names of a million other things (i.e. la cuenta = the check/bill) and trying to remember when to say un, una, los, las, de, a, al, lo, la, ti-da…

I just started Spanish classes today.  Each day, we spend 4 1/2 hours speaking one-on-one with an instructor.  I have 2 different instructors, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.  After my last session, my brain was pretty exhausted. It’s quite an experience trying to force the small words you know into something logical, much less correct.

Everyone says that by the end of the week I’ll see a huge spike in my Spanish.  I hope so.  I’m working hard at it.  In fact, I need to run back a mi casa to complete my tarea (homework).  I don’t want to disappoint mi maestro, Sergio!