Tarea Español - Spanish homework

It´s like being back at school. Here´s my latest opus:

Adventuras de Chris el Crocodilo - Chris tiene hambre

Una dia Chris el crocodilo pienso:
-tengo hambre. Quiero comer alog-
Chris el crocodilo vivó en un zoologica por eso el estuvo en un jaula con altos muros.
-tengo muy hambre. Voy a comer este tarde-
En este momento, un chico apareció.
-Hola senor crocodilo- dijo -¿Como estas hoy?-
-tengo muy hambre. ¿Puedes me traer unas comida por favor?-
-si tengo un gran jamón aqui! ¿te gusta jamón?-
-si much gusta!-
El chico intendó dar jamón a Chris pero no lo cupo entre las rejas.
-subes a muro y as me lo- djo Chris
Entonces el chico subió el muro y bajó en el jaulo.
Chris comió el jamón y tambien el chico!
-ahora no tengo hambre- dijo Chris -voy a comer un otro chico mañana-
Ahora Chris estas gordo!

FIN

Estoy poco enfermo

Well, it was bound to happen, stick a lot of people from all over the world on an aeroplane for 10 hours, everyone at school is coming down with something.

I have a sore throat and feel like crap. I have explained to my teacher the concept of "man flu". So far not much sympathy....

This weekend I think we are all going to go to the beach. Hopefully sun sand and see will fix me up!

Spanish is progressing well, I think in a few weeks time I might actually be able to hold a conversation that lasts more than 30 seconds.

Oh, and yesterday, just after finishing a conversation with Rob telling him how fantastic the weather was, it chucked it down.

Today is bright and sunny again though, so the world is good!

1st week completed

Not much to report today. Settling into life in Antigua. Spanish is progressing, but definitely not getting enough practice.

New accommodation is good, but the bed is a little bit uncomfortable and the springs make a rather alarming noise if you move around too much.

6am is my wake up call when the bells of the local church start their half hourly routine.

Tonight I think I'll probably catch a film and a couple of beers.

Lunes 27 Noviembre

Up bright an early again, had to pack my bags, today I moved into "homestay" with the school. I now have a new family. Friendly bunch of people haven´t quite worked out who everyone is yet, but it´s good for practicing the old español.

Spent the morning in school and the afternoon took a leasurely stroll up to a local landmark (who´s name I now forget, I´ll add it tomorrow).



Great view back across town to the volcano. Keep forgetting that Antigua has been destroyed several times by earthquakes. It´s only a matter of time before one of these "inactive" volcanos gets a bit excitable and takes the town out again.



Couple of beers in the afternoon watching the sun go down and then home for dinner with the family. Got some Spanish homework to do, more verbs to learn and more grammer. Early night tonight, need a bit of rest.

Fin de Semana - Domingo

Early start today. Up at 6am to catch the bus to Chichacastananga (almost impossible to pronounce unless you sing it to the sound of the cucharacha song).

There is a famous market on Sundays that apparently is a must see. I´m not great fan of shopping, but what can you do....

The mmarket was not too bad, bumped into a couple of friends from earlier in the week which was nice and we stopped for a beer at lunch time, so all in all it was a pretty good day. Managed to buy myself a new hat - lost the previous one somewhere, possible up on the volcano. So my old hat probably suffered a horrible burning death. New hat is very good.

There were a few interesting sights in the town, the graveyard was pretty colourful, though I´m not sure I´d want to burried under something that looks like a portable toilet.



Strange going ons at the local church, not sure what the smoke was about.



Here is an example of someone playing atypical Guatemalan music. Patrick More would be in heaven here!