The rule of three

Happy Valentins Day, all! I know I´m a day late and all, but anyway...We decided to celebrate the day of love last night (actually not true, it was just a great excuse to hang out and have a few Gallos.) Before we came to Guatemala we were filled with stories of great danger, armed robberies and what worse is, so the school set up a rule saying we always have to be three together. We´ve made great fun of this little rule, pretending to find two others just to go the the bathroom or get a drink etc. However, this early morning at 1am we discovered it wasn´t such a stupid rule... Xela is a great city, but at one in the morning it´s kinda scary. We live in host families all over the city and struggled slightly to find a way so no one had to go home by themselves. I ended up going home with one of the other girls, Kristin and staying at her place. In Xela there are lots of stray dogs, which you take no notice of during the day, but when it´s dark and you are alone...not so funny! We came to her place and she struggled big time with the keys. After five minutes or so two men came up and asked whether we needed help. We did, but were also so ready to drop everything and run if they were up to no good. But, our guardian angels opened the front door and we were "safe" inside. Because the crazy killerdog of the house had woken up during our attempt to get in and went nuts, we hoped it was tied up somewhere and luckily made it to Kristin´s home. Because Guatemala is a country were tomorrow tomorrow is the general rule we had little information about our host family, and I had no way to contact them to say I wouldn´t make it home because I was all by myself. I was scared they would freak out and call the police, but when I came home at 6.30am this morning they were find with my explanation it was "muy peligrosa" (dangerous) walking home by myself.

So, a rather interesting night and day, now we´re going to have our first meeting with Kabáwil, the Mayan earth reform organisation. Take care!