Wow!!

Hey and hello! We arrived in Guatemala City Thursday night and since then it has been a lots of new impressions constantly! A few key words is however:

- lots of people in one car: yesterday we sat at in the back of a pick up (ute), 12 people and six inside. Then last night we went to a soccer match and were 23 people in a 8-seater taxi. Yes, it is crazy, and they drive like nuts, but it´s actually quite cool.

- food and drinks: for the past month we´ve heard that if we eat fresh fruit from the street, salad, uncooked meat, dodgy lollies and worst of all ice cream we will become sick as dogs, so at the moment we try to stick to "safe" food, being pizza and beer. The local brew, Gallo, (pronounced gAjo) is actually really nice (and this coming from me), but it beats VB (Australian beer), that´s for sure!!

- weather: it´s hot and nice. We´re up on 2600 moh on our way to Quetzaltenango (also called Xela), so we´re pretty high up in the mountains. The sun is warm during the day, but it gets pretty cold during the night.

- soccer: yes, I think I went to the coolest match ever last night! It was the local team Xelaju versus some loser other team, and the atmosphere was just spectacular. It beats Odd Grenland (local Norwegian team) and I´m pretty sure it beats the ANZAC day match in Australia too. It was just amazing and we were a big group of about 20 Norwegians screaaaaaming out cheers in Spanish. It was amazing, and as you all can see, the spirits werehigh!

Other than that it´s a very nice country. We haven´t seen lots of poor people yet, they seem happy with the little they´ve got, which I think definitively helps! We start language school tomorrow which I´m looking very much forward to, but that means I´m going to a host family by myself tonight which should be interesting. I mean last time I ended up in a host family it was brilliant, but you never know, not speaking the language at all. Nevertheless, it should be fun.

Til next time, adios!