Antigua

I'm safe and sound in Antigua. My flight arrived in Guatemala City around 9 last night. I took a shuttle to Antigua. There were two other people in it. Joe from Minneapolis and Sofie who lives in NYC but is Russian. Sofie was very stressed about having not planned, but went ahead with her stress and all anyways. Joe had been here before and was confident a cheap place to stay could be found even arriving between 10 and 11.

We found the Kafka Hostel. It had good ambiance and bad beds, but they were beds none-the-less. The beds were in a little 6 bed dorm room that a very unpleasant woman and her strange son were also staying in. They were pissed when they had to move their belongings, which were strewn about on every bed and in every cubby, but the hostel employee was pretty unapologetic about it.
There were also two cats in the room. Apparently there are a lot of cats at the place. Even being the animal lover I am, I found it strange to bring strange cats into your hostel bed.

This morning I got up and got lost. No seriously. And I blame it all on Lonely Planet. Normally LP has decent maps. Well the Antigua map in the Central America on a Shoestring guide is oriented all funny and they don't show it on the map. So I set off going East towards the spanish school I wanted to check out, but it ends up it was North West of where I was. Fortunately Antigua is small, so I just walked all over and eventually got to where I had originally intended.
On my way to La Union (the school I'll start at Monday), I bought some pineapple from a street vendor. It was sickly sweet and so I opted for some of the chili salt to cut the syrupy feel in my mouth.

This afternoon I moved into my room at the house I am staying in. The mom is named Elina and she has two dogs, who are my new best friends. They are about the size of Louie, and very gregarious. We all know I will not complain about friendly dogs.

Sadly the internet place I chose does not have memory card readers, so no pictures yet, but soon, very soon...

Hope everyone is having a lovely Saturday!

Oh and if you notice there are no contractions because I cannot find it on this keyboard.