Karen Dos and I took a few days off school end of last week and had a long weekend trip Lake Atitlan. We met up with another one of our friends from school who had been there for a week. We stayed on San Marcos, one of the 12 or so little towns around the lake - most of which are named after the 12 disciples.

It almost seemed that we had left Guatemala when we arrived at San Marcos. There is a center for medidation and yoga there and there were a lot of foreigners who are there to do just that. It was nice and relaxing although it did feel a little strange. I hardly spoke any Spanish the whole 4 days. I didn`t really like that. But i did do a a little yoga which was really nice since it`s been ages since I have had a chance to. I also went to a medidation session which was extremely relaxing. It was a place called Las Piramides, all off the bungalows, temple were the shape of pyramids. Most of the buildings are rather new as well which gives the town a simple resorty feel.

I also went to another town San Pedro, which is larger and more popular with backpackers, to hike a small volcano called the Indian Nose because the face of the mountain resembled that of a face of an Indian with a big nose. Even though it wasnt that high up the heat and dense bushes made it quite an effort to get to the top, but that did earn us a nice view of the entire lake and surrounding towns and volcanoes.

I am back in Xela once again - my last week here...it's kinda sad but I am really excited for Charlie to get here and do some traveling. I also think that my brain is about filled up with as much Spanish as it could take.