Spanish School in Antigua

Day 9 (July 7, 2018) - Antigua, Guatemala

It's been a whole week since we posted. Why? We've been busy taking Spanish lessons in the mornings, followed by self-study in the afternoons. It's actually quite the draining activity. We're attending the Don Pedro Spanish School, and each day this week (Mon to Fri) we had four hours of intense study with a Spanish tutor (one-on-one). I can't speak for Mark, but it is very slow going for me. Although Mark took Spanish in high school (and he's picking things up faster), I took German. I think my (slim) knowledge of the German language and their odd sentence structure is screwing up my ability to make proper sentences in Spanish. Then there's the whole memorizing all new words and verb conjugations. But, I'm having fun and learning new things, so I can't complain. Here's the most useful thing I've learned this week: "Yo tango que ir el baño," which means "I have to go to the bathroom." Very useful stuff.

Travis outside the Don Pedro Spanish School

We have one more week of lessons at this school, and then we'll continue studying on our own as we travel throughout Central and South America. Our lessons in Antigua have been quite the crash course in Spanish, but they have been very helpful to get things going. We'll probably just get the hang of the language, and then we'll have to leave to go to a non-Spanish speaking region of the world (Australia/New Zealand/Southeast Asia/etc.). Oh well. Maybe we can start learning Thai as well.