Last year, Visions was fortunate to receive reports from UMR students who spent Spring Break in Guatemala, where they worked on water quality issues. This year, we've arranged for more dispatches from Guatemala. Jared Wehde, a senior in environmental engineering, is one of the UMR students who is currently in Central America. Jared will be the reporter in Visions' Guatemala bureau for the next two weeks. Check in every couple of days to read Jared's Journal, starting with this post.
The trip to Xela took around 12 hours. Six hours in airports and six hours in a van from Guatemala City to the Los Americas hotel where we will be staying. The lodging is comfortable and near a commercial area so we are definitely not without. After settling in, we atteded Spànish school classes Monday morning and will continue to do so all this week. The school was hidden amongst the bulidings and narrow streets but after walking inside the place felt very large. Every room and rooftop contained instructors providing us with one-on-one instruction. Monday afternoon, we arrived at CUNOC University. We were greeted by local students and given tours of the campus. It was easy to make freinds, even with some language barriers. The students were similar to us in many ways. We also took turns giving presentations about a typical day in the life of a student. We look forward to spending the rest of this week´s afternoons together. We will be busy this week with Spaninsh school and visitng CUNOC. Everything is going great so far. We will also be traveling to various sites around town.
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