prelude

¡hola todos! ¿comó están? espero muy bien. estoy bien, pero cansada. mi clase estuve muy bien hoy, pero mi desayuno estuve muy malo. comimos "oatmeal". yo odio "oatmeal".

escribiré esta noche para Tikal y otro cosas. ¡Tikal estuve muy bueno! me guste mucho, especialmente los arboles. ¡vimos monos!

mañana aprenderé futuro, pero necesito practicar presente, imperfecto, y prerito mas. estoy alegre para aprendiendo tiempos. están muy necesario.

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hello everyone! how are you all? i hope very well. i am fine, but tired. my class was very good today, but my breakfast was very bad. we ate oatmeal. i hate oatmeal.

i will write tonight about Tikal and other things. Tikal was great! i really liked it a lot, especially the trees. we saw monkeys!

tomorrow i will learn Future, but i need to practice Present, Imperfect, and Past more. i am happy about learning tenses. they are very necessary.

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otherwise, things are fine. i had a nice vacation at the hotel. even though the room was FREEZING (yes, it finally turned winter here and my room got NO sun exposure), it was quiet and wonderful. i studied quite a lot and feel a lot better about my learning for the next (and last) three weeks. and i slept well. and i ate well. and i got to just be and it was nice.

then my friend arrived and we walked a lot and went up Cerra de la Cruz and ate a lot of food and went to Tikal. she's been helping me study which is a big help. we've moved back to the house (on Saturday), so we got to eat dinner with the family and meet two new students.

Katarina and Andres from the Czech Republic. they speak very good spanish, of course, and she seems to be a very picky eater. the first night we had tamales and she didn't even eat half of it. and this morning with oatmeal she didn't eat much of it either, but i left before she claimed to be finished, so maybe today was just slow eating. either way, they seem to be a nice couple, but don't know if they are married or just dating.

so anyways, life has been busy, as usual. i will write a lot about Tikal and post pictures tomorrow. i'm sure you're anxious to "read all about it." :-)