hello all,
So i just got back from spending the weekend in the city of Tikal, the mayan ruins. It was really cool to see how all of the ruins are still some what in tact. While we were there some of the girls and I decided to spend our money on a nice hotel where i got to take a hot shower!! It was so amazing i just stood under it letting the warm water run over my face for like 5 mins. haha. That night i also decided to treat myself to a nice dinner, steak and french fries. After an exhausting meal we all went to bed and woke up at four the next morning to see the sunrise at Tikal it was really nice, you could here the whole rainforest waking up. After wallking around for a few more hours we all packed back into the bus and drove back to San Andres. It is also amazing to see how used to the heat i have gotten because the other night it was so cold i had to get out my sleeping bag and turn off my fan and the coldest it got was 75 haha so that was pretty crazy its gonna be a shock when i get back to Boston. I hope everyone is doing well, ill write again soon.
xo soph

Hola,
So im sorry i havent put any pictures up yet the computers here arent that great and if i tried to they would all die and the city would lose power. So i am still in San Andres, the small city on the lake. And the last few days we have just been going to language school and chillin. We went to Flores the other day(its the biggest city in the area) and we walked around and had PIZZA!! it was amazing me and four other girls went and we ate like hungry wolves haha it was pretty funny. And mr. bogle there are no chocolate chips bummer, i know. Other then that we have just been relaxing by the lake and this weekend we are going to Tikal, the mayan ruins, so i will have more to tell yall when i get back so ill talk to you soon.
xo soph

Hello all,
I know it has been a while im sorry i have just been moving around and switching places. My current location right now is in San Andres, Peten in Guatemala. Im sorry but i am going to make everyone jealous, San Andres is beautiful we are staying on this lake that looks like a tropical ocean it has tropical turquois water, and it is so nice and warm. So besides swimming in the lake every afternoon, I have to go to language school in the morning but after that we go and do little activities and swim. So i am living in a house with a Grandma, Grandpa a mom dad and their four daughters(they love to hula hoop) it is so cute. Also my bedroom is seprate from the house it has two beds and i have my own fan but not only that but i have a view of the lake from my window and my own veranda with lawn chairs. Ok i will stop bragging about my amazing digs haha. So i hope everone is doing well and I will try to write more often.
xo Soph

Hello all,
I am still in Poptun and it has been storming like crazy it storms all night here which sounds pretty nice at night because all of the roofs here are made of tin. In poptun right now we have redirexted from digging the ditch because all of the neighbors we complaining and apperantly the director of the school who gave us the project had no idea what she was talking about so that was annoying but now we are working with the kids in the class rooms and we made masks of dogs lions and elephants they were so cute. I am writing to you from an internet cafe that costs me 5 questzales per hour and it is 7.50 Q for 1 dollar it is so cheap that is why i can blog so much. But we are leaving Poptun on Sunday and then going to out next homestay so i will keep you updates. Talk to you soon
Soph

Hello,
So right now we are staying in the village of Poptun, guatemala and we are in our first homestays. I got a really nice house the family is not so nice but we have running water a working toilet and a shower so that is pretty nice. We also started our projects today and we are clearing out an overgrow ditch but they dont really want to give us any real jobs because we are with mostly girls and we think we cant do anything. We are all getting along really well which is great and the bugs havent been too bad [knock on wood]. But it is really really hot but there have been a few rain showers here and there which is nice casue it cools everything down. I hope everything back home is good and i will write again soon.
sophie

Hey everyone so it is really easy for me to get to a computer here so i will blog as much as i can because it will become a lot less as i go on. Today i went white water tubbing with a good amount of the group and yes i did say tubbing it was awesome! we had to wear helmets and everything it was so cool we went off water falls and through rapids i have never done anything like it. Everyone in my group is really nice and cool. So hopefully ill be able to keep updating.
XO sophie

Guatemala

Hey everyone!!
I made it to Guatemala it is so hot here!! haha but i am getting used to it. I have already seen a tarantula it was huge and black!! and todaywe went cave climbing it was really intense and there were the holes that were crazy small and i barley made it through! so we are staying at this place called finco ixobel it is pretty nice and probably as nice as it is gonna get haha. Well hope everyone is doing well and i will try to talk to you soon. xoxo sophie