Antigua – Day Two

I am really enjoying day two in Antigua, Guatemala.

We started our day like every day we will this week, with four hours of one-on-one Spanish language lessons at our school, Tecun Oman.

Ira is working hard at conjugating verbs and pronunciation with Edgar. I am spending my time hammering through the different reasons you use estar and ser (plus lots and lots of vocab) with Catalina.

Heading to our “Home” in Antigua

Every day at noon when Spanish lessons end, we walk 15 minutes to our homestay, the home of Doña Maria Lopez.

First, we head to our room to relax for 45 minutes (pushing your brain that hard for four hours of language study is hard!). Ok, I relax for 45 minutes and Ira checks work email.

Then, we have an amazing home-cooked meal made by the family cook, Jaunita. As part of our homestay, we receive three meals a day. I can honestly say I have never eaten this well on vacation in my life. Homemade tortillas, soup made from scratch with fresh, organic ingredients, incredible, fresh papaya and pineapple. I wish Jaunita lived in Deerfield and could cook for my family every day too. But then, my children would never move out, so maybe it’s good they are stuck with my culinary skills.

Cerro de la Cruz

After our lovely mid-day meal, we head back to our school, Tecun Oman, to go on another free guided tour the school arranges each day.

Today we walked 300 steps up a hill to Cerro de la Cruz, a gorgeous overlook of Antigua with a huge cross.

Sadly, I didn’t shoot too many photos today. The walk was incredible, but I had to keep putting my camera away because it kept raining on and off. 

Heading “Home” Again

And then we were off down the hill and through the town to go do our Spanish homework and wait in anticipation for our next amazing meal.

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