Friday, March 20, 2009

San Marcos/ San Pedro Laguna

After a ridiculouse 12 hours journey over Guatemala City and Antigua my boat finally arrived in San Marcos, where I wanted to study spanish. This place in famouse as a yoga retreat. You could take courses for a whole mooncycle and meditate in primitiv pyramids that are located according to some really mystical stars. During the last week you are not allowed to talk and you have to fast. Crazy shit. Since there were no partys in the evening and the lessons were expensive I switched to the other side of the lake.

San Pedro Laguna is the best party city in Guatemala. A lot of turists try their first hard drugs here and a lot of people stay here for years. So it's possible that you encounter dudes at 10 AM sitting on the side of the road first whispering and than yelling "Monkeytrousers".
I finally found my spanish school and signed up for the afternoon. Sitting in a nice garden on a small table. On the other side was this 20 year old mayan girl. After starting with a little chat we talked some more and more. Than finally I asked if this is the lesson and got an "of course" in return. There were no concepts, no modules, no books and she even didn't speack any English. So I had to step on the breaks and finish this rendez-vous style school. From then on I stack to my books and learned by myself. In the evenings I hung out with an austrian girl named Bianca until I crossed Matt's and Kalib's way. Naturally we got wasted. Young americans tend to consume hard drugs like candy. I was fine with the rum. The days past with learning in the afternoon and partying in the evening. Than Rachel and Grace came back from Mexico. I surprised them at the harbour with Matt. We were sitting in the bar at the lakeside for 4 hours becouse the girls were late. So we were in pretty drunken state. But sober enough for another beer. The next few days we went kayaking, eating nice food and enjoing the nightlife. Life got easy, very easy.

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