I think I accidentally told my teacher I wanted to have sex with her. I also said I'd just returned from a meeting with some hotties. Such are the mis-statements one makes when you can't speak Spanish worth a damn but aren't afraid to just start saying whatever words you know.

Today I finished the last of my five five-hour long classes. It was a complete waste of time. Not that it's anybody's fault but my own. Having had a few years to forget college, I'd forgotten that I can't learn by sitting in front of a teacher and writing notes. I just have to do something and learn as I go. I'm sure that, had I just told her, my teacher would have been more than happy to just talk with me, helping me out when I needed to learn a new word to say whatever was on my mind. But I didn't, and as such I haven't learned a damn thing. Oh well.

"People were staring."
Quetzaltenango is beginning to wear on my nerves a bit. I'm not sure exactly why. The people are very nice. It's reasonably safe by Guatemalan standards. And it's surrounded by beautiful mountains. I think some of the other foreigners here are bugging me a bit. One particularly entertaining incident involved a fellow American loudly making fun of "typical tourists," never realizing she was being the typical loud, obnoxious American. How ironic. People were staring.

"It was like Denver had a mall they weren't using."
Oh, I went to the mall a couple of days ago. Not the little crappy mall I may have written about before. This is a full-on food court, Gap, theater, Nautica mall. There's even a Bell South store. What's with that? It was bright, clean and new. And just a few blocks from a somewhat nasty, smelly market / bus terminal. Seriously, it was like Denver had a mall they weren't using and had it shipped down here to Guatemala. There'll be photos at some point. There was also a Wal-Mart-like store with groceries, electronics and furniture.

So I'm off tomorrow to Panachel on Lago de Atitlan. From what I hear it's jammed with hippies and clueless slackers who just lay around all day getting high. It may be a brief visit. But there are other towns dotted around the lake that are supposedly pretty amazing. I'll spend a few days around the lake before heading on to Antigua and Guatemala City. Then, finally, I move on to Honduras. I've been in Guatemala for entirely too long.