I Ate a Salad!

I arrived in Xela on Sunday and I´m having a pretty amazing time already. Here are a few highlights:

I woke up on the shuttle to Xela to see Lake Atitlan at sunrise. i don´t see too many sunrises but this one over a beautiful lake surrounded by green mountains and volcanoes was pretty spectacular. I have pictures of this which i´ll upload soon once i figure out how to do that.

After a quick nap at my hostel, I walked to the Central Parque in Xela where I ran into some girls from Holland I had met earlier and one of the teachers at the yoga studio in town. I already have ¨friends¨! the market was going on then, too, and i was tempted by all the yummy looking food but settled on some of the cooked sweets instead.

I woke up at 6am to go to the 6:50am beginners yoga class with another girl who´s staying at my hostel. It was a wonderful way to start the day and I´m thinking I´m going to make it a daily activity. When you go to bed at 9:30 or 10pm from exhaustion, getting up at 6 isn´t TOO bad.

To round out my first day in Xela, I went to watch the SuperBowl at a restaraunt called ¨Dos Tejanos.¨ It´s like I never left! Chicken Fried Steak, cheese fries, and futbol americano surrounded my plus giant paintings of vaqueros y Johnny Cash... The other students I went with assured me that eating produce at restaurants that obviously cater to tourists is fine and I was already really craving fresh veggies so i decided to chance it and ordered a taco salad. it was pretty delicious and so far, my stomach has survived!