Mama,

School’s really good, I get one on one tuition, had it today, have it tomorrow, don’t have it wednesday (Guatemalan Independance Day) and then have it Thursday and Friday. Tomorrow is ladies night in all the bars in Antigua, so we’re going on a bar crawl cause we get free drinks until 11pm and then cheaper drinks than the guys uuntil early hours. I live with a german, two americans and Ashley. Another British student should be coming on Independance Day - which is, by the way, a massive festival all over Antigua, with drinking all day long. Score. Score. Score.

Money might be an issue, cause the bank are dipshits and in Antigua, its balls trying to use US dollars, cause they can’t freaking work out the difference between Dollars and Quetzels. Its really funny at night, cause there is no time frame between day and night, its like, one second its day, you get a minute of sunset, then BAM its night, or maybe thats cause we were drinking haha. Beer, cigarettes and internet is so cheap that I should be able to get on more often. Everything else is pretty much cheap, but not as cheap as I thought it would be.

This weekend we’re hopefully hitting up the beach, its about an hour away and we’re gonna stay the weekend, me, Taylor and a french student who I go to school with are going, and then we think a bunch of other people will go, hopefully we can convince Ashley, whose a bit more freaked about the weather than we are. Didn’t get to see te Guatemalan City sinkhole and we’ve been given orders numerous times to not going into Guat City because its dangerous. By the way, its roasting hot here, but rains all the time, and when it rains, it really really rains. I miss you guys a lot, but I love this country and this town. Its the most beautiful place I have ever seen and I am so in love with it.

I can’t wait to start work next week, not sure what my placement is, and tell dad he was right and I have had to keep a diary for fear of forgetting what ive seen and done. The foods taking some getting used to, for breakfast we had like a massive fruit salad, but they also give you bread with every meal, and coffee with this kind of sweet bread, to us it’d be like a buiscuit, but apparantly in Guatemala there is no such thing as a buiscuit, its really wierd. 
British and Scottish traditional stuff is like, alien to not only the Guatemalans, but the American’s we live with. Its so weird, but I feel like i’ve got a whole other family here, like, I have mama and papa, then my brother and sister who both have a kid each, though only my sisters child lives with us, but then also, I have Seb, my German brother, Jesse, my american brother, Taylor and Ashley my sisters.

And I mean, we’re all so comfortable with each other and we take care of each other. One of the people I live with is the most fasinating person I have hands down, EVER met, and I cant wait to tell you about him. I’ve met loads of friends from school and hanging out in Antigua, from all over the show. I never ever ever ever want to come back to England. I want to come back here, for sure and as soona sI get back im looking into a way that I can stay here longer.

But, I do miss you and I love you, Its weird not hearing your voice nag at me every day! xxxxxxxxx