My planned post on ethical qualms and cross-cultural friendship will have to be put on hold, because I am exhausted after a weekend trip to Lake Atitlan. I should not be exhausted, because all I did all weekend was eat, swim, drink and lie around. After all that intense relaxing, though, I’m tired and ready for bed.
In any case, my fourth trip to the lake (this time to the weird but beautiful new-agey village of San Marcos la Laguna) was lovely. Some of the factors making it a grade-A weekend:
1) It was free. That’s right, free. I was given the trip as a gift from my Spanish school for recruiting more business through my newspaper articles in Canada.
2) It was sunny. That’s right, sunny. Sunny and warm.
3) Great people. I’m happy to have two of my favourite friends from last summer back in Guatemala. In addition to hanging out with them, I got to know more great people from my Spanish school. Most of the people I got to know were really cool early 30-somethings. You know, the kind of fun and interesting people that makes me excited, not scared, of reaching my 30s.
4) The perfect set-up for a night of drinking: around a table at the hotel, with plenty of silly drinking games and dares.
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