La Guaderia!!

Wednesday night was supposed to be dance class (I´m learning salsa and meringue... Dave and I can really ´cut a rug´now haha... OK I got some comments on me using that phrase but it is totally not an old people´s saying and I´m sticking to it). So Dave, Carolyn and I went to Salon Tecun to meet up with Abby and Brian for some drinks and dinner (for them). OK so the service at Tecun is not the best in the world... you might actually call it the worst after this. Abby and Brian ordered hamburgers and nachos (as an appetizer). It took one hour for the ´nachos´ to show up and they were just chips with a bowl of salsa and cheese on the side. Another hour later, they still hadn´t received their burgers and started asking the waitress about it. She finally brought out a weird looking sandwich (like roast beef or ham or something) and tried to walk away quickly but, of course, she was stopped. She claimed that if they didn´t eat this wrong order, it would take another hour or so to get their actual correct order... which is just ridiculous. Abby and Brian ended up going to McDonald´s where surprisingly the service is ridiculously amazing. They are soo attentive and wanting to please, it´s hysterical.
Thursday I had class in the morning and in the afternoon, I went to the guarderia which is a nursery/after school program in a neighboring town. I LOVE THE GUADERIA. I walked in the door and immediately one of the kids (maybe 4 or 5 years old) ran up and wanted me to pick her up. I picked her up and threw her in the air... which she absolutely loved. I finally was able to put her down after lots of prompting and I sat down at a table to help kids with math. Another little girl immediately crawled into my lap and all the kids are just yelling ´como te llamas?´ the entire time. I realized that my spanish is probably more at the level of the 2 and 3 year olds, so I moved to the floor with all the blocks and little kids. The kids just could not get enough of crawling all over me and playing games with me... honestly, this is my idea of the absolute best way to spend an afternoon. After all that fun at the guaderia, Dave, Brian, Abby, Maggie, and I went to a restaurant to meet one of my new students in my orientation group (totally random, right? I emailed my group and one just happened to be studying spanish in Xela!!). It turns out that Brian already knew him because he went to Williams... such a small world.