Tonight I went to my first session of the Central American Studies class I am required to attend before I can go on the Guatemala Study and Serve trip. I am definitely on brain overload right now! But more excited than ever to get to go! I am traveling with an amazing group of young women from all walks of life! Our instructors are encouraging, helpful, and kind. Even though the trip is not for another 5 months, they answered all my questions. Once I started to see pictures of the places in Guatemala that we would travel, I got even more excited! There will be a whole 5 hours, every day, for 6 weeks, of one-on-one Spanish training with a different speaker every week! Even thought that's the "school" part of the trip, I think that's the one I'm the most excited about! After all, the main goal of this trip is to become fluent.
However, this class will be a lot of work! There are 9 required books for the course! And for someone who hasn't been in college in the last 6 years, that is a LOT of reading to do in my not-so-ample free time! I will have to plan out a designated study day and time to make sure it gets done. But I know they're all important to prepare me for what I will find when I'm there. As someone who knows nothing about Guatemala and has never been out of the country before, I will need as much preparation as I can get!
Here's to spending the next 5 months learning!
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