WARNING - Do not read this if you are squeamish!! The volcano picture represents what happened in my stomach! Well just when I thought things couldn´t get any worse I was struck down cruelly with nasty diarrhoea and vomiting, my stomach felt so bloated I thought I was going to explode. Luckily I didn´t! So after a long night alternating between the toilet and the sink I thought I had better go and see a doctor. I went to a very posh private hospital where th...

Just a quickie to let you all know my plans for the next 3 weeks, I don´t know how easily I´ll be able to get onto the internet. I´ve booked myself onto a tour (the map is the route!) and I´m very very excited to be seeing some more of the area. If you are interested you can read the details at http://www.tucantravel.com/tour.php?tour_id=65 hopefully there will be some fun people booked with me and we´ll have a good time! So I leave Antigua on Friday for s...

Well...where to begin. Its been a strange week or so since I last wrote and everything has been turned on its head. I left Antigua on the Friday and arrived at the beach in the middle of a typhoon. It became very clear very quickly that I wasn´t going to be happy at the project. It wasn´t the project´s fault, its me (well the hundreds of thouseands of mosquitos didn´t help!). I think I must have changed a bit, maybe grown up a little, since coming back from...

Hello everyone. Welcome to part 2 of the exciting blog Today is my last day in Antigua and I´m heading to a beach whch I hope will look like the one in the photo! I´m really excited about the beach and going somewhere hotter than here and staerting work. Turns out that I´m rubbish at Spanish and school was a bit of a chore. I´ve got an hour and a half before being picked up. There isn´t much more to tell you really so I hope to write again soon, when I have...

Hello everyone, here is my first blog...how exciting! Well after a shaky couple of days at home and in London I finally arrived in Guatemala City and found everyone I was supposed to really easily! We drove straight from the airport to Antigua which is a gorgeous colonial town about 45 minutes away. I am staying with a family in the town until Friday when we head off to the beach and the reserve for some tree hugging (hooray!). There is another English girl (Am...