Sunrise on Volcan San Pedro, sounds like a good idea, was a good idea but at 1:15am it wasn't as good. We left with our guide nicolas at 2am with head tourches to start the walk from town. San pedro is just on the side of the volcano with one small flatter area for the market. Along a road or two, pissing off a few dogs, one following us for a while and people letting off the 'bombas' at 2am... And many times later while people would be asleep. Onto small dirt t...

Time here is flying, we are almost through the lessons, picked up two more hours a day in the afternoon to take advantage of this opportunity. My teacher is Antonio, a nice 39 year old guy, his wife is also one of the 5 owners of the spanish school. A good teacher and he made learning spanish interesting. Sarah had a lovely lady called Rosa, who she got along really well with. For the first week they did a lot of writing, but after that they were able to talk mor...

Family outline Mother- Rosa Eldest son and 'man of the house' - Julio His wife and lovely lady that cooked us food half the time- Vilma The eldest daughter and bank worker - Linda Next, she has finished school but I'm not sure where she worked - Marila The second youngest and will be completing her final year of school next year- Melissa And youngest- Billy There is 1 dog 'black' and a puppy, Oso 4 cats, but 3 were kittens with one meowing constantly du...