muchos cambios hoy

I'm having a bit of an odd day, which really began yesterday. First, Janet, who is one of the sisters who runs the school, showed up at my door right before lunch yesterday. The first thing I could think of was that I was in trouble, although that's clearly a pretty absurd proposition. (She's seen me with one of the teachers after school 15 minutes before that, which gave rise to my fear, but really, only the teachers get in trouble—not the students.)

Anyway, she came to tell me that I needed to change houses today (Friday), because some girl from Denmark was arriving and she'd already been promised my room. I didn't really catch the details of why she'd been promised my room – I was paying more attention to the part where I had to leave.

Then, to make my day even weirder, my teacher sent me a text message at about 5:30 to tell me he was in a motorcycle accident and wouldn't be at school today. So I called him and found out that he was in the hospital and he broke his arm, but was otherwise okay. This is the second time he's broken the same arm in 6 months. (Although I guess last time it was a wrist and he didn't break it on his motorcycle). I asked if he was okay, and said, 'no! I broke my arm!' Poor kid. He's had a year with a lot of problems. Hopefully he'll be okay. Actually, rumor has it that the bigger problem is that he hit a girl in the street, who is in much worse shape than he is, which is realy what he needed to deal with today. I just hope everything works out okay.

But yeah, so today I had another teacher (one I know, but not very well), and then after school I immediately moved houses. Now I'm in a house with another student I know (who has been in the school a few weeks longer than me, actually). It's a bit weird, because he's pretty tight with his family. One of my other friends lived in this room I'm now living in, but she left last week.

Anyway, it'll be okay. It's just for a week, and this is a very, very pretty house. Even prettier than my last house, probably. And, I'm not going to be here this weekend.

This weekend I'm finally going to Lake Atitlan, which I am really excited about. It's supposed to be the most beautiful lake in the world, and not just according to Guatemaltecos! I leave in the morning, and I have a reservation at a hotel that's supposed to be incredibly nice with amazing views. It's in a sort of secluded town that can only be reached by boat.

Now the only question is what I want to spend my last Friday night in Xela. (I figured out that my flight is at 10 am Saturday, so I'll have to head to Guate Friday night to make my flight – ugh.)