San Pedro is a little town builded on a mountain and direct at the Lago atitlan. the big lake is surounded by three vulcanos and a lot of small villages between the Mountains. the raining season was starting and it begans to rain almost every evening, but over the day we had sun.
in the first days we chilled in Mr. mullets. my favourit travel group was getting more and more boring, because Sarah and kacy were i touch like a couple and they did a lot of coke... after two days in San Pedro we moved from Mr. mullets to hostel fe, because there was more action. Daniel was coming back from el Salvador and hoped to get in touch with choley again, but she met her ex boyfriend like in every place we have been and they became a couple again. poor dan. i started my language course on friday and moved from fe to my homestaying familiy. we had a great evening beginning with a quiz in hostel fe. we went together to the sublime bar with electronic music and met our girls there. that was the last evening with the complete travel group and we danced like crazy! the next day Sarah left and i stayed at home because i was sick with my cold. it's a shame for me because it was the last day of dan and i really wanted to say good bye, but i just felt into Sleep. sorry dan!
on monday the girls from Danmark, Luis and Tina and i did a Kajak Tour around san Pedro. it was very interesting because the water level of the lake raised over the years. it was possible to go by Kajak into the houses in the water, very funny.
the next day i went to panajachel for paragliding. we tried to do it three times before, but the weather was always too bad. i called Stefanie in the break and she said come as soon as possible. i finished my course a little bit earlier and went directly to the company. they were already waiting for me and we went up the mountain with a pick up. my Pilot was Leo , a bad english speaking guy from argentina. he prepared everything and tied me in Front of him. the Start was crazy because we stood only 3 meters away from the border of the straight down going cliff. Leo introduced me and we started. the glide pulled us back 2m and we just got up. it was a amazing feeling to fly over the small towns and big mountains. we did some acrobatics in air like turning very fast and i got dizzy, but it was pure fun. we flew 45 min, compared to some experience i heard from before, that was a really long flight!
we, the danish girls and i, stayed one week with private families for home staying. the familiy of the girls was nice, they told me. they ate together and played games after that. my experience was a little bit different... i lived in the backside of the town, more or less high in the mountain. the friendly familiy consits of grandparents, parents and a cute little daughter. they have a small farm in the town, where some other guys are living aswell. the area was very local and Mike and me seamed to be the only tourist there. Mike was a stupid and boring english guy. we weren't really in contact with the familiy, only with the granny rosa. it was her job to entertain us and Cook and clean for us. we ate three times a day only together with her, because the kitchen wasn't huge enough for all of us, that was a little bit boring.... it was probably not the best familiy to stay at, but my teacher Ruben was pretty shure the best. we laughed a lot, he told me a lot of stories about the weekends in San Pedro! but we had serious topics aswell and Ruben was a very sympatic guy in my age. the improvement of my spanish is amazing, i love this language!
