{"id":794,"date":"2005-12-19T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travellingtruths.wordpress.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2018-04-19T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:40:06","slug":"san-pedro-spanish-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slingadventures.com\/destinations\/guatemala\/san-pedro-spanish-school","title":{"rendered":"San Pedro Spanish School"},"content":{"rendered":"First day of Spanish School in San Pedro. Martina got us each a traditional German 1st day of school gift. A brown paper bag of sweets. Sweet!\r\n\r\nUpon arrival to school (which was literally next door to our accommodation) we are introduced to our teachers (maestros) who seem set on only conversing with us in Spanish, and fair enough I suppose! Our 1:1 Spanish training begins with us each being taken aside to individual shady spots on the bank of Lake 'Lago' Atitlan.\r\n\r\nWe regroup for morning tea\u00a0and Allison and I soon realise it will take a bit more than 5 days to get fluent in Spanish. We have barely covered the whole masculine\/feminine concept and basic verbs. Many students go fully immersive and get buddied up with a family for 4 weeks. Us on the other hand are taking a more balanced approach and go for lunch when classes end at 1pm. Then go for a movie later on, tonights screening is Oceans 12.\r\n\r\nThen we get some shut eye, it is a school night after all!\r\n