Graduation Day

Wednesday, June 5th 2019

The group with our Spanish teachers.

Today was graduation day! We met at the school and then chose how to get to the restaurant. Two teachers took their students on their mopeds, most people took a chicken bus, and Frances and I walked with our teachers. We actually got there faster walking than the chicken bus people! We were all called up individually by our teacher and we all gave a short thank you, in Spanish of course. Afterwards we had a nice meal and got to showcase our non-verbal skills that we had picked up in Guatemala. Frances, Nate, and I had been practicing for about four or five days on two songs. We played Sunday Morning by Maroon 5 (although a much faster rendition) and Soledad y el Mar by Natalia Lafourcade. Afterwards, DQ (Dr. Quinn) asked the four best dancers to show off some moves. After all, our Salsa teach was also one of the Spanish teachers in attendance. We went outside for 5 minutes and threw something together quickly. I added all the videos to the bottom!

As it was our last night in Xela, we got everyone to go out together as a group. We started out at Kasa Kiwi, the local hostel rooftop bar. Sergio, the bartended, helped us celebrate our last night! Afterwards, we all went to Pool & Beer for our last salsa night in Xela.

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