Guatemala Plans in Motion

My flight is booked, and I am registered with Celas Maya School in Quetzaltenango. I will be gone all of April and May, which is only about half the amount of time I had wanted to spend studying. As usual I feel as if things have unfolded as a higher force intended. Celas Maya offers on-line study, so I will be able to continue my studies even after I return to the USA. Their classes are taught in a garden courtyard, which I thought was a much better approach to learning than being stuck inside a classroom. Plus, they have FREE ping-pong! I'm certainly not going to win any ping-pong championships, but it is a good way to make friends and have some fun. We all need helpful props in building connections with each other. Being that our Spanish lessons are all one-on-one, it is important for the school to provide other means of connecting with each other. I still have about six weeks in Madison before I depart. It's not much time, especially knowing many of the people I value most here will be leaving before or shortly after I return. I'm hoping to spend as much time with each of them as possible before we live with distance between us. More distance in my life. An ever present hurdle to great happiness.