Here!

So... one day down, 29 more to go! We got into Antigua yesterday almost without a hitch, except that we hadn't seen that the email confirmation the school sent us had the wrong day on it - it had Saturday instead of Sunday. So we called the school where we're studying, and they arranged the pickup with the same guy. But he had already driven out to get us the previous day, and it took him a long time to get there because of traffic. So, we ended up paying him for BOTH days (we felt bad he came out, and while putting the wrong day was the school's mistake, we didn't catch it), but that ended up being $80.

Then today we found out today that even though Terry signed up for a half day of classes, you're not allowed to do that during the busy season, and so he has to pay for a full day. He would do classes in the afternoon too, but I'm only scheduled for the mornings (and my instructor teaches elsewhere in the afternoon), and he doesn't think his brain can handle it. But we're going to see how he feels next week, and then maybe the third week we'll do full days. But he thinks he's just going to do 3 weeks now instead of 4 as a result. There's also a grad student working at the school here who studies Kaqchikel linguistics! So I talked to him for awhile about my possible doctoral project, and he had some good advice. The bottom line is that I can probably make some good contacts to further my research if not this summer, then the next.