first few days - time - meeting people - Spanish class

My old job seems like it was a lifetime ago considering it was just last week I was sitting at my desk. When travelling you meet all sorts of people from all over the world. I think the people you meet are based on yourself and what you are searching for. Meeting people is so much easier to do when you are travelling as your biggest agenda is to experience things and it can be hard to explain travellers are a very different kind of people. I enjoyed travelling when I was working but now it is different as time has almost no meaning. Most of the people I have met so far are younger in their teens or early 20s but we all seem to have the same goal to travel for longer. Some of the people I meet are like me they were working for a career and decided they needed a change. It is funny when you meet people and you tell them you are in accounting, marketing or whatever and they tell you "oh that's cool" but then when I tell them now I quit my job and want to travel they have a very different tone when they talk to you and will instead say "that is awesome" and they mean it! When you are travelling you let down a lot of your guards and that makes it easier to meet people but it is your choice you could choose not to talk to people at all. The easiest way to meet someone is smile and say hello (well say anything really!). When I travel I have a very different smile.

Yesterday I was sitting on a terrace (patio) and having lunch I saw another none Guatemalan and said hello before long I made a new friend from Italy. We talked about all kinds of aspects of life. In my past life I wouldn't talk to a random person in a bar well not normally. A lot of travellers are by themselves and just looking for someone to talk to. As I was sitting there I realized I had no idea what time it was. It is a nice feeling when you don't know or don't care what time it is. I do however keep trying to look at my watch and see what time it is but my watch isn't there. Now I can eat when I am hungry sleep when I am tired not just because it is "the right time". 

I have been taking Spanish classes this week and I am getting my butt kicked in them. You have loads of information thrown at you so quickly I would say too much......part of the problem could be mucho cerveza. I took a Spanish class so I could try to learn a little bit and so I would know what my students would be facing. 

One last thing everyone I meet now wants to go to Calgary for the Stampede.

Tuna Tom