Temblor?

I awoke early this morning to rattling windows and a gently shaking bed. After deducing this disruption wasn't from late night fiestas, I started to think I was feeling my first earthquake. As my little heart started beating faster, the shaking stopped, only to resume a few minutes later. It was not very dramatic, just gentle shaking. When I asked my spanish teacher about it later, she said that it probably wasn't an earthquake and explained that many of the buildings in Antigua shake when large buses or trucks drive by. This was not reassuring to me. I then started to wonder "if that type of disruption is occurring merely as a result of a truck driving by, what's going to happen if there really is an earthquake?"

We're in our third day of spanish classes at the Christian Spanish Academy.  The school is just a few blocks from our apartment and so far I'm very impressed. We each took an assessment test and were placed with our own private instructor. We spend 4 hours a day with at our table under the umbrella with one on one instruction and conversation. The girls both enjoy their teachers - they are really animated young women who like to take Kelsey & Larissa out to buy bread or ice cream and have plans to play basketball tomorrow! My teacher is also a great match for me - we have a very good time chatting about all kinds of things. And this is the first situation in which I'm not getting in trouble for talking in class because it's part of the learning process! Larissa is in level A, Kelsey in B, and I'm in C. We're all doing some amount of review of material that we've learned already. In my case, since my last Spanish classes were more than 25 years ago, the review is just fine!!!!

Ben went back to Driggs this morning for some business and we sent with him our wishlist:
1. washcloths(they don't provide them and the one I brought never dries so gets disgusting pretty quickly)
2. Extension cords and a wireless router. There's only one internet connection and of course we each have a laptop we want to plug in!
3. Lamps or stronger light bulbs. The apartment is a very quaint renovated hacienda...but it's a little dark and gloomy at night.
4. A toaster oven. There's no oven here and I'm running out of things to cook on the stovetop.

(I probably won't actually get that last one but can certainly learn how to be more creative!) Other than that, we're really not craving anything that we're not able to get here. There's even a Subway, a Burger King, and a Domino's Pizza if we should feel the urge for fastfood!