Total Devotion to Learning Spanish

Tomorrow I start Spanish classes! I have been wanting to do this for the past 4 years and it's happening!! I'm a little stressed but so willing to just learn as much as i can in the time i am here. Spanish is hard but my ear has been tuned to it now for a week in being with the family that i'm catching on. I know so many words and can recognize easily what people are taking about but it's the conversation itself that's tough. I'll keep you posted on how the one on one instruction goes. I'll be at it from 8 am till 1 pm.
Rinna and Ivan drove me here to Antigua today, we toured around some of the ruins from the many earthquakes that have happened here, saw some of the Churches and had lunch at an amazing typical Guatemalan Restaurant, food so so so good. I showed them my hotel, it's the San Vincente where we always stay with the groups and Carmen the owner remembered me well which was nice. We also went to the school to check it out and met the principal who refused to speak English to me. Yikes.
It was really sad to have them leave me. After being with them for the past week in close quarters, i've come to really admire and feel connected to them, it's amazing how that can happen with strangers isn't it....they are truly fine people, warm, caring, open hearted, full of life. I am blessed to know them.
So i'm alone tonight in Antigua, it's good but there's also a little empty part in this, wish some of you were here experiencing this with me.
I'll keep you posted on how it goes with the classes...hope you are all well.