My goodbye party at Chacocente was yesterday. It was amazing...and sad. Way too sad. At this point I pretty much feel like my heart has been ripped out and thrown on the floor. Extreme, I know, but thats how I am. The school gave me a diploma! haha And then Manuela and Karen cooked food and made punch. We all met under the one big tree and had a small culto and the kids sang to me and then every family got up and said some words. Thanking me and things like that. I was doing well, not crying, even when [View Full Entry]

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Bus strikes suck. They really do. Last Monday a bunch of the taxi and bus drivers went on strike protesting the price of gas. I can get anywhere within Managua without problem but to try to get to Chacocente. hah. Won't work. I can get the bus as far as Tipitapa where I would then normally pick up a bus to Masaya but they aren't running. The other teachers have been going in trucks that are running from Tipitapa to Masaya every day. They're like..pirated trucks haha. But theyre more dangerous, especially for me, a little white girl, so I havent [View Full Entry]

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Tomorrow is only 3 weeks until I come home, and no offense to anyone but I have no desire to leave. This country and it's people have officially stolen my heart. I think the animals here need to be fed better. Also the churches need to open up a bit more. A lot are still very strict and critical. Chacocente is wonderful no matter how many problems it has. Although I am relieved to not have to teach classes after the end of this week, I don't want to leave the kids. I need to learn to cook more Nicaraguan food. [View Full Entry]

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So after getting an e-mail just now from my father telling me very bluntly that I need to update, and since I'm finallyyyyy in a cyber and have time, here goes a hopefully nice, long entry for you all. I apologize for the delay but I rarely have time to go to a cyber anymore and when I am on the computer in the house I don't like to be on for very long because the whole family uses it! Where did I leave off on the last one? Hmmm...Ah! The arrival of Ted Anderson and Bille and MOPers! So that [View Full Entry]

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Whoops. Still doing horribly at updating this thing. Sorry! I've actually barely been home the last two weeks so I never really had the chance to keep you all updated on my oh-so-exciting life. hah. It'll be a very random entry. Some of it will be things actually going on in my life, whereas others will most likely just be random thoughts about the culture or things here. You are all probably used to my randomness by now. I know I wrote a very long time ago about a friend of mine that was saying he is depressed and wants to [View Full Entry]

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I just held a chicken in a plastic bag for a while. It is now tied by its leg to the pole on our patio. I love this country. And I promise sometime soon I will try to make a real entry. I don't have much time lately at all. [View Full Entry]

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This is going to be a short one. I'll get the long one up on Sunday most likely. But I just feel the need to put this up to give you a very simple, but very helpful view of life in Nicaragua. I have been up since 630 am. I have already run around playing with my 2 year old cousin. Taken him to a pulperia (small store) to get a snack. Gone to the store twice for my "mom." Eaten breakfast. Washed all my clothes, and not in the washing machine. In the washing thing where there are ridges and [View Full Entry]

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So it is now summer here and the weather is...interesting. It is hotter during the day than it was before, because it isnt raining at all. But there is this gorgeoussss breeze that is almost always there, so if you're outside, you don't feel the heat quite so badly. Buttttt, because its not raining there is more dust than I think I have ever seen in my life, and those nice cooling breezes love throwing all that dust into your eyes, hair, and well, everywhere. I thought the mud was bad during the rainy season, but the dust is most definitely [View Full Entry]

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I am back in Nicaragua and loving it!!! :-) When I got to the airport I practically ran once I got through customs and got my luggage. And a bunch of people were there waiting for me :-) Pablo, Janeth, Isaac and Belen. (My family) And then Hermana Cony. And Joel, Norvin, Guillen, Sharon and karla. Ah I was so excited!!! haha. We went right from the airport to a persons house because we were having dinner there so I got to start catching up with everyone and it really felt like I had barely been gone the way we all [View Full Entry]

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So I am very sorry that I haven't updated this in forever. The last few weeks that I was in Nicaragua, nothing exciting was really happening so I didn't really know what to write about. Mostly I was just going back and forth between spending two or three days at Chacocente and hanging around Sabana Grande with all my friends. School ended on the 22 or so of November so I wasn't obligated to go to Chacocente. But, since I love it there, I still went anyway. I have now slept in every house in Chacocente and have generally really enjoyed [View Full Entry]

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