Quick update. More seeds! Mail shoutout to Joy! Thank you! This Friday, Sept 4, marks my 1 YEAR MARK IN NICARAGUA! Yup, got here a year ago. Friday is also afrosh´s birthday :) Monday 5th my boss comes to visit me in my community. Tuesday, at like 3am, Lenin and I are heading to Wiwili, Jinotega, to visit his family. Which means I will have neither cell phone nor internet connection for over a week. I will be milking cows and making cheese and sitting next to Lenin as he tells his parents, face to face, that we actually are going [View Full Entry]

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8 August 2009 Saturday night 6:15 pm A lot has been happening. Like, lots. In no particular order... My camera was stolen; everyone here was convinced I was pregnant but I definitely am not; I was tested for Chagas Disease and, thank god, don’t appear to have it; I dropped below 150; and Lenin asked for my hand in marriage… and I said yes! We are headed up to Wiwili to visit his family in a few weeks. The next goal then is to get him a tourist visa and us tickets and head home for the holidays. Then I will [View Full Entry]

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Well, decided to come on down to San Lucas to use the internet. Glad there´s a cyber here, though usually I just go onto Somoto, today no me pide. I need to take more photos of the garden. The green beans are about 3 inches tall, the radishes are a couple of inches tall, the onions from the bulbs from the Cahails are also about 3 inches tall, and the carrots and beets have sprouted, as has the dill. So we´re doing good! Also, the squashes and cucumber and zucchini have all sprouted, too! I´ve been visiting the women of the [View Full Entry]

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Sometimes, Lenin asks me to come up and spend the night with him at his work in the border town of El Espino where he works for customs. He has to work a 24 hour shift, so he leaves on the first bus out of Moropoto at 6.30 am and leaves El Espino at 7.30 am the next morning. Sometimes, he asks me to come visit. I´m going again tonight... it will be my 3rd time in about a month and a half. I don´t mind accompanying him at all... breaks up the week. Tomorrow is our 6 month anniversary. Which [View Full Entry]

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okay, i have no real energy to write today. i´ve just been answering emails... and i´m going to copy and paste parts of a few of those here... .......................... to my boss: Thank you for P´s mini Spa and the positive reinforcement. It feels like I have to keep reminding everyone in my community that I´ve only been here for 2 months. I mean, I´m still working on the español and getting people´s names straight but they´re ready for me to get up and GO and I´´m like, whoa, chill out. I started English classes like 3 weeks after arriving and [View Full Entry]

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Yeah, in a pissy mood. Not sure why. Something to do with S leaving back for her site, not getting breakfast, being the only one hauling water for the first 5 trips, not being proficient at washing pants on a 1.5x2 foot concrete slab, having Eyebrows be in such a good mood, Heartbreaker´s silence, and the fact that the aforementioned took my camo hat with him today and I am wearing my comfort BMC 1999 Hell Week shirt from Mel and wanted my goddamn camo Phillies cap to go with it but had to settle for stealing his Che hat. Also, [View Full Entry]

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¡¡¡¡WOOHOO!!!! God watching freaking Nica television Canal 2 last night during the noticias at 6pm was kiiiiillling me! They showed a brief picture of Obama and McCain and then went to their reporter in Miami who was just going on and on and on about blah blah blah and then they went to a LIVE broadcast of the American ambassador to Nicaragua, Robert Callahan, who was also blah blah blahing and I just kept yelling, to the amusement of the Nicans watching the TV with me in Nita´s house - the abuela´s - QUIERO NUMEROS! NUUUUMMMMMEROS!¨ Or, for the español-challenged, I [View Full Entry]

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Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama-as prepared for delivery Election Night Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Chicago, Illinois If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they [View Full Entry]

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