Yo MTV raps from Matagalpa WORD It is about to rain so we thought we would enter a little info, enjoy. Matagalpa is a nice city, finally. We have enjoyed other places but this feels like it is really someones home. People are helpful and friendly but not overbearing and there is even a real super market with organized shelves with the meat in a cooler. Wild. The city sits in a valley surrounded by hills that remind me of LaCrescent, Minnesota. This is coffee growing country. When we arrived in Nicaragua we expected to drink great coffee, but found that [View Full Entry]

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On one of the ‘chicken buses’ headed from Matagalpa, I awoke to see several men outside of the bus leaning into our windows yelling in Spanish. At first I was very startled thinking the bus was under attack by people climbing in through windows and doors, but then looking around I saw we were stopped in a market area and the men were hanging in the window with bags of vegetables to sell. Some quickly got on the bus by the doors and others clung on to the windows from the outside, shoving their products inside the bus to sell. After [View Full Entry]

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Aside from the intensely painful sunburn covering large portions of my body, the heat rash taking over both my legs and bum, the itchy bug bites occupying my legs and feet, and the diarrhea i’ve picked up along the way, i am really liking Central America. Currently we are in Matagalpa, Nicaragua for the next few days before heading to El Salvador via Honduras. We are planning to bypass Honduras due to the whole military over throw and all. Hopefully without incident... The landscape here is utterly amazing, forested hillsides, winding roads among small valleys and large patches o [View Full Entry]

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Well, the 4th of July has been here and gone. I am in the city of Matagalpa to celebrate with volunteers from my group. We had excellent Italian food for dinner... and then I was exhausted and went back to read as opposed to out to dance. Which was fine with me. And now my stomach has turned all of that rich food and cold coffee drinks into liquid. There are more colorful ways to describe this, but I´ll spare you. However, I do not regret the food choices that I have made. Mexican food for lunch. A mint mocha frappe [View Full Entry]

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