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Published: April 26th 2010
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25 April 2010
Sunday 6:40 PM
Been a while since I wrote on my computer. Last night Lenin and I were looking through all the photos from March and April of this year. A lot of stuff has happened in these two months!
March was dominated by our trip to Wiwili to visit with my in laws. I did both my own and Lenin’s laundry while we were out there, and I have continued to wash both since we’ve returned. March also brought Semana Santa, in which Lenin worked days and nights on end and Kristy and Jader visited Moropoto. The boys of Moropoto organized the soccer games on Wednesdays, too.
But this month has truly been the full month, and we still have a week left!
April began with Lenin and me excavating Mamita’s kitchen and subsequently making the kitchen floor cement. We bought the sand and cement and paid to have it delivered and paid for Tono’s expertise in laying cement flooring and a neighbor’s help to mix and haul cement with Lenin. The kitchen looks soooo much better! It’s better organized and, due to some rearranging made possible by the new floor, the space
is much better used. A success!
Then I went to Esteli to order my custom made wedding dress, and on to Managua for the Editor Staff meeting of the revamped, online Va Pue magazine. I returned to Moropoto the day of the Soccer Tournament Finals. Lenin went to take pictures and I cleaned my room.
Meanwhile, of course, I am giving English classes at the school four days a week.
Also this month Moropoto’s big huge awesome water project is getting underway and every able man from every household…or if there are no men, the women work, at digging kilometer’s worth of ditches to lay the pipe for the new electric well. I have been taking pictures of the workers for weeks, as this is a project that needs to be documented… and the families will love to have a photo memory.
Lenin and I also ordered our wedding rings last Monday and they should be in our possession by the time this is published as we are going to pick them up first thing tomorrow, and then I will put this on my blog.
(We picked them up! And are actually wearing them today
because, although I have had nothing stolen on the bus in a year and half, I would DIE if the box with our wedding bands was stolen. So we are wearing them today until we get back!)
More additions have been made to Mamita’s, as the guys changed half the tin on the roof as it had been leaking badly, and with the rain coming, it was a good time to get it changed. Half a new roof, new kitchen floor, and a lot of new things to be passed on after the wedding!
Meanwhile classes, the head INTA jefa’s visit, and more digging of ditches.
And then, the not awesome part of these last four weeks of April. Yes, I am clearly referring to the larvae in my leg, or torsalo in Spanish. As I said in my last freaked out post, went to the health center of hell on Thursday. Since then, I have been taking doxicycline as an antibiotic and the thing is still in there. It’s dead, to be sure, but it’s not coming out. All members have been pushing and looking and watching and keeping track. There’s a rumor that a morcielago,
or a bat, bit me. Don’t know where that started, but torsalo and morcielago kind of sound the same? So now it’s Sunday night and there is still a little puss…. and a dead worm in my leg! I am going to call my lovely Peace Corps Med Office tomorrow and have them advise. I think someone needs to do some minor surgery and get the damn thing out of my leg, dead or alive, and I have no faith in the free health center. I’ll take my expensive Managua hospital at the taxpayers expense, thank you very much.
I’m going to have a nice sized scar after this, which I don’t mind. Scars, like tattoos, tell stories about what adventures one has had in life. This scar will make a good story.
A loooong time ago Grammie Molly and Granddad Lenin were in Nicaragua and guess what? Grammie had a baby fly larvae living in her leg!
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Heather
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I loved reading your Nicaragua post, but I'm sorry to hear about the larvae in your leg! I really admire your attitude towards it though! My blog is looking for travel photos, stories (like getting larvae in your leg!), etc, to share. If you have the time, check it out at dirty-hippies.blogspot.com, or email me at dirtyhippiesblog@gmail.com. Continued fun with your experience there, and good luck with your leg! Heather :)