LEON!

sooo, sorry for the long delay in writing something on this blog. The weeks have been flying by! I just have a few more weeks of training and then I am off to my new site! I found out yesterday! It is a medium size town in the department of Leon. Its "far" in Nica standards, but in my opinion, nothing is THAT far. Basically, to get from my site to Managua is like going to San Diego from home, and there is the departmental city of Leon even closer. And, I will hardly be going to Managua anyways.

anyways, its seems like a cool site, and I am really happy with it. The Nicas do not have the most positive reaction to it, they say things like "ehhhh" or "oh no, hace calor! (its hot!) " or "uuummm, ok". I take their reaction lightly because honestly, if its not my training town, it will never be up to par, and thats ok, because my training town really is pretty great. It will be sad to go. Anyways, back to my site. Its the first time a business volunteer will go there, so that is exciting to start somewhere new, however, there have been lots of volunteers from another sector (environmental education) so PC isnt a foreign concept. I will be teaching in 3 schools on the business course, teaching english, work with various microfinance groups, and maybe working with a honey coopertive. I am excited. Sounds like alot, but I am sure it will all fall into place.

Today I am meeting my counterparts, the teachers and school directors I will be working with, and getting to know more about my site! I am a little nervous, but ready to start working at my site. Next week I will go to my site for a few days before I offically move there at the end of July.


Hmmm what else?? Well, everything is great... just used to my regular training lifestyle here. I went to Chontales this past weekend and it was really beautiful. Its cowboy country here in Nicaragua. It reminded me a little of where my mom is in Spain, it was green and mountainous, and there was lots of cows and cow excrement. haha. hey, its true! anyways, It was a nice little weekend trip.