fotos! fotos!

This is the river that formed on my street when it rained... I refer to it as the rio de chocolate.

me and my training group

Me and my host sister. This is my host brother and hos mom from training. This was the day of my swearing in ceremony when i offically became a volunteer. They were a great family!

Thisis 32 lbs of frijoles (beans) that my host family cooked and sold every day in my training town! YUMM! haha

This is the Volcano Masaya and the MAsaya lake... very beautiful, but you cant swim there because is contaminated.

This is my entire business group on our first day on Nicaragua.. I cant believe 3 months have passed!

I'm a volunteer!!

My Site Visit

Hello everyone!!

So I am in my final week of training, only a few more days with my host family, then a few in Managua, then I am off to my site for a two year adventure! I can´t believe training is almost over! Don´t get me wrong, it was LONG and very exhausting and a ton of information, but I also got used to my training site, my family, and new friends, so its hard to leave. But I am excited to actually start my service and I can always come and visit.

So, I spent three days at my site this week to check things out, see the schools I will be working at, and get a feel of the place. First off, my site seems close, but no, oh no, the road there is underconstruction and its takes a while to get there. Lets just say that on my way, there was only one lane, and both sides of traffic tried to go on it. When the traffic met head to head, my bus driver gets out and has a juice. ha. meanwhile, all the ladies on my bus start freaking out, and one decides she is going to start walking to the capital city (we picked her up a little later). Anyways, I got a feeling how travelling to my site may or may not turn out to be.

anyways, my site is really nice. Its a smaller town, everyone knows everyone, and you can walk everywhere. Only the center of town is paved, and the electricity and water go out for alot of the day. Ya that is no fun, but you deal, and it really isnt that bad if you plan in advance. The town has alot going on, with different organizations, NGOs, sports leagues etc. I havent even looked at side projects yet because I am going to be teaching at 3 schools and that is already overwhelming by itself. Anyways, it seems like a great site and it definately has that element of small town Nicaragua that I havent really felt in the city during training. Oh, and since its small, its really safe (I know alot of you are worried about my safety, even though I say Nicaragua is a reletively safe country for the region, i know you worry..)

anyways, my time is almost up, so I have to wrap things up. Hope all is well and I would love to hear from everyone! Thanks for the personal emails, I dont get to use the internet that much so its hard to write everyone back, but I will soon. besos para todos!!

omg! I am posting some pictures!

Here i am in Chontales. Its cowboy country in Nicaragua. I went for a weekend, it was really beautiful! very green.









Here I am with some Nica friends on a weekend here in my training town. The weekends are pretty fun here, sometimes we go dancing, or we just hang out at a local bar











This is Contales again, as you can see, its really beautiful!













These are two of my PC friends, Kari and Georgina, they live in the same training town as me. I am gonna miss them once we seperate next week!









Here is my PC friend again, Georgina, she is from cali too! And that is my host brother Olinto, he is fun!