Well here is my first post since I brought a computer back to Nicaragua with me.I went back home a couple weeks ago for my cousin’s wedding and life has definitely been improved since. I can pre-type blogs (like this one), organize charla data, listen to music without my ipod, sync my ipod, buy new music, store photos, look at photos, drink more types of tea and hot chocolate, eat more peanut butter and other snack foods, be stocked up on toiletries, choose from a larger wardrobe, study for the gre with my new books, crotchet lots more with many types of yarn and needles, drink out of a starbucks travel mug, look at a map of central America, and read “Buenas Noches Luna.” AND Nata has a successful business. We’re getting an internet modem this week which will exponentially improve life again. It’s not that things were really hard or terrible before, but they were much more complicated and time/money consuming. Now things will be streamlined.
Now, I’m just still trying to get back into the Sabalos routine. I’m planning the rest of my casa materna charlas for the month (after “aprovechar”ing Excel to make a spreadsheet of how many times I’ve given each charla). I’m also planning charlas to give in the schools in November and planning to start English classes in the next couple of weeks. On top of all that I’m still working on my Community Health Survey.
Hopefully I’ll be moving the middle of November, but It depends on house approval when Ximena comes for my site visit (proposed for the 15th). That will change a lot of things, but the change should ultimately be great. I’ll sometimes get lonely and perhaps scared on occasion, but I’ll have my gatitos, be able to cook whatever and whenever I want, have my own toilet and shower, control the cleanliness and sanitation, be able to put up my hammock without random people sleeping in it, have lots more space, and enjoy a gorgeous view.
Things are definitely gear up as we anticipate the elections in 3 weeks. Both parties have colored
the streets. Lettering, t-shirts, posters, and banners in pink for FSLN and all the same in red for PLC. The hospedaje has been packed with politicians, party members, military (because of weekends free), and a smattering of other types.
Hopefully I’ll be moving the middle of November, but It depends on house approval when Ximena comes for my site visit (proposed for the 15th). That will change a lot of things, but the change should ultimately be great. I’ll sometimes get lonely and perhaps scared on occasion, but I’ll have my gatitos, be able to cook whatever and whenever I want, have my own toilet and shower, control the cleanliness and sanitation, be able to put up my hammock without random people sleeping in it, have lots more space, and enjoy a gorgeous view.
Things are definitely gear up as we anticipate the elections in 3 weeks. Both parties have colored
the streets. Lettering, t-shirts, posters, and banners in pink for FSLN and all the same in red for PLC. The hospedaje has been packed with politicians, party members, military (because of weekends free), and a smattering of other types.Speaking of guests, that’s one thing that both entertains and annoys me. I love seeing all the people who come and go from here, but I really don’t like when they assume I work here and ask me every little thing. Just because I occasionally serve you food and hang out with what you assume is my “marido” (Nata) doesn’t mean that I welcome you to keep interrupting my tv viewing (happened to be the Tigers on Sun) and ask me where so and so is, where you can pay, where you can shower, where you can sign the book, where you can eat, where the showers are, and anything else under the sun that you can think of.
Well that’s about it for now. I’m sure I’ll be writing again very soon.
Paz and Cheers
