$1 manicure. That’s all I have to say really to get my point across. That is seriously how much it cost me to get my nails painted. It costs like $3 to get the massage and paint, but we didn’t have enough time for that. Next time I will totally splurge to get that though! The girls and I went on Tuesday this week. Megan’s host sister, Sadie, had told her about this place where they did manicures/pedicures really well so one afternoon this past week she took us. It was a great girl talk time and so fun to get our nails painted too. I think we will definitely go there again now that we know where it is!
Well more about the food and drink here because we are constantly surrounded by it, having 3 meals a day. I also did my final Spanish presentation on “Comida y Bebida en los Estados Unidos” (Food and Drink in the United States). I showed the presentation to my family and we started talking about my favorite foods. I told them about avocados and a few days later they had avocados prepared for me for lunch. It was an interesting combination of chopped up eggs, onions, and avocados. It was pretty good actually and I was very excited to have one of my favorite foods in Nicaragua. Also, they sent along avocados and tortillas with Alejandra and I to the beach on Saturday, which was very delicious as well. Some of the foods they have here are such different combinations that I would never think of, but I always try them and have many times been really surprised because I have enjoyed it! ALSO, I introduced my host family to oreos with peanut butter and they loved it. It's a good thing I bought a family size jar! :)
This weekend was fantastic. On Friday we had our last Spanish class! It was such a chill day, we even acted out the Bible story of Jonah and the whale in Spanish! That was exciting and it was even more exciting that we were done with that class. Three weeks went by very slow, but we did learn a lot in those 3 weeks so it was a very accomplishing feeling. One more mistake I made in Spanish class this past week was saying that "When I have brown hair I want to have kids"...oops. We were practicing using the future tense, and I accidently used the word "castano" which means brown hair instead of "casada" which means married. What I MEANT to say was "When I am married I want to have kids". Our teacher laughed a lot at me and made sure I got the difference down for next time! haha. We also had our Cultural Exploration class on Friday where we learned a bit about Nicaraguan folkloric music. That night, my host family and I watched the movie, 17 Again, altogether, which was a lot of fun! Saturday was a good day because we spent it at the beach! It was Malorie, Megan, Curtis, Alejandra and I and we had beautiful weather until about 6 pm when we were leaving and it randomly decided to hardcore rain. Other than that it was a great day of playing soccer with some super talented Nicaraguan guys on the beach, burying Curtis in the sand, climbing the giant rocks in the water, and just hanging out playing card games and chillin’ by the water. We the bus brought us back into town around 7 we had to walk through a couple “water lakes” to get back to our homes. When it rains in Leon, the streets get filled with water because there are not many gutters in the streets. Thus, we have to wade through many deep puddles sometimes to get places. It’s an exciting adventure most times!
Well this week is a bit different in that we came to Managua to have class on Monday and Tuesday and now we are going on a community development field trip for our Worldview and Societal Transformation class. We will be heading out to Somotillo, Nicaragua this afternoon. It’s a city 4 hours north of Managua and 20 minutes from the Guatemalan border. We had our first 2 classes on Monday and Tuesday and we have 2 trips that we go on for this class; this week and next. We will learn a lot about theories of development in general and in Nicaragua specifically, and how it has worked, not worked, and what is needed to help a community improve in this way. It is a lot of heavy stuff, but I think the 2 trips we go on will be very good for us to see this development in real situations and learn about it through the people who are in these communities. Also, on Monday we had our history class which is also going to be a very interesting one as well. We had two 3-hour classes on Monday but they really didn’t seem that long because the stuff we are learning is so relevant to us, being here in Nicaragua. Our class is also only made up of us 6 students so the class would be terrible if we did not participate and engage in the topics discussed.
Its hard to believe I have been in Nicaragua for almost a month, I’ve learned so much already and I’m very excited to continue learning about this country. God is awesome, and He surely is keeping us safe here and we definitely thank Him for that often. Prayers are definitely still encouraged for us here in Nicaragua as we have a lot more to experience in our next leg of our journey here!
MY PHOTOGRAPHY...
This is one of the streets in Leon..it's very common to see lots of trash, horses pulling carts, and people riding bicycles (often times there are 2 people riding on a one person bike together!)...
this is mi mama and I after church on Sunday...
Cara.
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