So i am glad that everyone is safe and sound! sorry to be sending emails, i promise i will try to use my blog as soon as cathy sends me the address so you guys wont be forced to read my long emails if you dont want to! So here it goes, the last week in a quick recap. Most excitingly, I found a scorpion on my skirt the other day. It tried to attack me and my host mom when we tried removing the little guy. And when i say little, he was big and according to my senora, 6 years old. so lots of experience at stinging. I might have had fleas in my bed the first week or so, so yay for the real PC expereince, but all is well now and i am bite free (apart from the mosquitos who cant seem to get enough of me!) Kinda gross, but you guys said you wanted all the dirty details! I miss cheese. I dream about it. The ambassador of Nica talked to my training group before we left DC and raved about their wonderful cheese and how it would really help the people of Nica if they started exporting it, needless to say i was stoked. WRONG! queso here is a hard white brick that tastes exactly like a salt lick. and they love to deep fry cheese, so sometimes i eat deep fried saltlicks. i feel like a deer, but i have slowly started sneaking it off my plate and back in the bag and my senora is starting to get the hint that i am not a fan of the queso. especially the deep fried queso. OH! my favorite! the other day, mid crave for cheese i walked into the kitchen for lunch to find a plate of what appeared to be beef covered in alfredo sauce. I practically did a happy dance right there in front of the entire fam. I sat down and took a huge bite only to discover....it was mayo. Thats right! in Nica, mayo is not just a condiment, alas it is also a maranaide! and i have had it on chicken, beef, and a questionable hot dog. (i couldnt tell what the hot dog was made of...but it was good!) Also, this is the same for ketchup. also a marinade. and it is used for pasta sauce, on beef, on chicke, and i am pretty sure if i were to cover myself in ketchup, i would be exeptable to eat. I am really looking foward to the day i can start cooking for myself! I miss vegetables! alhtough they make sure to give me veggies, its not enough! i want more green in my life!! hah!
in other news, we started a youth group in training and we are supposed to build a garden with them. We have had 3 classes over how to start, care, and protect your garden, and we began ours this weekend! Woohoo! It was hard, and unfortunately the first place we tried to plant used to be a makeshift landfill (there is no trash collecting in nica. they just burn it in the street, or even better throw it in the street or in the school and dont deal with it at all) needless to say it was lovely. We found tons of chip bags, candy, and my personal favorite a pair of old underwear! But luckily we had a good group and they stuck it out so we could start the garden in another location, free of wrappers and underwear!
spanish is coming along. i have noticed i can speak more, although grammatically incorrect! but slowly i am able to say sorta what i want and am able to make my family laugh a lot when i flail around trying to express some word that i cant say in spanish. its a never ending game of scerades. ( i cant spell that!) But my host dad said my spanish was improving and that made me really really happy! even if only by a little bit!
my group plans to start exploring more now that we are getting to know how the crazy buses work and can speak a little more spanish! so hopefully i will have pictures soon! Especially of the buses! you guys have to see them! they are great! And the music they play is fantastic! its 80s jams all the time!
I hope all is well with everyone!!! i love you all and miss you terribly!
Carolyn
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