Hello Hello! So I was going to post this on the blog, but i have forgotten how to get there agian! Sorry! Anyway, I hope this finds you all well! Please feel free to email me your adventures! I love to hear from you guys!
So I am now officially in my own house! WOOHOO! I moved in yesterday and have it pretty much set up! Its really bare, but I am just so excited to cook for myself (tonight is burger night!) and not wake up to really loud music at 6 am! So basically it is bliss! My neighbors have been really helpful as well as my host family! Between the two families, anything that was broken on my house is now fixed, my stuff is in the house, my hammock is hung up! My favorite ¨´lets help out the crazy gringa moment¨´ was when i walked into my house to discover that ants had taken over EVERYTHING! I was so disgusted and was being bitten by them, so I ran out of the house screaming ANTS ANTS! My neighbors, a little concerned by the noise, came to check on me to find me flailing about trying to get rid of the ants. So i asked, half panicked, what can i do to get rid of them! I need to kill them! And my little gaurdian angels came over with some VERY powerful pesticide (i might die soon) and killed them all within 10 minutes! The day was saved and I am now living in an ant free environment! So basically I am doing well and being taken care of! The only problem i forsee is boredom, but i can always go visit people! This is my first experience of living alone so we will see how it goes! Where better than Nicaragua?! haha
Christmas here was a little bit of a downer. They dont really celebrate it! They all claimed to have big dinner plans, but i never saw that happen! Basically they got up as usual, cleaned the house, made tortillas, cooked beans, same old same old. And at first I was really upset and a bit angry that they had told me of all these exciting plans and non of them were happening, but i figured, Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I wont let this get me down. So, i took out my holiday shirt that I made last year (if you were there you remember how beautiful it was, if not it was a painted snowman with a sparkly vest and googly eyes- the kind that move when the shirt is moved) Its really ugly, but it made me happy! It was soooo hot in the long sleeve shirt, but I stood strong and refused to take it of! I actually got a lot of compliments on it to! I may have a business in tacky christmas wear here in Nicaragua! And after my shirt, i caught up with the other volunteer (who is now sadly gone) and we made christmas cookies, I bought some spanish dubbed christmas movies and we listened to music, watched movies, and make cookies with one of our favorite families. The family htought it was all very silly, but we were happy and thats all that matters! Overall, not too bad of a christmas! For New Years I headed for Leon with some other people from my group to have a beach day and a night of dancing! It was such a nice relazing couple of days! The beach is great, the food was great (they have some really great restaurants in Leon, sadly the same cant be said about Chontales), and I only spoke english! Lots of fun! However, the best ´Carolyn moment` was when my friend and I met up in the capital of Chontales to travel together to Leon. We were chatting along, happy to see each other and be talking in our native tongue when we saw what we believed to be the express bus heading out towards Managua. The man working on the bus called out the destination, which sounded like Managua, so we hopped on. We found a seat and were chatting it up for 15 minutes when my friend eralized we were heading towards his site, the exact OPPOSITE way of managua and Leon. EEK! So we were a little annoyed and were trying to figure out how long this little mistake would take to correct, when the man coming to collect our money for tickets came by. We were kind of embarrassed, but i decided to ask him how we could remedy the situation. I explained that when he had screamed apparently La Rama, it sounded a lot like Managua and we had boarded the wrong bus, when is the next bus headed to Managua. He told us he wasnt sure but he would help us out if he could. So my friend and I sat there giggling at our stupidity when all of the sudden the bus comes to a stop in the middle of the road. Apparently a bus going to Managua was passing and the bus worker had waved down the passing bus and told them he had some people wanting to go to Managua. So both buses are stopped in the middle of the road, and the bus worker comes down the aisle screaming, ´¨Donde estan los cheletes¨ (Translation: Where are the white people) of course the whole bus points at us and we are then escorted off the bus onto the correct bus with 10000 eyes on us. Dont worry, it wasnt at all awkward! We thought it was funny!
In other news, it appears that i get a small bit of signal in my house, so if you feel the need to buy a calling card and give me a ring, I would be HAPPY to chat it up! I dont know the country code for Nicaragua, but my cell phone number is 493-6478! I love you all and hope you had a great holiday season!!!
***Post-note from Cathy*** If you would like to call Carolyn, you must dial 011-505 and then her number.
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