Hello all! I hope this finds you all well and warm. I know a lot of you are freezing, but in those times, think of me. I am sweating like a champion down here!
So I have officially started my work in the schools. I will be observing for the next couple of weeks and then start teaching my classes. My thoughts after my first week....oh dear lord! The kids get really really excited when i come into their class! they cant concentrate and just spend the whole time staring at me and trying to talk to me. hopefully this energy will be translated to awesome participation when i actually start teaching and they will sit there perfectly still and quiet hanging on my every miss pronounced spanish word....a girl can dream, right?! I have 4 schools. One is in my town, one is a 30 minute walk away, and the other is either a 2 hour bike ride or 30 minute bus ride and 1 hour walk away. My school in the mountains requires me to take a bus and then a milk truck up the hill. Unfortunately i can only take it one way and have to walk down the mountain. Apparently it will take like 3 hours, but i hear in the rainy season the milk truck cant make it up the hill, so I will have to walk to 3 hours up and down. When I get back I better be able to crack a nut on my thighs.
So...i dont really want to write out long stories, so i figured i would update you all with a list of my likes and dislikes from the last couple of weeks....ahem
LIKES
-rocking out to the ghostbusters theme song on the bus. One of the buses recently bought a new best of the 80s cd...its rocking my world
-baking and cooking my own food...i only eat rice and beans once or twice a week
-my library group that i started. I read a book and have an activity once a week for the kids in my town. they seem to really like it (more so the activity than the book) but i have had a lot of support from the community and the kids show up almost on time (only 15 minutes late normally) which is like a miracle here in Nicaragua where an hour late is considered early!
-i have a little veggie garden and compost pile...but that brings me to my dislikes: CHICKENS
-the daily herding of cows that happens outside my house everyday. My neighbor moves his cows from one pasture to the other and i get to watch them all pass. You would think i wouldnt be entertained by a herd of cows anymore, i see it everyday, but it still makes me chuckle everytime
-how superstitious (i have no clue how to spell that! we will blame my half thinking and spanish and half in english!) the people of nicaragua are. My neighbors spent an hour trying to convince me there was a witch that walked our streets at night and also that the man who rides his horse but doesnt have a head always rides through our town at midnight. I thought they were joking, but they are serious. They are honestly terrified of these things. I suggested we waited up to see if he passed, perhaps offer him a refreshment and talk to him a bit, they were not amused. But this conversation still made me really happy! haha!
-my AWESOME new haircut! haha! perhaps some of you remember when I got irrated with my hair in high school and decided a Walmart haircut sounding like a good idea. Flash forward a couple of years and i did it again! I was really hot one day and decided my hair was just too long. I asked my friend to cut it, she cuts a lot of peoples hair in the town, and even better, for FREE! woohoo! i just wanted a simple haircut, but she decided to get fancy. I just chuckled to myself when she pulled out some kitchen scissors and started hacking away. I though,,,well this will be attractive. And i was right! I am now sporting, as cathy calls it, an awesome bi-level hair style! I know you are all extremely jelous, but dont fret! come to nicaragua and you too can have one! It doesnt bother me all that much...i can still put it up in a small ponytail and all is well. I just have some spiky bits coming out of the hair thing. oh and chunks wont fit in the ponytail holder,....basically i am really attractive.
DISLIKES
-CHICKENS CHICKENS CHICKENS! i think i have mentioned this before. They are annoying and only good fried. My little animal loving heart no longer feels sad for the chickens that i eat. i think, thank goodness, thats one less chicken outside my window screaming at 5 in the morning. Also they ate my first veggie garden. i shake my fist at you chickens!
-The crazy wind storm that blew off part of my porch roof and broke my garden gate. Curse you crazy wind!
-Walking the hour and a half (due to the intense wind) to one of my schools to find out my teacher didnt show up.
-TEACHER MEETINGS! the most pointless things in the entire road! luckily i brought a book and claimed to not understand what was going on...so i sat in the back and read.
Well thats all for now. keep ùpdating me on life! i miss you all!
Carolyn
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