So I had big plans to update my blog today (at last), and post photos from the past two weeks that are long overdue. But, while I finally have fast enough internet to load photos, my computer won´t recongnize the USB I have the photos on.
Story of my life here.
If it´s not one thing, it´s another.
But so it goes, and I hope no one was too desperate for a photo update. So much has happened in the past two weeks, I don´t know where to begin!
About two weekends ago, CIEE spent the weekend in the mountains of Jinotega, at a school for high school aged students, where we got to work with pigs, chickens, cows, vegetables and coffee, alongside the students there who were learning agrarian skills. That story will have to wait for photos, although photos won´t even do it justice. Let´s just say that all of us were reluctant to go back to Managua that weekend.
The most major change these past few weeks happened last weekend, when nothing in particular happened except that I suddenly began to feel like I actually live here. All of a sudden I realized I have fallen in love with this country, and I am already dreading the end of June when I know I will have to say goodbye to my life here. Five months is not enough time! I have started to make friends with people who aren´t exchange students (what?? anyone who has studied abroad will probably understand what a big step that is), Spanish is getting easier and easier to understand and speak, and I can now haggle for a taxi like a pro.
So the last two weeks in a nutshell... I learned to use a machete, saw a night sky with more stars in it than I ever thought possible, started volunteer work with an organization for at-risk youth (more to come about that one), learned a little salsa, got a cold, got better, randomly ended up playing soccer with special agents from the US Embassy in Managua, became a Nicaraguan history nerd, and officially settled into my life here, at last.
It has been a good two weeks.
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