Well, my two years and three months has officially come to an end. Wow, how quickly things pass by and change. I feel so many changes in myself and people around me and the world in general and I keep forgetting that two years IS a long time! I am back in Knoxville with the [...]
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The closer November comes, the faster the time seems to be attacking me! I have decided to move back in with my host family, Marlon and Chepa, for the last bit of time that I have left. I want to get in as many good convos with them as I can before I leave. Yesterday [...]
This week we have our close of service conference! That is crazy. Means we have been in country exactly 2 years, 3 months left to go and we are off to a new place, new experience. My stove project is wrapping up. I have about 4 stoves left in my group to finish. They have [...]
I hope your alls 4th was as fun as mine. This year we decided to try to do a US 4th of July in Nicaragua. It was sooo much fun! My neighbors had a great time watching us as well. I had some volunteer friends over and we facepainted, played games like 3-legged race, watermelon [...]
The time has come for my next update! Rainy season once again has begun. I am very very thankful for that. Although the power now frequently goes out and there are HUGE puddles I am known to nearly daily fall in, it is still so much cooler, much better indeed. For all of you who [...]
The weather here is crazy. It is still supposedly the hottest part of the summer.. yet we have had some crazy random downpours… I believe this year is goin to be very rainy indeed. I can’t wait. Things have been crazy busy lately. I want to thank EVERYONE for their help with my project. All [...]
Where to start…. there have been many eventful moments recently and many not so eventful but very memorable. I guess to begin let me mention that last week it was 115 degrees… yes thats right 115, and the frightening thing is we haven’t even gotten to the hottest part of the summer. (a candle in [...]
Well we are once again entering in to the most hottest part of the year here. March and April: they can be quite difficult months. So dry and hot. Lately we have had a strange series of overcast days with sprinkles, but that doesn’t cool anything down, it only brings on the humidity. I thought [...]
Good news! My Peace Corps Partnership has been accepted and is now available online to read and support if you would like! My group of 61 women has come together to make this project happen! Now we just have to wait until all of the support arrives and we will be able to buy all [...]
The official school vacations are coming to an end now. So strange, they have vacation during Christmas and New Years and in the states usually it is during the summer months. It was kind of nice and peaceful with the kids not in school. I feel like the get all hyper-active and crazy once school [...]
I hope everyone had a most lovely Thanksgiving! We all got to go to embassy families or Peace Corps staff families homes to eat. Turkey and stuffing is wonderful no matter what country you are in!
I just got back about two weeks ago from Guatemala. I took a week of vacations and me and Nicole [...]
s many of you may or may not know… I did a quick dash in and out of the US of A… it was quite last moment due to my very very not good planning, but it turned out well as I got to surprise almost EVERYONE I saw. It never gets boring seeing the [...]
Ok… so I was informed by my mother that the title of my past blog only halfway has anything to do with the blog itself.. apparently I completely omitted anything about frogs. I will amend that now!
So I have this quasi-bench outside my front door that my dog was barking at strangely the other [...]
One of the many things we take for granted I believe are cellphones. Whenever I bought a phone back in the states I never worried about the fact that it possibly could be a stolen phone and that most likely I would receive random phone calls from people looking for Carlos. Poor Carlos got his [...]
Well we’ve apparently got only two months left of the rainy season and still we don’t have rain. Things aren’t looking too good for all of the farmers these days. There seems to be a drought of some sort affecting León, Chinandega, and other parts of Nicaragua. Hopefully it will pass soon before it is [...]
I am sure some of you perhaps are wondering what has been going on down here in steamy central america… well I have returned to the land of communication to let you know! My new house is simply lovely! I have put a few photos up, they are from before I did my most dazzling [...]
Today I realized that it was necessary for me to get to Leon in order to do some work before a meeting tommorow. This came to my attention about 8 am.. after my 5:30 am bus had already passed. I decided that it was still necessary and got my bags together to begin my journey. [...]
Alright… so I haven’t dropped of the face of the earth, although it may appear to be the case! So I was thinking the other day and realized that in only four small months I will have been here for a year. That is bizarre to think about. Time really goes so fast sometimes, although [...]
Yes I know.. it has been way to long.. and no this post will not cover everything that has occured. In fact it is only to let you all know that I am still alive and I haven´t forgotten to update… only I haven´t had the time! I have moved into my own house… I [...]
In some quick updates here that will not be so quick. Apparently there was a earthquake from the volcano a couple nights ago I didnt feel.. hmm not sure how I feel about that. It is beautiful to look at the volcanos every morning when I wake up.. but the fact that they are active, [...]
Life in Nicaragua. Sometimes it hits me. I am living in Nicaragua near an active volcano that smokes constantly and learning another language. It is a bizarre realization at times, but a good one. Days pass slowly but time goes by pretty quickly here. I have been in my site for about three weeks. I can´t [...]
So I am living in my site now! Things are beginning to happen, but it is difficult to adjust to the slow pace of life here. I am meeting people bit by bit but it is definitely a process. I am excited to get to work. This week will be mainly planning the community bank [...]
I am in my new home.. La Fuente (the fountain)… and I can tell I am going to have to learn to be patient. Things go a lot slower here. I have a room with a dirt floor and last night I had a nice little friend to sleep with… a teenie little brown mouse.. [...]
So after three months of training we have finally been sworn in as officially peace corp volunteers.. and it feels good. Time has really flown by and it is so crazy to think of how far we have come and what we have learned. It is amazing to think of myself when I first arrived [...]
Alright.. so I accidentally put in the incorrect country code in the last blog.. i updated it so its fixed now.. but in case you don’t want to reread that one here is the information on my phone here again:
011 505 831 1843
I will not check messages though because it is expensive and receiving calls [...]
OK so i have uploaded some photos for you all to enjoy.. they are in chronological order .. Enjoy
I would also like to update you all on the newest development: I have a phone!!
011 505 831 1843
I will not check messages though because it is expensive and receiving calls and texts is free for me!!! Also If [...]
Once again much has occured since my last post. Where to begin… well I suppose to start with my reason for not posting has been my latest run-in with some bad food. This happens frequently in a new country of course, but one would expect it to occur with the food of this country, right, [...]
I am here to write again and give some updates on my latest ventures in Nicaragua. Things are so amazing and changing down here. The seasons have gone from hot to rainy all the time.. There is not a day where the rain doens´t downpour.. meaning it takes over a week for clothing to try. [...]
Well I am finally getting to write again amongst all of the electricity outages and raining rampages.. we do believe that they schedule to turn off the electricity.. it just makes more sense that way. Haha. There are so many things to update about.. where to start, how about privacy.. that is one thng there [...]
Well here are some photos from the latest events…
The group of us at the top are a couple other volunteers that I am working with on our first outing to the nearby city.
We learned to cut tires and flip them inside out to make little gardens out of. The flipping was fun and a bit [...]
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