{"id":313,"date":"2004-07-14T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T01:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=313"},"modified":"2004-07-14T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T01:04:16","slug":"hello-from-nica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/07\/14\/hello-from-nica\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello From Nica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey,<br \/>\nWell, we have finally found an internet cafe that we can use and understand&#8230;.. kinda.<br \/>\nWe made it safe and sound to Esteli and we happened to meet the president of Nicaragua in the airport and again on the plane. It was a very intresting experience. We made a new friend, her name is Bertha and we met her in the airport. She is Nicaraguan and lives in Managua. She was traveling back from a vacation with her family and they seem very nice, I know that you did not want us traveling to Managua but they have offered to let us stay in their house and show us around. They also have a house in San Juan Del Sur that they might take us too. If we go to Managua we would go on our second or third weekend. Second if it is up to me, third if it is up to Hilary.  I love the family I am staying with, it is huge. There are ten of them. 11 including me. They are very nice and both me and Hilary really enjoy talking to them&#8230;.. if you can call it talking. Class\u00c2\u00a5s are going very well, although they are a pain in the ass. Our Spanish is improving rapidly but we still have no idea what we are doing. Esteli is a very nice little city, and aside from the daily harassment Hilary receives, it is going very well. Much much love, and I will talk to you soon. As I said phones are few and far between, but you may be able to call my house. If you want to , you should try to  call around 8 or 9 ur time.  Hilary would like to say something so&#8230;<br \/>\nlove matt<\/p>\n<p>HEYA! just to reiterate what Matt said, we\u00c2\u00a5re doing just dandy. His family is really, really sweet, and one of them speaks pretty good English so it&#8217;s a) easy to talk with him and b) we learn a lot because he can say a word in English if we don&#8217;t understand it in Spanish.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to get Matt to go to MIRAFLOR this weekend, LEON AND MASAYA next weekend, and MANAGUA the third weekend. Bertha and her family are really nice, and they tried to slip us past customs, but the Presidents bodyguards wouldn&#8217;t let us cuz we had too many bags. Deeply amusing. and when we were confused in the airport in Managua and couldn&#8217;t find our driver (because we are stupid and blind) the President helped us out.<br \/>\nWe aren&#8217;t getting into trouble, so no worries.<br \/>\nMatt is learning a ridiculous amount of Spanish tambien.<br \/>\nadios, much love, and tell everyone we say hi (you could post this in the blog if you wish)<br \/>\nlove and Light, Hilary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Well, we have finally found an internet cafe that we can use and understand&#8230;.. kinda. We made it safe and sound to Esteli and we happened to meet the president of Nicaragua in the airport and again on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/07\/14\/hello-from-nica\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}