Jaime, the other volunteer who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s staying at the house with me, arrived last night. After 9 hours of traveling. She left the house in Managua around 10 am and got to Achuapa 9 hours later, hotter and sweatier and generally more exhausted.
\nEven though today was July 19th, the revolution celebration day (like July 4th), there were no festivities here. They celebrate more their personal village revolution that happened June 30th. Oh well. We just saw some boys in the street playing volleyball. As we were walking by the ball came sailing towards me and I thought \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWeee! FUN!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and got ready to hit it before some boy stole my glory. Jerk.
\nI need to start writing down some recipes. I think that would help my endeavor to make Nicaraguan food when I get home. I love everyone in the house, but Juan is never really around since he has a girlfriend. Oh well. No loss. He just sits around in a towel when he is home. Carlo, on the other hand, is my favorite. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so sweet. Today I taught him and Jaime how to play some card games since Jaime brought them some cards for a present for the family (they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re boston red sox cards. Carlo was not very pleased. Haaaahahaha. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great ongoing joke, since he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in love with the Yankees). So we played games for a while and hung out. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so nice to have someone to talk in English to.
\nMy daily schedule has been realllly ridiculously slow. Wake up. Hang out. Lunch. Hang out. Dinner. Hang out. during \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchang out\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been reading, writing, talking to the family, napping, etc. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been really nice but a little boring. Hopefully tomorrow the library will work out, although I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a little sad to not be able to hang out with Carlo. But he has school tomorrow so I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be able to play with him anyways.
\nThe deal with the library and the photo sessions is thus: there is a computer but the keyboard is broken. So the computer software is out. AND the electricity isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t working in the library either since the transformer or something is broken. Someone was supposed to come for several days but has not yet shown up. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to use the printer in my house and just work with the kids and the cameras during the day at the library.
\nI tried to wash my clothes today. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTried\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 being the keyword because I got through 4 items before wanting to be dead. It takes forever, arm strength, energy, water, soap, uugh. I used to read books about people paying one another to do the laundry and thought \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPSH! So weird! Why PAY someone to do that. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a little scrubbing!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 but you have to get your whole body into the scrubbing and then once something isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dirty anymore with sweat and mud you have to get the soap out. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the hardest part. So, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking that my clothing is going to feel a little starchy because I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get the soap out. OH FRICKIN WELL. GIVE ME STARCHY CLOTHES ANY DAY! My hands are red from it. And I have SO much more laundry to do.
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\nLove and Light, Hilary
\nP.S. What did Matt end up doing for his birthday? Anything exciting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jaime, the other volunteer who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s staying at the house with me, arrived last night. After 9 hours of traveling. She left the house in Managua around 10 am and got to Achuapa 9 hours later, hotter and sweatier and generally … Continue reading