I am currently visiting my site where I will be living for the next two years. I can´t say exactly where it is for security reasons, but it is a small town in the department of Rivas. Everyone seems very nice. My counterparts work in the two schools in town, the public primary school and the huge Catholic primary/secondary school. The big school has a really nice computer lab with free internet, and my host family operates an internet cafe in their house. Finally I won´t be isolated from the rest of the world anymore. I met a bunch of people today and yesterday, including the mayor, the police chief, all the teachers in both schools, and a number of other people in the community. There´s a gringa lady living in town who´s very nice. She has a lot of pets, and she says if I want to come live in her house after the first two months I can. Not sure I will though, my host family is really nice, and there are a lot of other people in town with places I can rent if I want. Tomorrow I´m going back to my training town for the last few weeks of training. Only 22 days left until I swear in, and I´ve been here nearly two months already. I´m only about an hour from my training town, so it will be really easy to go back and visit them, just a straight shot up the carretera from Rivas.
Other things that have happened in my weeks of separation from internet:
-We made our garden in the school and it got eaten by leaf cutter ants and stomped on by jerk neighborhood teenagers but it still managed to turn out well (though we´ll see tomorrow if it´s still okay).
-I had my second language interview and I progressed over an entire level, which they say is more or less unheard of.
-I saw the national bird of Nicaragua several times, plus a flock of toucans and what I believe was a flock of blue and gold macaws.
-I taught three classes in the school and I got excellent remarks on all of them.
-I went to the Peace Corps office and from the outside the compound looks a bit like a jail but inside it´s really nice.
-I realized how very much I should appreciate hot showers when I can get them. Also cable TV.
I probably ought to get off the computer now. I´ve been here for quite a while and I probably have a bunch of other stuff I need to do before lunch. I need to go home and look at my list of activities.
Adios.
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