this past week we each went to go visit a current volunteer. i didn´t have too far to travel, while many others in my group were taking 8 hour bus trips to exotic locations. if you couldn´t tell, i was pretty upset with the situation at first, not because i was staying in the same department, but because i´d already visited and observed this volunteer. i was really looking forward to checking out how another volunteer lived, but didn´t get the opportunity...it turned out to be a good time, nontheless.
crap, i forgot to bring the picture of the scorpion. sorry.
we have a youth group in our community of about 15 kids. they laugh at us when we try and communicate. anyway, we decided to plant trees at the institute as a community project, but the first two times, none of the youth showed up to plant. nicas are interesting in that way...they´ll swear up and down that they´ll come to a meeting even if they have no intention of going. it´s kind of frustrating. in the end, we had to go to their school and take them out of class to plant the trees. good story, eh?
so we have our second class this week. the theme is ¨my life in 10 years.¨ i´ll let you all know how it goes on tuesday.
we went to an active volcano yesterday: volcan masaya. it was pretty cool. here are some pictures:
we went on a little bit of a hike, and this is what the volcano looks like from a distance.
these are the chicago peeps. on the left is danica, owen is in the middle, and i´m on the other end. in nicaragua, if you want to point at something, you use your lips similar to what we´re doing in this picture...
this is a picture of the majority of nica 47. i think there are 8 people missing...
oh, and i was going to have someone send me a pumice stone, but i found a great one on the volcano.
yesterday we also celebrated avi´s birthday. it got a little out of hand...we all drank too much, but had a good time overall. kat´s on the left, then me, then owen, and bobby is on the right with the dog.
So, we get all the info on the possible sites next week, and we find out where we´re going the following week. we don´t really have a say in where we go, but we do get to discuss with the country director where we´d like to go and why. we´re all super curious about where we´ll be living for the next two years. once we get our final site placements, we go and visit for a few days and stay with the family with which we´ll be living for at least the first 6 weeks of service...
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Hey! That volcano looks awesome. I have to admit though I was a little shocked to see you wearing jeans? I miss you but it looks like you have some awesome peeps in your group to keep you entertained :) Package on the way! Look for the Jesus stickers.
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