I really have no idea how I´m going to make this a satisfying report for all you out there, but I am certainly going to try…
This week was our last in language school, and everyone is starting to feel a little awed by the rapidly approaching end date, coming to destroy all our fun. Well, maybe not all so melodramatic as that, but still, it´s a mighty odd feeling.
School was enjoyable for some, less so for others, but I think that everyone this week not only recovered all the ground we lost speaking English to eachother since Xela, and then some, considerably. Anjali, for example, began this trip with not a word of Spanish, but now understands a very respectable amount of what is said around her.
Group ¨togetherness¨gained some new dimensions this week; we all paired up for our homestays in light of logistical problems in Xela, among other things, and I think everyone is now closer to the group then before.
After school every day has been a tad more boring then in Xela, though not because there is little do to. Rather, it is because it is hot as all hell down here, in this, the perportedly hottest city in Nicaragua. We found a supercheap movie theater, and hit it up two days in a row, for no small part because it has some seriously awesome air conditioning. We saw Monsters Vs. Aliens, a clever kids movie in that blobby animation that is so popular in kids movies these days, and it was in Spanish, to boot. The next day, we saw Bride Wars, with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, and I personally would have disliked it more had it not been in the supercool theater.
This week also happens to be Semana Santa, an extremely important holiday week down here, culminating in Easter Sunday after many festivities and parades with Jesús and Mary floats. Being Good Friday today, there are several large parades in town at various parts of the day, and we are´ll going to a big parade tonight in the center of town, because we don´t have class tomorrow and don´t need to hit the sack early tonight, for a short change.
Tomorrow we may go to the beach, but it is supposed to be obscenely crowded this week,and as were are going to be on beaches essentially for the rest of the trip, I think tomorrow will more likely be a lazy day before we head off to church in the evening, those of us that want to, anyway, for an early Easter service, as we will be heading out early Sunday morning for Parque Maderas, our next stop.
Hoping I wrote enough,
Tim for the CAM Carpe Diem group
