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I will be spending the next two years in Dolores, in Carazo, which is the department just south of Masaya.

Emo warning...still "El arroz esta llorando porque no lo comiste!" LOL and "Are you approaching Zen?"

Yesterday I walked into a room with a bunch of confidence and walked out feeling like shit. It was my first really bad day (apart from my sick ones). Basically I made a fool of myself in front of my boss. TOtally unacceptable. If I had written this post last night it would have been much uglier, but I´m over it, for now.

TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY IT´S GONNA BE CRAZY.

I guess I´ll post the big news tomorrow.
Also, Halloween is this weekend, and there is some celebration called aguizote...anyway my family wants me to dress up in my sari. We´ll see about that. Also the volunteer that last lived with my family is coming tomorrow to party. That should be funn.

"...y eso nejita bonita que puedo hacer para que no estes asi? ;-)"

Um, I´ve been a slacker here, sorry, but my head is in desperate need of emptying.
My mom has been making angry requests for photos and all I can say right now is that they are coming soon.
Two weeks ago I was sicker than I´ve ever been (I think) but now I´m a lot better con un poquito de tos. Last week we had this intense training week of teaching in Matagalpa, Matagalpa, and we got to stay in this AWESOME hostel que se llama La Buena Onda and it was actually opened by a PVC who went back after his service and stays 3 months at a time to run it as well as a bar in the same city. It´s pretty sweet. If you´re ever in Nicaragua you should definitely go to Matagalpa and you should definitely stay at La Buena Onda.
There is a lot of work to do tonight and this whole week in general. I have to plan a workshop session (with Sam and Julie) for Nicaraguan english teachers about interactive speaking activities, I have to plan a lecture for my youth group on tolerancia, I have to plan another youth group meeting I think Peace Corps wants us to teach reading but we want to do prepositions, that´s not important, what I was about to do was whine about Peace Corps training, but I am deciding not to, because it´s not necessary and I think I´m just a little homesick today.
Umm...we also have to revise our resumes and translate them into spanish this week. AND, to top it all off, I´ve been promised that I´m going to teach at least one class at the instituto this week, which is what I´ve been needing and wanting, but it´s just a busy week.

Um, I went to my sisters 19th bday celebration last night at a club in Managua, and it was pretty fun.

Everyone hold me to this: I will be serenaded before I leave Niquinohomo.

We find out our sites on Friday!!!! Eeekkk!!! I think I might cry or have some kind of similar physical reaction. Or not.

I feel like laughing really hard so as soon as you finish reading this please post a video on my facebook wall.

My Spanish has not improved as much as it should have and I´m not quite sure what I´m doing wrong.


I should go sort out my brain right now.

All of a sudden I'm an English teacher and it is the most difficult thing I've ever done.

Last Friday, we were given packets that had descriptions of sites listed as A through Q, and we were told that we should think about our top three by today, Monday, for the "site fair", where volunteers that are currently serving in the departments where we could potentially go come and talk about them. I went in there with preferences but after hearing about all of the places I don´t really care. It would be crazy to live on Omotepe, the island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua right next to two volcanoes. Or in the uncharted territory of R.A.A.S. (yes, raas, Region Autonomo Atlantico del Sur) where there has never been a TEFL volunteer and where they speak Creole English. Or, in Nueva Segovia or Jinotega, right on the border of Honduras, where only last year the first TEFL volunteers were sent.
But I would also be fine here, in Masaya, or even neighboring Carazo, just not Niquinohomo because I want to start fresh somewhere.
Yeah you probably have to look at a map of Nicaragua to understand some of that.
But anyways, we went to a volcano on saturday, and Ive never been that close to one before so that was cool. there was smoke coming out of it.
saturday night we celebrated a trainees bday at someones house, that was fun.
Training is stressfull. I have classes to teach and a youth group to practice lots of things on and a workshop to make up and a cough to get rid of and journals and portfolios to write and skills to develop and learning to do about TEFL.
Speaking of which, I have to go plan when to meet to plan for tomorrows youth group,
Peace. =)

Mi Niña Bonita

So there are some frustrations I should note:
There are 5 trainees sharing one counterpart, so its very hard to be able to teach a class, and we have to teach 4 by the end of training and write portfolios on them and stuff.
Actually thats the biggest one.

Youth group is back on track with our regulars at our old location because the instituto failed. (not the students though, never) and let me just tell you about Carlos and Dinora and Cindy and Jose Alberto and Andrea and Sabjha and Ana and Ines: I dont know what to say but I love them. Even when they walk out of youth group to text their boyfriends and show up half an hour late.

Um, Julie has a really hot nephew who is 20 or 21. That´s pretty much all I have to say about that. Oh and hes in a band. I drool.

And I miss garba season a lot. So, I might start something here. Well see.

Also, you get to click on a link and read updates about my life, so I expect emails or something from yall. Please.

I missed college for a good 10 minutes today.