We spent this weekend together in El Rosario, Adam’s training town. It was a happening weekend for this little town of 5,000. We were awoken at 4:00am to a marching band celebrating either a patron saint or political party, we are still unclear as to which. We put our earplugs in and fell back asleep. At 7:00, Adam opened his eyes to a less pleasant sight, a giant spider, really, really giant, though it was not a tarantula. Not that either of us are in love with tarantulas, but we have at least been informed that the tarantulas here cannot harm humans, however, this spider of tarantula size, we had no idea. We fled the room and sequestered the spider-hunting skills of Adam’s host father. After what seemed like an eternity, Adam and Pedro caught the bastard and squished him on the sidewalk. Hurray! They all had a good laugh at our reaction. It turns out that this spider is also not harmful to humans, and lives to eat the malaria carrying mosquitoes.
The other big news, El Rosario had a representative in the famous countrywide dance competition called the Travolta. Nicaragua does it right, a Saturday Night Fever themed dance contest held in Managua with a grand prize of a motorcycle. The contestant happened to be Adam’s host cousin and the host brother of another Peace Corps Trainee. 15 fans packed in a mirco bus and went to Managua to cheer him on. They returned with sad news that Onis (the name of the contestant) was second, but that he was truly the best and that the contest had been rigged. For those of you who are wondering, he danced to the song that goes “Dancing, yeahhhhh….” It really was a fantastic representation of the movie.
It was a nice weekend for us to be able to spend time together, meet Adam’s host family and the best news ever… the transportation strike ended!
Here are a few photos of Adam’s host family and the Travolta outfit / Adam’s house.
5 comments:
Dealing with nightmares featuring spiders and other creepy insects on a regular basis, I CRINGE!
MOM
OH..MY..GOSH, THAT IS DISCUSTING!! I would have flipped! It gave me the chills reading about it, I hate spiders!
I'm glad to hear that things are going well. I know the next 3 months will suck, having to be apart from each other, but I’m sure they will fly by because you’ll be so busy. Oh guess what, I know you’re a Clinton fan, which is cool, but I met and spoke with Obama when he was in town!! For like five minutes about the war and Andy, it was awesome!!!
Anywho, that’s my two bits.
By the way, when can I send a goodie package…or can I?
Merrissa
For the Record... I am not a Clinton fan, neither am I an Obama fan, and I hope it goes without saying that I will not be voting for McCain :). I have new allengiances now of which I am prohibited from discussing. Censorship my friends, sweet, sweet censorship.
I bet it's Ralph Nader!
lol
Nader? I was hoping for Ron Paul!!!! But at least you guys aren't into any of the major party candidates, that whole illusion is sickening! Crazy story about the spider, I think I would sleep with one eye open around there!! The story about the Travolta suit guy was freakin hilarious!!! Hope you guys are doing well, love you guys. Jim
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