We realize that we have done a pretty terrible job updating our blog so far, but hopefully once training is over, we will become much more consistent. A lot has happened since we last posted. We had our first hurricane, Alma was her name, and though she was but a wee little hurricane, she seemed damn strong here. We had days of torrential rain and flooding. We were held captive in our houses and classes were canceled, but I (Lara), fashioned a boat out of palm leaves and paddled my way to Adam’s training town for a weekend of damp, clammy clothes that still haven’t dried. The other bit of gloom (before the happy news of course) was the bacterial infection with a side of UTI, or should I say Toña with an order of contaminated plantain chips? Fortunately, I was promptly taken to the laboratory and filled with antibiotics, so I am good as new.
They have been keeping us very busy. We were out of our training towns for most of last week visiting volunteer married couples. For some reason, Adam and I were sent to different volunteers in different parts of the country (two other guys from my town were sent together to the same volunteer, figure that out), but we survived and had nice visits in our respective cities, Adam in Masaya and Lara in Chinandega.
Last weekend we went to an event called a hipico. I have no clue how to translate this event into English because I’ve never seen anything like it. It was a big parade of dancing horses with a mix of sober and not-so-sober people riding them. Apparently, it is possible to train horses to walk sideways and run in place and do cool stuff like that, who knew?! We are pretty sure they were feeding the horses club drugs though because they were all sweating profusely, foaming at the mouth and had glow sticks tied to their tails… ok, the glow stick part is a lie, but everything else is 100% true. If you ever have the opportunity to attend a hipico, do not pass it up!
We also went to a volcano called Volcán Masaya and hiked around a bit. Here are a few pictures. Unfortunately, we do not have any photos of the horse rave, so you will have to take our word for it.
Emmy, we have a triplet!!!
3 comments:
Glad to see you aren't dead. We miss you at WACA!
i seriously cant believe that. that is crazy, our long lost sister. she better be cool if she bears that mark :) that is amazing, i love hers more than mine, it has a big head and does not look like mine, a small headed dove with fetal alcohol syndrome :( i miss grande!!
that volcano reminds me of spinach lasagna for some reason.
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