Well folks, I'm back in the states, which concludes the posting on this blog once again for a bit.
Until the next continent. ;)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
i try to say goodbye and i choke...
This is our last day en Granada.
And this will probably be my last blog from Nicaragua. (if anyone even reads this anymore, lol... I haven´t been very faithful about updating lately...)
I don´t even really think I can sum up my time here well in words...
Teaching Carlos English at night was a random event that I just sort of haphazardly agreed to, and I had no idea that it would mean so much to him. I always thought I was a horrific teacher, but he actually progressed in his English! I didn´t know I had it in me... he was so grateful, and cried at our goodbye party... and said that when his son is older he´s going to tell him about us. I just didn´t expect such a simple thing to bless someone so much. It was touching.
Johanna is a lady we met at the school who gives online spanish classes at night. We randomly helped her with an event at the colegio she teaches at during the day, and after that we started helping her with her english academy that she runs out of her house on the weekends. I´ve never met anyone who works as hard as she does, and she is an amazing teacher. She teaches at the Colegio during the day, and then gives lessons at night, and after that week of teaching she teaches all weekend long. Through working at that school, we´ve gotten to know her pretty well. She is poor and works her a$@ off, but she is one of the most generous people I´ve ever met. I´m going to miss her, and the students at the school, who after classes would take us to their pueblo´s and hang with us all day.
Ramon is a guy who works at the school... doing... well, I´m not really sure what he does other than sit around and look pretty... lol... but we´ve gotten to hang out with him outside of the school a few times, and I´m really going to miss him. To be blunt, he´s flaming gay... and it´s been an eye opener too see the treatment he gets here. It´s sad how much ridicule he gets just walking down the street. He told me last night that we were the first students who ever wanted to hang out with him.
Rizo´s is a waiter at a cafe we went to all of the time and he has chatted with us since our first week here. (his real name is mario... but we call him rizos because thats the spanish word for curls and hes got a head full of ringlets he always has gelled up.) He wanted to throw us a party before we left. I never thought I´d get attached to the waiter at the cafe.
It´s been amazing really getting to know people here, and I´m sad to be leaving all these friends who treat me like family. It´s going to be very hard to get on that bus tomorrow.
BUT... everything comes to an end... I´m excited for this next week of travel though... and though I don´t really want to go home, I´m excited to see everyone. It´s weird to think that I haven´t talked to anyone at home since September! I will have a lot to catch up on when I get back for sure. ( I have not missed my cell phone one bit, and I´m pretty sure when I come back it will remain off most of the time... just a warning. I really do hate that thing...)
We aren´t going to the corn islands like we planned... we waited too long to get a ticket... so instead we are heading first to matagalpa for a few days ( a place with a few coffee and chocolate farms...) and then after that to san juan del sur ( on the pacific coast of nic.) Luckily, we can leave our giant packs with Johanna at her house and come through Granada on our way to Managua on Sunday.
So... that´s the update from me... I might not be on much next week because we are leaving the laptop in Granada, so mom don´t worry if I´m silent. ;)
And this will probably be my last blog from Nicaragua. (if anyone even reads this anymore, lol... I haven´t been very faithful about updating lately...)
I don´t even really think I can sum up my time here well in words...
Teaching Carlos English at night was a random event that I just sort of haphazardly agreed to, and I had no idea that it would mean so much to him. I always thought I was a horrific teacher, but he actually progressed in his English! I didn´t know I had it in me... he was so grateful, and cried at our goodbye party... and said that when his son is older he´s going to tell him about us. I just didn´t expect such a simple thing to bless someone so much. It was touching.
Johanna is a lady we met at the school who gives online spanish classes at night. We randomly helped her with an event at the colegio she teaches at during the day, and after that we started helping her with her english academy that she runs out of her house on the weekends. I´ve never met anyone who works as hard as she does, and she is an amazing teacher. She teaches at the Colegio during the day, and then gives lessons at night, and after that week of teaching she teaches all weekend long. Through working at that school, we´ve gotten to know her pretty well. She is poor and works her a$@ off, but she is one of the most generous people I´ve ever met. I´m going to miss her, and the students at the school, who after classes would take us to their pueblo´s and hang with us all day.
Ramon is a guy who works at the school... doing... well, I´m not really sure what he does other than sit around and look pretty... lol... but we´ve gotten to hang out with him outside of the school a few times, and I´m really going to miss him. To be blunt, he´s flaming gay... and it´s been an eye opener too see the treatment he gets here. It´s sad how much ridicule he gets just walking down the street. He told me last night that we were the first students who ever wanted to hang out with him.
Rizo´s is a waiter at a cafe we went to all of the time and he has chatted with us since our first week here. (his real name is mario... but we call him rizos because thats the spanish word for curls and hes got a head full of ringlets he always has gelled up.) He wanted to throw us a party before we left. I never thought I´d get attached to the waiter at the cafe.
It´s been amazing really getting to know people here, and I´m sad to be leaving all these friends who treat me like family. It´s going to be very hard to get on that bus tomorrow.
BUT... everything comes to an end... I´m excited for this next week of travel though... and though I don´t really want to go home, I´m excited to see everyone. It´s weird to think that I haven´t talked to anyone at home since September! I will have a lot to catch up on when I get back for sure. ( I have not missed my cell phone one bit, and I´m pretty sure when I come back it will remain off most of the time... just a warning. I really do hate that thing...)
We aren´t going to the corn islands like we planned... we waited too long to get a ticket... so instead we are heading first to matagalpa for a few days ( a place with a few coffee and chocolate farms...) and then after that to san juan del sur ( on the pacific coast of nic.) Luckily, we can leave our giant packs with Johanna at her house and come through Granada on our way to Managua on Sunday.
So... that´s the update from me... I might not be on much next week because we are leaving the laptop in Granada, so mom don´t worry if I´m silent. ;)
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