Instead
writing about my past few weeks, I figured I’d let some pictures with captions
do the talking.
We got a piglet!
It would have been welcome to the family,
but unfortunately I have to change it to RIP Mariposa. You escaped the rough life of most dogs
in Nicaragua. (I hope preceding this with a cute pig
made this one a bit better….?)
Classes get cancelled a lot here for
whatever reason with little to no warning (quite a change from back
home…nothing short of the pending apocalypse would have kept my high school
superintendent from calling classes). Sometimes, however, it’s nice to make the most out of
the situation and go for an awesome hike with some Peace Corps friends!
I made tree nurseries with
my two schools!
I was hiking around the ecolodge near my
site the other day and got within 4 feet of a sloth!! Didn’t have a camera with
me though…
It is much more acceptable here just toss
any trash you have on the ground.
It will be a big project trying to change this habit in my
students! That being said, I got
really excited yesterday to see a group of people in my community collecting
trash. I quickly grabbed my camera
and joined in!
Unfortunately, all of the trash was then
burned in several piles. There is
no trash collection here, so I regularly smell burning plastic…yum! That being said, it’s still nice to see
groups of community members doing something about the trash problem. One step at a time!
And just for good measure, here’s a dog
with unproportionately large ears.
(And for the Sawbill Crew: Imagine Roy with those ears!)
