t-minus one month
after a few months of dragging my feet, despite my excitement (trust me, it was mostly due to school overwhelming my schedule)— i’m finally starting to get prepared for nicaragua. fundraising, packing, and now, blogging. i’m really excited to go back to the planetarium, the place of cold showers and poor plumbing and gallo pinto, the place full of incredible program directors and awesome nicans. it all begins in less than a month.
on june 9, i’ll be flying out of miami (hopefully… tbd) to arrive in managua, nicaragua. i don’t know if this arrival can top the last one, where our program directors picked us up in the two cars manna owns—a microbus and a nissan patrol— and emily and kyle greeted us in insane tropical clothing. after picking up all bags +1 (whoops), we drove fast and furious through the bumpy and awesome third world roads that dominate managua. through a series of earthquakes and political coups, managua still hasn’t built itself back up from the trouble it faced in the 20th century. and with the creation of la chureca, the local dump where manna serves, a lot of resources are going into taking the trash out of the water, as opposed to rebuilding the city. i say all of this from what i saw, and not from actual study. if anyone actually knows what’s up in managua, please fill me in!
paz,
