Number 24

Hello everyone in the United States!
I know I’m terrible that I haven’t really been keeping up with this blog but hey I would think that my true friends and family members would know me by now in KNOWING that I was going to be slow with this . So here I am in Nicaragua, and I’m not going to sugar coat anything ITS BEEN TOUGH! The beginning was amazing I absolutely love the group that I came here with staging was amazing everyone I met which is 53 Peace Corps Trainees have such amazing personalities, goals, and have already done so much. Haha the very first day of staging in Washington we got this orange sheet that listed all these interesting facts about everyone, so we had to find the fact about ourselves and then go around introducing yourself and finding out everyone else’s fact. It was just one of those ways to get everyone talking. So I’m looking down this list and some of these people are amazing! Almost everyone’s had something to do with working overseas, saving the world and then you roll up to mine (#24) graduated with a degree in art (painting and drawing) so here I’m thinking alright I’m pretty boring and what I loved was how when people would talk to me they would be like “OH you’re the artist! I have been dieing to meet you!” I wouldn´t want to meet me when theres someone who working in 5 different countries in Africa?!?! Haha. This whole ordeal gets even better! I come to realize that # 24 wasn’t even my number! I was really #43 working at college functions by controlling the clock and score board!!!! OH MY GOD! Anyway that was my first day experience…
After days of lectures after lectures after lectures you know getting us prepared for this big step of move in day with the host family. It finally happens all of us had to split up the Tefle went far away, Agriculture went even farther away and I’m about 40 minutes away from Managua (the capital) living in a small pueblito called La Palmera right outside of Diriamba which is the city area. I was the first one of the Environment Ed group to get dropped off so I was really really nervous when I met my sister Leila I gave her a hug and I heard the whole bus go AWWWW haha. My family is amazing I love them so much already and its only been a week. Of course I have been acting very strange now and then because I’m home sick but they are really supportive so the family consists of my Host mother Aceida, my dad Ramiro, my 18 year old sis Leila, 16 yrs old sis Beatriz, and my 14 year old brother Ramiro. Along with 5 dogs one who’s pregnant and I cant wait to have little pups running around a parrot and another kind of bird the parrot is hysterical every time she sees someone at the door she goes BUENAS! Haha its great. And two piggys that hangout in the back haha I love hearing them eat right by my window every morning and their squeeling is probably the scarest thing to wake up to, but the dogs protect them.
OKay so I have been trying to figure out how to get pictures on here but its some how not working right now haha and im getting frustrated so PICTURES WILL COME on a later date
:( sorry guys!