So working here is like working anywhere except that I cannot communicate all that well. I like working with really young kids, they are so cute and will cuddle and do cute things. But I could never do it for very long. Firstly I feel like these very young kids never learn! Just to let you know, the kids I am working for are 0-4, they are really young. You tell them not to do something and then they just turn around and keep doing it. (in nica they believe in corporal punishment) you hit them on the butt and they think it is a game, you put them in time out and they laugh at you and run off. I am sure some of this has to do with the fact that I am the white lady who is just working there for a few weeks. But still, why do these kids not learn. At least when I am working with big kids, 18-21, you tell them that they are going to get punished if they keep doing something and they will think about it the next time they want to do it and weight the consequences. All in all I am glad that I only am working here for another two weeks.
Also the kids got me sick. They are all running around, noses running, picking their noses, playing in the dirt, coughing, and like above, if you tell them to cover their mouth they cough right at you. It’s a wonder I do not get a worse cold. All in all I just need to continue to down really bad Nicaraguan tea.
This week I hung out a lot with these two new Dutch girls. They are really cool, young, but cool. They are really social and have no problem inviting people out or doing something that you invite them to do. It has been nice having them around since Matt left. In fact I am even going to be doing something with them this weekend. We are going to Leon. Not exactly together, I am going on Friday and they are coming up on Saturday. They were also here last weekend as well. I wanted to see a little more of the place before I went volcano boarding! Woot! Something that they informed me about and what we will be doing together.
Originally they told me that they were going to be staying at this place called bigfoot, they also told me some things, like the toilets doing really work. So I was a little skeptical. They also told me about this other place called lazy bones. But when I got here I could not find lazy bones to save my life. So I just ended up going back to the Bigfoot hostel and getting a dorm room there, which is all I was going to get at lazy bones, and it is cheaper here. Other plus is that they are also staying here so I will know some people at the hostel already.
So on Friday night I went out to this music festival that I was told about, all I brought with me was some money and my camera. I went to the festival and found the music to be ok, I looked or a place to sit down and found one behind the stage. I got bored and decided to leave. I wandered around Leon for a little longer before I decided to just go back to the hostel and sleep. That night I slept pretty well. Until at about 6 am I woke up and was a little worried about my camera. I kept thinking I think I lost it, I don’t know where it is, I never but I back when I got home. I got up opened my locker and searched frantically for my camera but it was nowhere to be found. I had lost it. I am pretty sure that at the concert it either fell out of my pocket when I was sitting, or while I was sitting someone took it out of my pocket.
So that morning I was very sad, I only have a few weeks left to my trip and so many pictures left to take. I was also going to be going volcano boarding later in the day and really wanted to record the place and the event. So that morning when I went out to look for some breakfast I also went out looking for another camera. I first went to the radio shack but I found there that the cheapest digital camera they had was about 100 US dollars. I was not way going to pay that much for a new camera; I can get one in the states for 50 when I get back home. So I looked around for other places and asked people if they knew places that sold disposable cameras. Eventually someone pointed me to a Kodak store where I was able to buy a camera and film for only 6 dollars. And at least I not had a camera. Now I can record the kids I am working for take a picture of the hostel I am staying at, take some pictures of the Cov when I go to visit. And now I don’t care if my camera is lost or stolen, because who would want a film camera anyways.
But the long and the short of it is I will no longer be able to post pictures along with my posts, sorry.
So volcano boarding was super amazing. Myself and about 24 other tourists from all over the world took this bus out to this active volcano being led by a dude from Brooklyn. I had never seen a black mountain before and I was going to be hiking it and then riding down it on a piece of plywood! We get there is and it is really hot. It was good to be hiking but carrying a board and an awkward satchel up this really hot climb was not exactly pleasant. But the view from the top was amazing and it was soo cool to be on the top of an active volcano that could blow at any minute.
So as we are going up everyone is siking themselves up for this thing, we are all nervous and as we look down where we are going to be sliding we are all scared. I was also scared, what had I signed up for. But we all get to the spot and we line up for the ride the first two are pushed off and they go, it looked soo cool. Then it was me and another girl the girl next to me gets a good push off, but there was something wrong with mine. I did not get very far at all. I like sank into the rocks. I get a second push and I got a bit further but I was going soo slowly. It was not that pleasant. At the bottom of the hill I was going so slow that I decided to stand on my board and try boarding that was. At the very bottom I look at the bottom of my board, the white strip that was supposed to be there to make you go faster was nowhere to be in sight. My theory was that at the very top of the mountain it had fallen off, after that first push. There was also a few other people that had slow rides like me, but I was by far the slowest L
The rest of the time in Leon was nice. I met these really cool people and hung out with them, drinking and playing pool. And at an early time around 11 PM I went to bed. I am surprised at how well I slept in the hostel, after all I was sleeping in a dorm with 8 other people, all of which had gone out that night to a reggae party, but none of them woke me up and I slept like a rock. Best sleep I have gotten since Nicaragua. Go figure.
In the morning I got up had breakfast read some and left to go back with my new friend, Renata from Austria. The trip was not a bad one, and we got back around 2. After that we went to the pool in Granada because the day was just so hot, it got up to 95 yesterday. But the pool was nice and I got all pruned. I was also trying to plan a trip to Laguna de Apoyo again. But so far I do not like what I am seeing. Maybe just a day strip would be better than I night there. 12 dollar dorm room without the tax, no thank you. I’ll figure something out, second to last weekend in Granada; I might just chill and go to the pool, also a good idea.
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