The Spanish here is beautiful, musical even. I love the intonations here. It is almost as if people are singing when they speak. It makes it a bit difficult to understand, however.
Today, the state school was cancelled and, as a result, we saw a huge turnout in the morning class. There was somewhere around 25 people. For us, in the morning, that is making some progress. Also, we sent out our community leader, Carla, and permanent pre-school teacher, Yesena, around the community to do a census and to hand out a flyer about the school. The flyer listed our hours, the fact that we are an award winning pre-school, the fact that we have a fulltime, government educated teacher, on staff, and the fact that we serve fruit twice a day and rice and beans once a day.
We have also seen a few parents around the school, picking up or dropping of their children. It is great to see parents taking an active role in their children’s education.
I am excited, the day after tomorrow I will be moving out of the jail cell and into an actual room. That is exciting. I also went shopping for the first time last night so I have food in the house. I guess it is becoming a little more like home every day.
In other news, it is official—Jenna Slack (for those of you who do not know, the girl I have been dating for a while now) has been accepted as a Global Vision Volunteer and will be joining me in Nicaragua on the 3rd of July and will be staying until we both leave on the 23rd of August. It is definitely a relief. I have been missing her terribly. I, of course, probably miss whoever has enough initiative to read these blog posts as well, so do not feel left out if you are not mentioned.
I also have pictures I want to share with you all. I just keep forgetting to bring my USB cord to put them on the computer. Next time!
Adios, until next time,
Patrick
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