El Rosario, Nicaragua

Wow, I´ve really been lazy in keeping up with my blog. I´m sooo sorry for that! I remember when I first started this blog I wanted to be consistent in my journals and blog posts, but I´ve clearly failed in doing that... But, I am going to try to catch everyone up to what I´ve been up to these past seven weeks in El Rosario.

El Rosario is a little pueblo in the department of Carazo. Nicaragua is divided into departments- I think there are 16 total, but I´m not sure... I´ll try to post a map of Nicaragua in my next blog entry. This has been my training town for the past seven weeks.. and I have about four more weeks to go. Its been an amazing experience so far. I´m enjoying every minute of it. I live with a host family here, and they´ve been so nice and helpful. The first two weeks were a little hard, and I can´t lie... I did cry a little... no, wait... I cried a lot. I really started to miss home after we got to our training towns. It wasn´t after the end of the second and beginning of the third week that I started to feel better. I´ve really tried to establish some sort of a routine here.. por ejemplo:

I wake up around 6:30 am just about every morning... maybe with the exception of sunday- my day off! I have Spanish and culture classes from 8 to 12, and then from 1-3/4 pm. I come home and hang out with my family or somtimes I go into Jinotepe, a city outside of my little pueblo to use the internet, call peeps, or do some mandados ¨errands.¨

I haven´t really talked much about what I miss about the states:

- i miss pizza hut pan pizza... yummy.
- breakfast burritos
- nutella... with peanut butter. its so expensive here.
- of course, my mom and sister, but that´s a given!
- yes, my friends too... like you guys reading my blog.. sorry again for the delay.
- my extended family.. even if I only see some of them once or twice a year.
- my couch at home
- take-out chinese, italian, whatever
- KOREAN FOOD! MAN, I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING FOR SOME KIMCHEE.
- krav maga.. i miss this soo much. you wouldn´t believe how much i miss punching/kicking..
- my bed/pillow... my room... yes, i miss my house.
- my weekly dinners with michelle and amanda
- robek smoothies with lisa after krav or even before krav
- making my own quesadillas with salsa
- croissant sandwiches with avocado and swiss cheese
- yes, i´ll miss boot season. darn...
- pigging out... i´ve been doing a lot of that here but its not the same because i pig out on galletas ¨cookies¨too much. my sweet tooth has definitely gotten worse since i´ve been here.
- CHOCOLATE.. chocolate covered pretzels would be awesome.
- whole foods... the salmon terriyaki bowls there. ooo....

man... I need to stop! I am totally going overboard with this... but you guys get the idea.

I´m going to be finding out my site tomorrow, which I´m totally nervous about. I want to know, but at the same time I don´t want to find out because that means that the two years are just around the corner. It´s a very scary thought. I´ll be sure to update my blog this weekend.

I hope everyone knows how much I miss them! I hope you guys are doing well! Let me know how things are going. I´d love to still feel like I´m in the loop.. even though, I´m a few hundred miles away. FYI: Nicaragua is only a two hour plane ride from Miami. Plan your trips now!