Materials y Mango

Entonces...
We've been down here for a little more than a week and I'm already feeling myself getting back into the groove of the Nica lifestyle.
This morning was very tranquilo. Spenc and I played around on the guitar for a good while. He's going to be good. I can already tell by how fast he's picking it up. We worked on some activities we're going to bring to the school too. The third grade class is working with syllables and creating words and sentences so we made kind of a word creator where you're given the word but you have to put together different syllables on a sliding slip of paper to create the word. Might sound kind of confusing but hopefully they will like it! It's colorful, and that's what always got me as a kid....still does obviously.
For lunch we had this amazing pasta that we were quite fond of last year to say the least. Yummm. After lunch is when the adventure began.
We went with Raf and one of the teachers of the school in the Baptist church here and her mom to scope out a possible site for a mission team coming up. The problem was that since it's rained a good bit lately, we couldn't cross the river that flowed right through the only entrance/exit to the community. Therefore, Raf had Spec "wade in the water" if you will, to see how deep it went. Ha. We had to hop across some rocks to get to the other side and leave the truck there. We walked a little way, Spenc almost caught a chanchito (little pig) but it was a bit too fast. The school there in the community would have been wonderful to work at with the team but the river wouldn't allow the bus to come through so we spent the next while looking at other places close by. We looked for a couple hours at different places but couldn't find somewhere that would work. So we left with no location but with HUGE mangos that one of the ladies that lived in one of the houses we stopped at gave us from her back yard. It's amazing to me how willing and easily people just give what they've been blessed with. I love that about being here. Relationships are everything here. Sharing is normal. That's the way it should be!
We came home to 4 or 5 boys from the street sitting on the porch playing Uno :). Of course we couldn't resist that. We played a few games until Carlos stopped by!! He was the bus driver for the ministry every time I've been down here except for this year. I for sure am bummed that he's not working with us this year but seeing him was great! He seemed to be doing well and of course he was full of jokes as usual. I hope he comes to visit us again. After Carlos left, we went inside and had dinner with Dona Fide. Don Omar is in Leon hanging out with his grandsons keeping them company so it was just the 3 of us tonight.
I don't know why but since we've been down here, I get tired at like 7 every night...even when I take a siesta after lunch. It's ridiculous. But I'm still up. However, not for long. :)

Praying!

Con carino,
M.