"Love is just God on a good day..."

So the past few days have been pretty standard...today was supposed to be our last spanish class but apparently it needs to be 40 hours, and we've only done 30 so we'll finish it up next week...i really don't see how anyone will get anything but an A because we are not learning anything new...the German kid Max is way too much to handle. I could keep a whole blog based on the things he says/does that make Kristen and I laugh for hours on end when we try to explain him to other people...I was so mad at my teacher today for making me work with him, it's impossibleeeee. Today after class we walked to Metro Centro to get a late lunch cuz I cannot do the UCA food anymore. I'll try it again next week sometime but I have been sooo sick. Greisy is too. Booooo. We also talked to Kathe today about the living sitch. Apparently our complaints were nice compared to what other people have said so Kathe is going to talk to Alba to at least try to rectify the lack of fruit situation. I could go into more detail about why they probably won't put any Fairfield students here again but I don't want anyone to worry...It's not horrible, I don't hate it, and it's not ruining the rest of my experience...it's just like...whatever. We got JUICE with Alex, the other American girl that lives here, after we got back from Metro Centro...I legit drink only water...sometimes a gatorade for lunch to help with the constant dehydration...but iced tea and lemonade never tasted so good. Her and Dave leave for Corn Island on Sunday and we'll see them just one more time before they had back to the states :(

Anyway, it still hasn't rained here and we need it bad. Even the Nicaraguans are complaining about how hot it is...This weekend we have a long weekend due to a national holiday so UCA is taking us on one of our 2 included trips within Nicaragua (somehow I'm pretty sure it will end up being the only one though...and we probably won't get our costa rica trip either...). We are going to Rio San Juan which shares a border with Costa Rica so its pretty far. In the U.S. it would probably take a few hours to get there...for us it will take 9 hours on the bus plus a 1.5 hour boat ride...can't wait!!! we leave at 5am our time..getting picked up at 4am...waking up at 330...whcih leaves me about 3 hours to sleep...of course i'm the least tired the day i actually have somtehing to wake up for...hopefully i can sleep on the bus! I won't have any internet there and maybe limited cell service...I'll be back Tuesday night-ish and then we start our first day of class!! (Let's see how long that excitement lasts...)

Also - I may be doing an internship with Fe y Alegria teaching English.... :) I hope it works out!

IF YOU LOVE

You might quiet the whole world for a second
if you pray.

And if you love, if you
really love,

our guns will
wilt.


i know it must be hard. but i am here.
your friends are here. God is here.
you probably won't even read this..
but we're all praying for you and your family
through this difficult time. <3