Don't know where to begin.
Yes, Alba returned a few days later, apparently she never changed her voting address so she had to go vote in a different city and then just stayed there because it was physically impossible to get back. Alba is hardcore Sandinista, no matter what, including this radical Danielista crap. Her son, not so much, but she doesn't know that. Interesting story how I came to find this out, but he earned a lot more respect in my book.
The blog about politics is coming, it's just very long and complicated and is probably going to include more corruption and / or violence than any of you care to read about while i'm still here.
Classes have been happening inconsistently at best.
Lots of rallies, mortars, fireworks, rocks. And road closings, that's the best, when you finally think it's okay to go to the mall and then it takes 40 minutes to get home because all the roads are closed. Or when you can't get out in the first place because the PLC is having a peace march but the Sandinistas find out and surround them at their starting place and hold them there by pointing mortars at the crowd and blocking off all the streets.
Regardless, I go home in 2.5 weeks, my friends live with this :( The other day, the lady here that coordinates int'l students, Kathe, cried in front of us. It was the saddest thing ever. They don't know what to do about their country anymore :(
Last week I went on a field trip to Granada...not too exciting. Thursday I went on one to Ticuantepe with Sustainable Development. We broke into groups and interviewed families about their lives / jobs / etc. It was reallllly cool.
On Thanksgiving I have a flight out to an island off the Caribbean coast for 4 days in the sun :) However, what I DON'T have is a bathing suit because apparently mine and my cover up got stolen off the clothesline AND they only sell bathing suits in Nicaragua around semana santa?
questions about anything - pregúntame because this is like the opposite of all my other blogs.
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Holy shit!
So I got like a million questions, but I'm sure it would be impossible to answer most of them through text online.
Lighter question: Is not having class nice?
From what I've read, the whole governmental situation seems in shambles and the sandinistas are not the best choice by a long shot.
It bums me out that countries are in situations like this, yet people here don't even vote.
i suck for never responding to this...but yea hopefully i can explain stuff better when i get home (in 11 days!)
not having class had the potential to be nice, except that it meant it was too dangerous to go out so i was confined to my room where i didn't even have any hw because i didn't have class to have it assigned...
i LOVE that you said shambles because that's how i explain it and i've got everyone down here using that word :)
update: they're still trying to get the elections canceled, but they don't have enough votes in the national assembly...
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