So this is Peace Corps

Oh man, did I have a typical Peace Corps experience yesterday. After coming back from the ´city´ on a much needed break from my small town—we didn´t have lights for coming on 4 days and our well was dried out—our bus broke down! Of course I was slightly oblivious to what was happening and thought it was just a scheduled stop, in the middle of nowhere, but my seatmate and the lady I am living with, Areyles, informed me that the bus could have flipped over and we were lucky not to die. Don´t worry Mom, she was exaggerating; we just had a bent axel. True for of a PC experience, about 5 minutes after everyone got off the bus so they could jack it up, it started pouring! And I´m talking cats and dogs. So we all slowly trickled back into the bus, guiltily preventing the men from fixing it, which it turned out was a lost cause anyways. The bus driver and guy who collects the money ended up sleeping in the bus in the middle of the highway (and I use that term loosely) and Areyles and I hitched a ride with 2 German priests and their blond surfer friend. Instead of getting back to Morrito at 6pm as intended, I arrived just before 11pm…and guess what; the power was out once again.

But now I am back in my site, powered up on pizza and way too much ice cream from the city. The health center is mainly focused on swine flu and we are giving charlas on prevention techniques...aka hand washing. I am also finally going to go see one of the communities around Morrito for the first time. I´m currently waiting for the truck to head out. It was supposed to leave at 9:00 and it is currently 10:15, but so is life in Nicaragua. But I am very happy here and constantly having a conversation with someone, and even understanding about 60% of what he or she is saying. I´ll work on getting pics up soon, so you can all see how lovely Morrito is.