Life is still life, no matter where you live it.

So I have had a lot of time to think lately. Being that I am not doing much. And that it is holiday time, and got a few days off to hang out with some other volunteers. I had some good times over the christmas holiday. Bought some cute gifts for ppl here, and also bought myself some good times as well. I have decided that i need to journal better, and then that way my blog wouldn´t be quite as random and boring.
The reason I am even in the cyber right now is that I am sick, again. hahaha, oh the joys of being sick in nicaragua. THis time was worse than before, and i didn´t think that could happen. To save you all the not so pretty details, lets just say fate has a funny way of making you miss your last bus so you get to stay in a house that has a REAL toilet in the room less than 6 steps from your bed so that when you are running to the toilet every 5 minútes in the middle of the night you don´t have to leave the room, much less the house. And thank god that we don´t flush the toilet paper here and you have to have a trashcan in every bathroom, b-c vomiting while having diarrea is not convienient. So maybe I didn´t spare the details, but that´s because without them it would sound like i had the flew, not some bacteria that caused me to expel all liquid that i had ingested in the last 24hrs. Gracias a dios I had amazing ppl here to help me, including other volunteer friends who brought me suero (rehydration salts) and dramamine. It was a long 2 days, but i´m better now, well i have a cough, a very loud, annoying cough, damn that asma. Asma and chinandega dust don´t exactly "le cae bien" as they say here. So I´m going to Managua on Monday to get my lungs looked at.
But I couldn´t be luckier. The family that has taken me in here, has been amazing. They are making sure that I am getting everything i need and don´t let me do anything to help out around the house. But there is definately something to be said about Nicaraguan Hospitality. I really think that it has no borders. I don´t know what i would do without them.
It´s funny how similiar things are here with the US and oh how different they are at the same time. I mean, for instance, the transportation system in the country is amazing. Sure you may only have a bus that leaves your town 2x a day, but you can get literally anywhere in the country simply by bus, and you usually don´t have to wait too long. Not to mention the fact that you can move anything you want on the bus with you. (that can be a pain when you are just another passsenger on the bus and people decide to move a whole living room set and you have to wait for them to get it secure on the top of the bus). Speaking of living room sets, one would think, that this being nicaragua and all, they probably don´t have them here. Considering this is the 2nd poorest country in the western hemisphere, but that thought would be incorrect. Because while 90% of the population can´t afford it, some can. So they do have them here, and just like in the states, they have furniture and electronic stores, that you can pay monthly on the things you buy (with an extremely high interest rate). But i have come across alot of people that have refrigerators, some have microwaves, blendors (liquadores) are all the rage (anything cold is good in chinandega) some people have toasters, and even rice makers (they prefer to fry their rice tho). There are degrees of wealth here just like in the states, its just that there are even fewer people in the middle class. And the middle class here is not equivalent to that in the states. I hope to be able to expand more on this with time i´m sure i will. I guess the point i am trying to make is that just because it´s nicaragua, doesn´t mean i can´t get just about everything i could in the states, you just have to pay a hell of a price for it, and more than likely go to managua to buy it. But that doesn´t mean that even 15% of the people can afford to buy it. Nor make the trip to Managua. Sadly enough, I have seen more parts of this country than a large majority of the people that I have met. Including the families i have lived with.

Sorry to end so abruptly, next post will be more cohesive, and i´ll try to have pictures. Thanks, mom, for the rechargable batteries!
Well i hope everyone back home is having a wonderful, bacteria-free christmas and new years.