Somoto, Nicaragua -April 24, 2003
Have done a lot since I last wrote, which is why I hadn't written since... About a month ago I spent an overnight in Cacauli, one of the rural communities in which I work. The family's house where I was staying was right beside a famous hilltop where the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared a few years ago. It is really famous & thousands of people from all over Latin America come once a month to worship at the shrine. Shared a room with 2 roosting chickens & saw a frog the size of a basketball in the latrine at night.
The following weekend I swam in a mirky swimming pool outside my town and was goosed 4 times in the 15 mins that I withstood before leaving. Also attended a loud drunken disco party by the central park, complete with staticy speakers the size of grown men.
Two weeks ago I attended a Central American Agricultural Conference in Esteli(Nicaragua) with experiments from all over Latin America. The presentations were superb and covered a range of information from bio-fuel, CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement which is currently being considered-yuck!), organic agriculture, solar driers & ecotourism. The meals & cultural presentations including dirty jokes!) were great, the most interesting part was when some Nica girls pulled out a guitar and started singing witty Sandinista songs(one was directed at 'Tio(Uncle) Sam').
The next night I went to a fabulous outdoor concert in Managua featuring Nueva Compania, Los Mokuanes & Eddie Herrera(he is from the Dominican Republic & is Elvis-like in his popularity with the girls as well as his insane pelvic thrusting). It was really ritzy & attended by all of the rich Nicaraguans.
From there I took a plane to the Corn Islands in the Carribean(part of Nicaragua). The people there are of either African or mixed African/ Spanish descent & many spoke West Indian English. Little Corn is the nicest tropical island I have ever visited. It is covered in beautiful jungle & palm trees and when we got hungry we would just pick starfruit, almondfruit, & mangos or crack open a coconut with a machete.Went snorkeling everyday from the secluded white sand beach outside our cabana and saw a shark, a school of neon tetras and numerous parrot fish among others. The most disturbing occurrence there was when a 2 yr old boy emerged from his house playing with a loaded gun. Scary.
I then journeyed to Isla Ometepe, in the middle of enormous Lake Nicaragua. There I stayed at an organic fair trade coffee plantation & met some awesome backpackers. Climbed a volcano & saw Howler monkeys, hummingbirds & enormous blue butterflies. Also stepped in a huge pile of monkey dung. The following day we had a blast hitchhiking around the island in the back of huge diesel trucks with broken wood plank floors.
Visited the Biological Research Station and hiked to some extremely beautiful waterfalls. Saw a huge cream-colored boa on the walk home. Ometepe Island is fabulous, especially since it lacks any big development. My favorite part was seeing cows and horses frolicking in the waves on the beaches & watching the red sun set behind one of the two volcanoes that are on the island.
Now I'm back to work & about to go for a guitar lesson.
Hasta luego,
Alix
The following weekend I swam in a mirky swimming pool outside my town and was goosed 4 times in the 15 mins that I withstood before leaving. Also attended a loud drunken disco party by the central park, complete with staticy speakers the size of grown men.
Two weeks ago I attended a Central American Agricultural Conference in Esteli(Nicaragua) with experiments from all over Latin America. The presentations were superb and covered a range of information from bio-fuel, CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement which is currently being considered-yuck!), organic agriculture, solar driers & ecotourism. The meals & cultural presentations including dirty jokes!) were great, the most interesting part was when some Nica girls pulled out a guitar and started singing witty Sandinista songs(one was directed at 'Tio(Uncle) Sam').
The next night I went to a fabulous outdoor concert in Managua featuring Nueva Compania, Los Mokuanes & Eddie Herrera(he is from the Dominican Republic & is Elvis-like in his popularity with the girls as well as his insane pelvic thrusting). It was really ritzy & attended by all of the rich Nicaraguans.
From there I took a plane to the Corn Islands in the Carribean(part of Nicaragua). The people there are of either African or mixed African/ Spanish descent & many spoke West Indian English. Little Corn is the nicest tropical island I have ever visited. It is covered in beautiful jungle & palm trees and when we got hungry we would just pick starfruit, almondfruit, & mangos or crack open a coconut with a machete.Went snorkeling everyday from the secluded white sand beach outside our cabana and saw a shark, a school of neon tetras and numerous parrot fish among others. The most disturbing occurrence there was when a 2 yr old boy emerged from his house playing with a loaded gun. Scary.
I then journeyed to Isla Ometepe, in the middle of enormous Lake Nicaragua. There I stayed at an organic fair trade coffee plantation & met some awesome backpackers. Climbed a volcano & saw Howler monkeys, hummingbirds & enormous blue butterflies. Also stepped in a huge pile of monkey dung. The following day we had a blast hitchhiking around the island in the back of huge diesel trucks with broken wood plank floors.
Visited the Biological Research Station and hiked to some extremely beautiful waterfalls. Saw a huge cream-colored boa on the walk home. Ometepe Island is fabulous, especially since it lacks any big development. My favorite part was seeing cows and horses frolicking in the waves on the beaches & watching the red sun set behind one of the two volcanoes that are on the island.
Now I'm back to work & about to go for a guitar lesson.
Hasta luego,
Alix
posted by Alix at 9:27 PM
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