Piñatas and spanish lessons

!Hola Amigos!

Sin agua
sin luz...
esta Granada!!!

Its been a while since my last update but my intergration is doing perfecly well I think. Everything here take much longer time and nobody seems to hurry. And I really like that way of live, I hope you guys take that as an excuse...

Tomorrow is my last day at La Casa Comunal in La Prussia and next week I´ll start in a real school. I´ll miss my kids in La Prusia, they are all a little bit crazy and great! They have so less chances to be a kid. Like one 6 year old girl, she cooks, cleans, take care of her siblings and some times she works at the market. 6 years!
Last week, we had a kind of party with a piñata because two people were leaving. All the kids brought their friends, brothers and sister because they knew that there would be a lot of candy and a piñata. The flour was covered with candy after the piñata opened and in two seconds, everything was gone..

I´m taking spanish classes now for three hours a week and with tons of homework to do. I´m really not used to homework anymore and I still got my montessorie mentality of saving everything for the very last moment. But I´m really trying and my Spanish is getting better with the day. (although everybody tells me that I speak Spanish with a France accent..)
My spanish school is in a huge building where they also have meeting and dancing lessons. Last time when I had class was there a meeting from a political workers group. The president of Nicaragua just reintroduced the servingplight for boys and thats a weak point for the nica´s because in the past wars a lot of boys died while serving. This group wants a new war beacause the economie is very low now and the salarys are getting lower with the month, a lot of people here are starving and every year there are less tourisme because of the unstable economie and the bad relationship with the States. It was pretty scary because they where all yelling and screaming and super motivated to reach there goal. This group is now to small to be a real danger but teacher told me that they from a danger because they are growing.

I was in Diriamba two weekends ago , a small city, for an huge festival. The whole city was dressed up and everywhere were performances of traditional dances with great costumes. There was a huge parade in which they carried the three saints for miles! There was firework everywhere the whole night long and thousends of people who acted like they never had seen somebody blond in their whole life..
I was with my roommate Laura and she got familie there where we spend the night.

I´ve got 4 days off next weekend and I go with a bunch of people to the beach to surf! (I know my life is pretty hard...)

adios y muchos besos!!

Nienke