We had a really nice weekend. Saturday was our 1 year engagement anniversary (but we didn´t realize it until yesterday)!! Saturday we went fishing with one of the families of our students. We waded in the water while 2 people dropped the fishing net from a hand carved wooden boat. They made a half circle with the net from two points on the shore, and then we pulled and pulled until the net was brought in. We only caught 6 fish, and the family was very upset because usually they catch at least 30 fish! They made us a delicious fish soup! This families home was a bit more substantive than many of the homes here, made of brick. We sat around and talked with the family while listening the Creedence Clearwater Revival from their Ipod. We had a good laugh about listening to CCR in Nicaragua! The family invited us to come back someday and stay at their home with them. We are planning on keeping in touch with our students and families here, and coming back to teach again.
Saturday night there was a big party in the village, and the high schoolers put on a beauty pagent. One of our students was the reigning pagent winner, and passed off the crown. We attempted to walk into the village for the party, but it was dark and started to rain which gave us an excuse to walk fastly back home, because we were really scared of the growling dogs following us! We met a really cool couple from the States that we have been spending a lot of time with the last couple days.
We are getting sad to leave our students, but we are ready to leave and start our trek home, with a 4 day beach vacation to start it off!
10 days and we will be HOME!