The end is in sight!
Hey everyone!
I don't know who follows this or what not but anyways...here's for anyone who does check it :-D
This past week has been a rough one...but I'll get to that in a minute....First let me tell you about my two weeks in Managua....they were GREAT! Leah, Sonya, and I spent two weeks doing our ESL (English as a second language...or here English as a foreign language) practicum. We spent four days of the week in classrooms of varying ages. Though I must say that my classes were a lot more hectic than a lot of classes in the states, I really enjoyed the experience! In fact so much so that Wednesdays when we don't have classes here in Leon, Leah and I go back to Managua to visit our classrooms :-)
Us three girls lived in this house called Quinta Shalom. It's sorta like a hostel but more like a guest house. We all shared a room....it was like a girls slumber party EVERY night lol.....we had some great convos...but I won't go there hahahaha! And the weather is so much better in Managua! It's a lot cooler. We enjoyed our new found freedom (after being away at college it is a little hard to be living with host families and having to answer to people again)....and I think we made more friends in those two weeks than in all of our time here in Leon....We wanted to stay sooo bad! But alas...we had to come back to life.....and once again the classes and daily answering to our families started over.
So now to this week. Monday morning I woke up with a pretty bad stomach ache...I thought it was just something wrong I had eaten the day before....but it lasted way longer than that. I was down flat in bed for two days....nauseous...dizzy and unable to eat.....I didn't sleep well and couldn't find a way to lay that didn't bother my stomach....it was pretty rough....and it made me miss home even more.....nothing like Mom when you're feeling sick...and my host mom here just doesn't cut it....as much as I love her.......
The count is down to one month and 8 days!!! WOOOHOOO.....I think everyday I get a little more homesick...I love it here but I'm just ready to be back...I miss my family and Jon so much...My family here loves me dearly but I miss being surrounded by the family and friends back home who love me just as I am.....I'm not a connection for them...they aren't with me because I can offer them anything....They're with me just because I'm me.....back home I don't get jeered at on the street...I don't get whistled at or called like a dog.....and I don't stick out like a sore thumb.....I know that is part of the culture here and it comes with the territory...but after a while it really builds up and you wish you could just be looked at for the person you are....
*sigh* anyways.....The week is almost over and boy am I ready for it to be.....next week comes Costa Rica and I'm soooooo excited!!! I'll get to be there Thurs-Sun.....that shall be fun.......I'll write more on that after I get back....we're going in order to experience/see how immigration works between the two countries and observe the relationship between people in Costa Rica and people in Nicaragua.
Well...I told my host mom that I'd be back around 6 30-7 so I guess I should get going...I'm pretty tired anyway....that illness really sucked my engery...plus I woke up early today to go to Managua and visit my classes :-D....
I hope that life is finding you all well! I miss you dearly and am counting down the days until I return home! LOVE YOU!!!
<3 Sarah
I don't know who follows this or what not but anyways...here's for anyone who does check it :-D
This past week has been a rough one...but I'll get to that in a minute....First let me tell you about my two weeks in Managua....they were GREAT! Leah, Sonya, and I spent two weeks doing our ESL (English as a second language...or here English as a foreign language) practicum. We spent four days of the week in classrooms of varying ages. Though I must say that my classes were a lot more hectic than a lot of classes in the states, I really enjoyed the experience! In fact so much so that Wednesdays when we don't have classes here in Leon, Leah and I go back to Managua to visit our classrooms :-)
Us three girls lived in this house called Quinta Shalom. It's sorta like a hostel but more like a guest house. We all shared a room....it was like a girls slumber party EVERY night lol.....we had some great convos...but I won't go there hahahaha! And the weather is so much better in Managua! It's a lot cooler. We enjoyed our new found freedom (after being away at college it is a little hard to be living with host families and having to answer to people again)....and I think we made more friends in those two weeks than in all of our time here in Leon....We wanted to stay sooo bad! But alas...we had to come back to life.....and once again the classes and daily answering to our families started over.
So now to this week. Monday morning I woke up with a pretty bad stomach ache...I thought it was just something wrong I had eaten the day before....but it lasted way longer than that. I was down flat in bed for two days....nauseous...dizzy and unable to eat.....I didn't sleep well and couldn't find a way to lay that didn't bother my stomach....it was pretty rough....and it made me miss home even more.....nothing like Mom when you're feeling sick...and my host mom here just doesn't cut it....as much as I love her.......
The count is down to one month and 8 days!!! WOOOHOOO.....I think everyday I get a little more homesick...I love it here but I'm just ready to be back...I miss my family and Jon so much...My family here loves me dearly but I miss being surrounded by the family and friends back home who love me just as I am.....I'm not a connection for them...they aren't with me because I can offer them anything....They're with me just because I'm me.....back home I don't get jeered at on the street...I don't get whistled at or called like a dog.....and I don't stick out like a sore thumb.....I know that is part of the culture here and it comes with the territory...but after a while it really builds up and you wish you could just be looked at for the person you are....
*sigh* anyways.....The week is almost over and boy am I ready for it to be.....next week comes Costa Rica and I'm soooooo excited!!! I'll get to be there Thurs-Sun.....that shall be fun.......I'll write more on that after I get back....we're going in order to experience/see how immigration works between the two countries and observe the relationship between people in Costa Rica and people in Nicaragua.
Well...I told my host mom that I'd be back around 6 30-7 so I guess I should get going...I'm pretty tired anyway....that illness really sucked my engery...plus I woke up early today to go to Managua and visit my classes :-D....
I hope that life is finding you all well! I miss you dearly and am counting down the days until I return home! LOVE YOU!!!
<3 Sarah
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