I have been in Nicaragua for well over a month now. The vacation feeling has worn off and I am starting to feel homesick. Sometimes I just want a good confidant. Now, I am becoming closer to two of the students in the program and am getting more confident with my Spanish. It really is amazing how much my Spanish has improved over the last 6 weeks or so.
I cannot decide if I like Managua or not. I have realized that I just do not enjoy big cities. Denver is not a big city, especially in comparison with the cities of the East Coast of the US. I remember when I lived in Dolores, CO this time last year. Dolores only has 800 people and many of this 800 do not live in the town itself. My time in Nicaragua is part understanding the culture of another country and gaining a better understanding of urban culture as well. I have studied migration to cities in class but am seeing it in a different way in Nicaragua.
I am trying to find a routine and time to do things to relax and destress. It is hard sometimes to balance life when we have a lot of work to do (essays, presenations, readings, and preparing to lead class discussions). This week I plan on cooking and doing more yoga. I also just got a hair wrap done today--it is brown with a mix of blue, green, and yellow. Sometimes you have to do little things for yourself to find...INTERNAL PEACE. (Today, in class we talked about a culture of peace and the necessity of internal peace in the field of conflict resolution.)
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