My first Nicaraguan 4th of July has come and gone, along with my first dia del maestros, and semester break. All in all the past two weeks have been wonderful and full of great memories with my friends, both nica and american.
Dia del maestros was unlike anything I could have expected before coming to Nicaragua and exactly what I imagined since I´ve arrived. After living here for 10 months I knew enough that I should put on my best outfit, do up my make-up and rock some heels. So I got all decked out in my nica finest, met my counterpart and off we went! The party was being held by the alcaldia (mayors office) of LPC at one of our town´s discos. It started off with the normal actos, speechs, dances, , more speeches and some more dances, including a really funny one where the guy dressed up like a girl and the girl like a guy. Ok. it was way more funny if you are watching it then I can describe. But trust me, it was a good laugh. Following the acto, was lunch and then the dancing began. Of course being the token gringa EVERYONE wanted to dance with me and I´ve loved to learn here that no matter how ridiculous I look everyone still thinks I´m a good dancer. :) So we danced and then the rum came out and my teachers took on the mission of insuring I always had a full class of rum and coke. Have I mentioned how much I love this country? By the time I left at 5 (the event had started at 10), I was a little bit drunk, decently blistered and convinced I would move permently to Nicaragua to be a teacher, just for this party every year.
Happily, though the partying wasn´t over for me as the past weekend was the 4th of July! And we took it into our hands to show off the 2nd goal of Peace Corps and throw a good old 4th of July party Nicaraguan style! Nagarote (the town next to mine) was having a hipica (horse parade) and thus this became the site for our celebrations. So I bought streamers in red and blue (couldn´t find white..but then one of the neighborhood kids suggested we use toilet paper...haha) and we put up a huge fleece american flag blanket. I made deviled eggs, Rachel brought some chips and made french onion dip and Chris went all kinds of culinary and made soy burger and banana cream pie. So good. Bascially, we ate a ton of food, drank some beer and rum, watched the horse parade and did this all in the dark, since the lights went out! Then like true Nica-Americans we (well I) donned our (my) red, white and blue and went to the party in the towns cancha. So maybe we didn´t have any fireworks in Nicaragua, but heck we did have a mariachi band and that was almost as good.
So partying it up. I can´t complain at all and after a week of no school and a nice little vacation, I´m ready to get back to life. I was so excited to return back to LPC on Friday and even more exctied when I started playing kickball with my neighbors. It was an absolute blast even though I got placed on the boys team because they were short players and they were some of the worst kickball players EVER. But it was still really fun and the boys seemed to love me so much that when I asked them to pick up there trash, take it home and put it in the basurero (trash can) they did it with a smile. WIN!
And this week is going to be another great one! I can feel it! :)
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