Waiting for friends in Leon, who were inside the Sandinistan revolutionary museum, one of the volunteers gave me a quick street lesson of salsa. I then dozed off on the steps of the revolutionary museum, riddled with bullet holes in some spots, to…
I taught English the other night and the activity I gave them is to choose to create a horror or action or Mexican soap opera ... or Fast and the Furious and act it out. And then I gave them stuff like a machete and me and a cat and having to sing…
Got up at 5 a.m. to bike to a farm with my friends Frankling and Jose Luuis, who works on a milk farm, to drink fresh milk and test my hand at milking a cow. Finally managed to milk a steady stream from a patient one, until Jose Luis (otherwise kn…
5 a.m. The ladies start making their tortillas across the street, slapping the mushed corn quickly into rounded flat patties and toasting them on a fire. Whap. Whap. Every day. All day. The first night I wondered if Marta was making some next to…
Pilgrims from all over come to our tiny town of El Sauce during January, to celebrate the festival of the black christ. Later, replicas of the statue and other Christs are used in processions, including this week for Semana Santa (Holy Week). Eve…
Easter procession from the Santuario Nacional de Nuestro Senor de Esquipulas. Many processions this week, and the weekend, leading up to the entire Semana Santa, or holy week.…
