gimme the dirt.
I've always hated showering. It's annoying. I don't want to take my clothes off, put them back on. When I'm sick, I stay as disgusting as I possibly can, til the sweat coats me like a filmy base layer, and it's finally time to dis…
Poppin' tags Nica style!
If you wondered where your hand-me-downs went, I just sifted through them in a second-hand American store in Managua, finding some pants after my SECOND pair of capris bit the dust in the inferno of Nicaragua in April. Found a pink bathrobe, a bro…
Black Christ procession
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…
Holy Week procession, El Sauce
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.…
daylight
We stayed out in the street until daybreak. At about 2 I wedged myself into Yaci's car and then finally laid on a mattress just inside the garage gate. I was in the house but technically only half! I let my legs dangle out so one step I was up…
Donde esta la agua?!
I am have been in El Sauce but the water and electricity has not! So I washed my hair for the first time in four days. But meh, the dust looked fine in it too. More body.…
Growing pains
First day in El Sauce, we rode up the mountain to Las Minitas and past to Cerro Colorado, for a meeting of the Fuente de Pino basket-making cooperative. These are the women who make the baskets out of pine needles that fall near their homes; simpl…
And in this space ...
This is the existing preschool-kindergarten that The Friends Project is helping the farmers replace with a one-room shoolhouse with a few windows, blackboard and supplies! Work starts Monday and I’ve brought the mascot for the kids to name when they…
