Day 2

Unfortunately it appears again that the Internet connection is too slow to upload any videos, which is a bummer because I have a bunch of stuff to share.

This morning I woke up around 5am to sound of dozens of animals. Certainly not something you would expect in a city with over a million people. Around 6am you start hearing people yelling outside: Eggs!!, Bread!!, Oranges!!... Nicaragua confirms my believe that in Latin America you can pretty much buy whatever you need just by going to a street corner and waiting long enough.

Interestingly basketball and baseball are perhaps more popular here then soccer, which rules mostly every other Latin American nation. The center of the community I am living in is a basketball and soccer court that was filled with children playing on it all last night. Although few were playing basketball but the majority were climbing the basketball/soccer goals :)

Dinner yesterday was amazing! Simple, but so tasty. Rice beans and beef with tortillas and fresh squeezed mandarin juice!

My plan today is go back to the agency I visited yesterday to see it a bit more in action. At noon I have a meeting with the director of Witnesses for Peace, another agency I am hoping to get a tour of. They are a really interesting advocacy group that works to end economic and military violence. Check out their website: http://www.witnessforpeace.org/article.php?id=476

After this I’ll be walking to another agency: ProNica. To hopefully meet my contact, Lillian, there for another tour and explanation of the agency. Take a look at there website at: pronica.org.