NICARAGUA
Hola! mi amigos
havent kept up lately, so thought Id bring you up to speed... reminded again today that all the stinging- biting things in Nicaragua are on the look out for ME, (guess it comes with the latest addition to my job description) I was attacked by fire ants....
dont know if Ive told you but Im now a "mum"... dont get too excited, I havent been away THAT long, Ive adopted an anteater!
(see-http://www.nps.gov/centralamerica/salvador/anteater.shtml ) we call him Tami, short for "Tamandua" the name of the species, (kind of like naming your kid Homo, short from Homo sapiens)... pretty crazy, hes a baby so he likes to hang out on my back... unfortunetly he has mites so after about a half hour cuddling as he snoozes the mites begin oh-so-helpfully to clean my skin too! yuk...
if you are easily grossed out or about to eat, skip this next bit: .... he's training me to find his food for him, we go out hiking on the property looking for ant nests... but the little fuss pot, only eats the grubs or the eggs (ie caviar) and only pf certain ants, which makes it difficult... Im sure you can see me digging in rotted logs and scratching through the grubs trying not to get bit, and the enraged soldier ants coming after me and this little foot long fur ball with a long possum tail... yipes
the sailing continues to be usually only on the weekend... the wind has been insane sometimes, like I probably wouldn't have chosen to have passengers along on that day... but they all hung on and we made it to the beach... the gusts, (known as rafagas in spanish) are fierce, funneling through the valleys off lake Nicaragua...
other than that not much new here... planning to go on canopy tour again tomorrow with the school careening on ziplines through the trees... this time I take photos and interview there guys... would like to do the other one nearby too, its more in a cloud forest near Mombacho volcano...
my spanish progresses but still not quite enough unless a person is purposely trying to comunicate with me... if its too fast I still cant understand... speaking in spanish continues to be an issue... I start with the verb and strt adding endings until they nod... A noche, nosotros camin...-aramos, -emos, -iamos, -amos... (last night,we walked)
take care, drop me a line when you can...
Laurel
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