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These are pictures from my Thanksgiving dinner, where I received delicious US style food. Including real pecan pie, since our host was from Georgia!! PC here has a really cool program where people can go to PC staff´s houses for Thanksgiving or we can go to an embassy family. And I was very fortunate to be invited to have dinner with a public relations person from the embassy.































I have a bunch of stuff to catch up on, since my last post I have been to the All Volunteer Conference in Managua, and moved to my site permanently.

In the work department, I have attended one parent meeting so far, and have a list of the 17 potential teachers I will work with, and my job for the next few months is to meet all of these people in their various villages. A number of them live on the side of the island that is extremely difficult to get to, and therefore, I will be learning the transportation system of the island rather intimately. On top of that, I am trying to find a house to move into at the end of my six weeks. Yesterday I found a huge house that has only a small family living in it, to the best that I could understand from the neighbors, and they want to rent out about half the house. It is basically right on the lake. I have not included any pictures, as I do not want to get my hopes up.

This very large toad and I had an encounter in my back yard the other night. I have included my toes and chinelas for size reference.
















I have also been served an entire tilapia for dinner,
















and given a lot of plantain to the baby ardilla (read squirrel) that fell out of the tree in our backyard.
















Here are also a couple of new pictures of the main street of Mérida.






























And some new pics of my room now that I´ve moved in. I am buying household stuff slowly, along and along, but I´ll get there eventually. My big addition this week is a table. I´m still borrowing a chair, but soon I´ll have a couple of my very own!!




















Here´s my dresser. Notice the cardboard covering my clothes to keep the tile roof gunk off of them.
















And finally, the new curtain covering my bed to prevent all the tile roof stuff, including rat poop, from falling on me while I sleep.
















Finally, I got an address. It´s in Moyogalpa, the port town two hours away, because there´s no mail on my side of the island. But, if I get a package, they´ll send a note on the bus telling me I need to come pick up my package! I love Nicaragua!

Denise Strickland
Apartado Postal 16
Moyogalpa
Isla de Ometepe
Nicaragua
Central America

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Anonymous said…
the sparkle of the New Balances drew my attention to the "pile-o-shoes". you see, i can even pick on you from 2000 miles away. miss you D.
December 4, 2007 at 11:08 PM
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