DIVERTIR!!!!!!!

ABOVE: Stealing sea shells from the beach. I have to decorate my big empty house with something!!!!!
ABOVE & BELOW: LAS PENITAS: On the beach for the weekend with the girls!

LOVING THE SUN :) :) :)
ABOVE: Amanda is taught how to dance by a rasta man... hahaha... Who took this picture?

ABOVE: Edzit's favourite. A family of pigs.... lol, she hates pigs - really! Remind me not to swim there!
ABOVE: Chilling on the hammock on the beach. Like I said, life is rough!
ABOVE: SURF SHOP!!!!! YEAH!
ABOVE: THE BEACH! A LA PLAYA EN ESPANOL!
ABOVE: Well, these guys had a good night... of sleep! That's how good the parties are!!!!!!
ABOVE: Isabelle, Idzit and Yuri (our friend from France who I have to TRY and speak Spanish too) get confused and are head banging to Salsa music. What's going on here?????

Time flies. I've officially been here for a month today. I can't believe it. It goes by way to quickly. I guess it's true... time flies when you are having fun. And fun is definetely what I am having!

NEWS: Last Wednesday I moved into my own house. It's so good to be there. I miss the family and Adrianas cooking but am loving the privacy and freedom to come and go as I please without catering to everyone else's schedule.

MORE NEWS!: I am officially the owner of a brand new dirtbike. I got it last Wednesday and we are already in love with it. I park it in my living room (I have a big house, a really big house) and every morning when I wake up I wonder if it's really sitting there and ask myself if I am completely out of my mind... BUT, you only live once and this thing just felt like the right thing to do. I love being able to cruise around Esteli on it and go where I please. After all, you can't get lost in a place you don't know! I don't have a picture of me on it yet but I promise, it's coming soon!

I'm too busy right now to give a big update but instead I'll tell you two few funny slip-ups I've made in trying to learn Spanish. Of course I've made many more than this; some that I'm aware of and I'm sure many many that I'm not. When I arrived and was still living with the family (I moved into my own place on Wednesday of last week) I was introduced to all the other relatives. Adriana always introduced a lot of the girls as Sovrina. So, I called them Sovrina. I mean what else would I call them? And plus, Adriana named her daughter after her, and her son after her husband. I guessed that this was just normal. Until a week ago in Spanish school when the word Sovrina popped up in my grammar charts. It means niece. So, I'd been spending 3 weeks on the streets shouting "hello sovrina" to every one of them. Check out a past blog of a picture of me and another girl at the disco. I even wrote her name as Sovrina. I called her Sovrina all night, noone ever corrected me. Anyways, now I know there names. The other slip up I did was put my hand up in Spanish class and ask if I could have a clean 'vacas'. Now, I mean to ask for a glass which is 'vaso'. The best part is that vacas means cow. So, I said "please, can I have clean cow". We had to pause the lesson until the others could catch their breath. I suppose I could say worse things. Let's hope I haven't!

ABOVE: On the coast for the weekend with the girls!!!! I need a couple drinks before I attempt to salsa dance!!!!
ABOVE: Funny guys! Saw me taking pictures so ran in front to show their muscles!
ABOVE: Our lovely bartenders!
ABOVE: Our pad for the weekend on the coast!
ABOVE: The view from our pad!

ABOVE AND BELOW: CUTIES!!! In Leon on Independance Day - Sept 14, 07.
ADORABLE!!!
ABOVE: 2 girls that were in the parade on Independence Day in Leon.
ABOVE: A church in Leon. This city is famous for its churches.
ABOVE: On the chicken bus from Leon to the coast. The bus was packed so I got a friend on my knee for the hour ride there. It was SOOOO hot, hence my make up sweating down my face!! What a cute kid! :)

ABOVE: Arrival in Leon, Nicaragua. We stopped here for the day on Friday for Independance day before heading more west to the beach for the rest of the weekend. This is a picture of an old Church. REALLLLLY OLD!
ABOVE: NICA MONEY!!!! One dollar is about 18 CORDOBAS, you do the math!
ABOVE: THE PARADE... THAT WE COULDN'T SEE!!!!!
ABOVE: KIDS PLAYING ON THE LION IN FRONT OF THE OLD CHURCH.
ABOVE: WELL, WE SAW A LITTLE OF IT I GUESS!!!!



THE END! HOPE YOU ENJOY!!!!!!!