Yesterday while eating our two dollar lunch in the market, Justin and I witnessed a terrifying event. While we were eating our chicken and gallo pinto, we heard a horrifically loud squeal. Another american was eating in the same area and jumped up out of her seat exclaiming " I really hope that is the worlds loudest baby!"...unfortunately it wasn´t the worlds loudest baby, but the death shreik of a pig about three feet behind me. It sqealed again and we heard the pig blood draining into a bucket. Instantly I lost my appetite. Justin was unphased.
In other news, today while in our Spanish class, a parade came marching down the street. By parade I mean 14 Miss Nicaragua contestants, a band of 7 people playing random instruments and more police than I have seen in one place since being here. Tonight on the beach we are going to watch the competition. Today we watched as the Nicas set up the stage and speakers on the beach only inches above the increasing tide.
Also today we realized that one of the workers at the hotel we are staying at has been stealing money from the safe in our room. We estimate that over the course of our ten days here, he or she has taken close to $400. We told the couple who owns the hotel and they swiftly began brainstorming plans to catch the thief red handed. They confiscated our lock box and are taking it to the police to have it fingerprinted and to have all the employees interrogated. CSI NICARAGUA. We are trying our best to count this experience as a life lesson, but it´s been hard to ignore since $400 dollars could easily have sustained our travels down here for atleast a couple weeks. More news about this later.
hi tali i read your blog! an experienced traveler once told me to bring your own padlock to use on hotel room safes because of how often workers steal from them.
ReplyDeleteI hope the rest of your travels go well!
Eric