Granada is HOT!

Well Jeff and I have officially found the center of the sun. It's named Granada, Nicaragua and it is always blazing hot. Not to mention that not having water is a regular occurance, so though you're sweating and dirty, doesn't mean you get to shower! Though I should mention that I am totally a spoiled brat and we almost always have water at my house...even though some of the other part of the pueblo doesn't....I do! Haven't had to take a bucket shower yet, though I'm pretty sure thats all Jeff has taken expect for here, my house, and maybe twice at his house. See what I mean? Spoiled rotten.

Also interesting are the rolling blackouts that occur here because Spain owns the electric company or something....and I guess I don't know if they're rolling because they seem to go out at the same town all over the country, but once again, I'm not really sure about that either. I guess the times that there will not be luz {which everyone refers to electricity, simply...light} are published in the newspaper somewhere but I have yet to see this or know anyone that knows when the luz will be out. But when the luz comes back on at night when its dark, its like the greatest thing thats ever happaned and people scream and cheer they are so excited. It's a mini party every night.

Well as stated above, we are in Granada visiting another married couple who are actually volunteers and have been living here for roughly 3 months now. It is exciting getting to visit them because where they are isn't that far away from us obtaining...they have just recently gotten out of training, well 3 months, and I can't wait to be there! They work in schools so we got to observe those and they are very different from each other, the United States, you name it. We had some interesting experiences. At one of the schools we went to observe, the class that was supposed to be taught by the volunteer we were with got cancelled because the students in 4th year(about 11th grade)went on strike. So we didnt get to see any teaching at that school. But at another school that we went to with him we got to see one of the best behaved classes i have seen anywhere, US included. There were about 30 students in the class and they all were engaged and participating. Hopefully we get classes like that when we get our assignment! But Granada is amazing, just not much to do if you don't have money, and we are in that category. I don't really understand what people do here if they are backpacking and don't have much. However, that said, 20 bucks would go a really long way, we just don't really have that much money. Jeff and I are making about 15 dollars a week right now. Thats right, be jealous. Even AmeriCorps pays better than that! However, I guess we're not really doing this for the money. If we were, we would be in for a big surprise.

We are hoping to watch the Twins game tomorrow as the volunteers we are visiting have cable. We watched the Yankees v. Tigers game tonight once the luz came back on. But, we head back to our training pueblos tomorrow. We have free internet until tomorrow afternoon so now is your chance to write us and get a quick reply back! Hope to hear from everyone. Go Twins.