Nicaragua, Day 1

So I have this goal to blog every day (because I didn't have room to bring my journal to Nicaragua).

I have a feeling it might be a little rough... especially if I'm this tired at the end of every day. It looks like that might be the case according to more experienced people I've talked to. But it will be a good kind of tired. A we-helped-a-hundred-and-fifty-people-get-their-dental-work-done-today kind of tired. I can handle that.

It's my first time being in another country (and I'm not counting Canada). Canada is totally cool and all. But we were speaking English. And I really could have been walking down the street in the good ol' U. S. of A.

But not Nicaragua my friends.

#1 - it is SUPER hot and humid. I love it (and the fact I'm sitting in an air conditioned hotel room doesn't hurt).

#2 - everything is in ESPANOL. I can talk to people in Spanish and they don't look at me weird. Okay, they do look at me weird because I'm a gringa, but it's nice to be the outsider.

#3 - it is poor. This is the sad part. Seriously... just driving down the street and looking in people's casas... they just don't have very much. And when we would stop at stoplights little kids--seriously like 5-8 years old--would come up to the windows asking for money. I've never seen anything like it in my life, and it breaks my heart! I want to just take all those kids home with me and love them and give them new shoes and braid their hair and sing them to sleep... you know? I feel like every little kid should have that.

Well, that is the update for today. I really spent most of the day on a plane and my bum hurt from sitting so much. Watching The Blind Side in Spanish was super entertaining though ("Beeg Mike").

ANnnnnd I don't have any photos. I couldn't find my camera before leaving, so I'm using my dad's. I've designated myself the trip photographer because I saw how many pictures he took last time (aka zero). There will be pictures... but they will be posted at a later date due to a lack of USB hook up.

Well, I'm tired and am going to bed.

Buenas Noches!

P.S. Here's a map of Nicaragua in case you were like me and don't know exactly where it is :)