Ryan and the Rama

1 week in the Rama and I already fell like I am home. My family is absolutely hilarious. I went to my school in Wapi on Tuesday which was every bit as long as I thought that it would be. It took me a total of 11 hours to get about 2 hours of work done. This mostly includes travel and waiting time.

On Thursday one of my best friends, Ryan Spiegel came into town from Granada, Nicaragua. He has been traveling up from Colombia and was able to spend a Few days in the Rama. Thursday night we relaxed, because I had to teach at 3 different schools on Friday. Friday, I went to all the rest of my schools to see what the teaching experience is going to be like. HOT!! I mean I was literally drenched in sweat at one of my schools, it was gross and I felt ashamed to be there so disgustingly wet from sweat.
Ryan came to my last school to see what a day in the life of Jeff will be like for the next 2 years.

Friday night was fun! The whole family, mom, cousin, aunt, uncle Ryan and I went to some reggae clubs to festejar Ryan´s arrival. We danced the night away, actually better than I thought I was capable of doing, until around 1:30 am. The next morning was rough, as we were to embark on a journey to the infamous Bluefields.

Bluefields is a city on the Atlantic Coast that is so isolated the only way in is a 2 hour boat ride down a river from El Rama. The people are of African decent, and speak primarily creole and English, as well as Spanish and other indigenous languages. I have a friend that got placed there as his Peace Corps site, so we were able to hang out with him as well. The city gave us a good time and great, cheap sea food, but it also gave me the reassurance that I was placed in the right site. Why? Well no offense Dino(my buddy there) but, the city is really ghetto and dangerous with way to many people begging for shit all the time. It got to the point where a guy would wait for 3 hours outside of a club for us to try and re-beg for money. Overall we had a good time but after 1 day I was ready to get out of there.

Sunday was my cousins birthday. We celebrated by eating really tasty ice cream that they sell here. I bought here a nice nepolitano cone, while I myself had the Strawberry. A delightful treat indeed. Anyhoo, Ryan left today, and I'm back at work sweating profusely all day long. Ohh and the Eskimo Ice cream shop nest to my house has an old BAMA football welcome matte. Roll Tide, I'm going to buy that for sure.

Hope all is well Everyone!, MOM send me 3 work out rubber bands, they sell them at sports authority. with all the ice cream that will be consumed I need to work out.

Love Jeff