Buenos dias,

So i read my blog for the first time, (Im too lazy to reread what i write) and i realized its not that great. I cant use my computer to write thoughtful or funny material so i go to the cybers and quickly through soming on the world wide web. I get so frustrated in there and want to leave rapido so i apologize


any whoo, my town of Mastepe is begining the fiestas patronales today with bigtime parties in the streets, although at night its suposedly super scetchy. ohh well. and the peace corps told us that everyone will be looking at us so we cant do anything stupid, which as you all know i wouldn{t do anyway.

today, in the jewish religon is the sabbath, observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night. well for me not soo much, not because im anti'semetic, but because we had to do our 6th long day of work in a row for the peace corps by attending a conference.

this included us learning how to start and run our community micro'finance banks. pretty cool and interesting stuff if you ask me. Brievfly this includes us finding people to participate that will elect 4 members, president, box keeper, secretary and auditor. all members will put in a weekly, bi weekly or monthly allotment of money into this comunity bank. this capital will be used for the lending of micro loans to people in the comunity who will then have to pay back the loan, usually in a months time, with a set interest rate that they decide upon, usually 5 to 10%. after a year or 6 months of putting money into the bank and aquiring interest through loans, the money is liquidated and divided acordingly to the people that participated in the bank. The idea is to promote savings and fiscal responsabilty to people in a culture that are not accustomed to doing so. this process will comence again imediatly after the funds are dispersed. they restart this process so people can realize the potential of their savings, and not have it just sit in the box forever, also all 3 head members each get a key so the box with the money can{t be opened with out all 3 present.

on a side note, it rained so im not sweating as much. also im gettting a phone tuesday, ill put my number up so if anyof you feel like im worth 20 cents a minute you can all me.

I hope all is well over there, and p.s. can somebody f'ing stop the oil spill. im come on this is getting a bit rediculous. where are the nasa engineers when you need them.

Ohh and ill put up pics when I take some!
peace out suckas

Sweating Like a Chancho

Hello My friends,

So As I said or havn´t said, i live in a little town called Masatepe. Every day I wake up at around 6 in the AM sweating and completely greasy. I have a mosquito net over my bed finally so i don´t contract bonebreaker disease(Dangue Fever). I get up, read a little from my over 1500 pages of peace corps materials until about 7. I proceed to go to the kitchen, say hi to my mother Adilia and take a shower.

Hold on - first let me tell you how luck i am. My house has electricity all the time - I have water in the mornings and in the afternoons - I have my own room which is really nice and grande with my own bed and my own bathroom.

Anyway, after i take a shower, i eat either fruit, which is rediculously tasty - mangos the size of my face, melon and pinapple. Today i had fried eggs, and always drink strong coffee.

I then walk 15 min to the house of a girl in my group, which is where we have our classes. we do silly spanish lessons till noon. I then have to walk home 15 min for lunch - at this time Im Sweating Like a Chancho. When i get back from lunch, still sweating like a chancho, we do more class till 3. After class we walk around the comunity doing exersizes to practice our spanish.

I then go home do homewook and reading, talk with the familia and fall asleap by 10:30.

This is my life as an aspirante = Trainee. The whole time I am sweating Like a Chancho = Pig

How Is everyone doing? Email me at anderlitej@gmail.com.

Oh yea, so this weekend starts the Hipica, a festival that lasts for a long time, so im excited about that, and to see some other gringos that should be coming to town to celebrate. adios primos

7:00 AM run to get morongo

Hi All,

I can´t talk much because im in an internet cafe, but I moved to my small town in Masatepe, Nicaragua. Population 10,000. It is nice and pretty, I have a good host family, and we have had a good time. Last night, my family and i went to the house of my Tia, and her sister along with another volunteer who is living at her house came over. We drank flor de cana and cerveza. I was le tired so i went home at 10¨00 but it was fun none the less.

At 7 am this morning my father and brotehr hugo, who is about 6 foot 5 and 300 lbs went to some random ladies hose to get some treats for breakfast. these included pig skin fried, blood saucage and fried beaf. I got my self into this by saying i like the blood sausage last night to one of my primos.

I hope all is well. Ill call or write as often as possible.