Sola en Masaya...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, don´t know what Nicaragua is doing with my health, but it is not good! So, Lillian and Nora left Masaya on Tuesday for the beach. I think they are on their way to Costa Rica now. I was just resting a bit here in Masaya and tomorrow I will begin with my trip. First to Isla de Ometepe, an island in Lago Nicaragua, it´s supposed to be very beautifull. It consists of 2 volcanos joined together by an isthmus. I will go there with Shogo, a Japanese guy, housemate of Lillian! Really looking forward to it, relaxing a bit and get healthy!

Last weekend we went to Granada on Saturday. I was supposed to meet Ana, a girl I met at my first school in Antigua, there in a hostel, we took a boattour to the Isletas. A lot of little islands in Lago Nicaragua. On one of these little islands were monkeys living. At one moment a mothermonkey jump on board with her baby. We were just feeding her bananas, and suddenly she freaked out! Attacking some people on the boat and Nora and another girl actually got bitten by her!!! So we went to the hospital, got some shots for her and back to the hostel. There I met two other guys, Dave and Chuck, also from my first school, it was good to be all together again.

On Sunday Ana went with me to Masaya to see the last marimba dances. My brother Jose had to dance too, in his traditional Mexican outfit, he looked sooooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood in it!!! He danced in 29 houses that day. Yep, I was defenitely being the proud sister!!! Unfortunatly I didn´t see my uncle dancing, didn´t know where he was...

Lillian and I worked 5 days in the healthcentre, but there was a strike for 3 days, too bad! Anyway, it was a nice experience. The first and last day I was there (no strike) it was really full in the morning! Like totally chaos! On every door in the healthcentre it is written what section it is, like vaccinations, mother and child, chronic diseases etc. There in the healthcentre they give anticonceptives for free, but since it´s not really private (everybody can see what you are there for), the younger generation of girls are afraid to get it. The anticonceptives in the farmacies are expensive and guys here (machos) refuse to use a condom. Well, that explains the many young mothers I´ve seen here in the hospital!!!

Well, the next mail won´t be from Masaya, who knows where I will be then!

Adios Masaya!