yes i am that stupid and those were some of the last words i said to Morgan before we left for Nicaragua – during the rainy season.
ah friends, so I've returned from Nicaragua and it was a delightful trip..i think my favourite part was when we were at the border and the driver man announced that they were not stopping in Granada (our destination –and the reason Morgan and I took the 6am bus) but God provided us a friend from Argentina who spoke some pretty mean spanglish (and was also conveniently good looking). So we get dropped off in another little town where we are supposed to take a public bus into Granada. However, the reason that the big bus wasn’t going to Granada was because there was a huge fiesta so obviously the public bus was jam packed..literally there was NO space…people were hanging off the back. So 
after waiting in the rain for 20ish minutes i decided that we should hitch hike with this random flat bed truck that was driving by…and found out I'm pretty good at hailing down trucks filled with Latin men and horses…who knew!?! So anywho we get into the back with 5 hombres, 3 horses, and a mountain of crap – haha literally! We’re driving along being pelted in the face with rain and horse spit when the one guy is like “blah blah blah” then about 2.3 seconds later i get hit in the face with a tree branch! HAHAHA – apparently “blah blah blah” translates to “DUCK!” – i did not get that memo but i did get a face full of leaves and branch! So we get into town and drive through the parade (we were their international float). God made what could’ve been a super sketchy situation into something totally wonderful and fun. We got into town unscathed found a super cheap hostel right away, got to experience one heck of a party and just enjoy the craziness that is Latin america. All in all good trip i was even able to talk to our Argentinian friend about Jesus and how he’s pretty prime.
Other highlights: …i fell in the street – actually fell, scraped my ankle and everything ..haha then Morgan realized that she was, as those shirts say, “with stupid”
… i saw a monkey… ran into a scary Jesus in a Snow White casket…
decided to play Russian roulette with my tummy by not only drinking the local water but by also eating lettuce (natures germ catcher) haha i lost…found a free chocolate tour with samples! (my host mom always teases me and tells me that i live in a crazy world because I'm always in search of free things- so i was VERY excited to tell her about this…we also found other free museums but they didn’t give us free chocolate, they just showed us art, and it was wasn’t edible so it’s barely worth mentioning…and a little a little street boy made me a flower out of a coconut leaf…
In other news tomorrow I'm going to a concert – well I'm going to the stadium and then I'm going to sit outside and listen to the concert…for FREE! I also cut my hair and during the girls’ game on Saturday almost wound up going to the hospital in an ambulance when one of our girls went down hard – but didn’t have to and am SUPER excited to report that while we were waiting for the ambulance it really appeared as though her ankle was broken so i did some serious praying and I'm so delighted to report that she has NO broken bones and just a little sprain! I saw her the other day and she’s doing great…she’s in a beauty class that we have i got to be her practice model – so if her soccer career doesn’t pan out she can do make up …after we were done i was informed that i was a girl, and a pretty one at that! How exciting!
"Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the Lord and enjoy safe pasture! Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart!
Psalm 37
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