A Nicaraguan weekend

This weekend I was able to experience another side of Nicaragua as a typical Nicaraguan. On Sat. I was planning on trying to sleep past 6:30 before the sweat hit me. I had the fan on full blast and was laying in bed when i heard "Kevin, nesicitamos las llaves?" The two guys that work here needed the tractor keys about 7:30 because the guy we asked to come on wed. to get down about 60 trees showed up today.

Contrary to plans I put my boots on for a day of work. We cut down about 60 trees ranging from 20-60 feet into 6 foot sections and loaded them on a trailer all day in what seemed like the hottest day I have experienced. Once again I got outworked by the locals. The bottom post of the big trees weighed between 250-300 lbs and after lunch i was not able to pick them up unlike the Nicaraguans.

After work they invited me to watch the big fight, a nican vs. an american. I was super excited to get to to just hang out with all nicans for the first time. Julio came to the orphanage and I drove over to Jamie's house. Clearly they don't have cars but i was not going to walk 4 or 5 KM in the middle of a nican neighborhood at 11 or 12 at night after the fight.

Jamie lived in a two room house with dirt floors with two lights and two outlets. I think it is a life long proces to fix up your house because his parents lived in a very nice ceramic tiled floor house right next door. It is crazy to think that i have more invested in this laptop i am typing on then he does his house. They know everything that I have and even though i am a little ashamed to know that fact, but I pray that my wealth doesn't distance me from them.

I promise more pictures now that i can load them from my camera.