So this week I moved out of the orphanage and into a house with one of the guys I work with, Julio. I did this because I really feel more than to be in Nicaragua for the kids, the Lord sent me here to reach the everyday people. I also moved out because I wanted to learn more Spanish.
So now in a given day I wake up at 5 at Juilio's house and eat breakfast and get dressed and go to work at the orphanage with Julio. We work until 3 or 4 and then we go home to his wife and kid. She serves us bread and coffee and we just watch some TV or talk until dinner at whatever time we want when she gets it for us. Then we study spanish and he studies english until we go to bed.
But I hit a new culture shock with the relationship of him and his wife. I knew that Latin American women were very much domesticated and did most of the house work. But Julio does not lift a finger for anything. If he wants some coffee, she gets it for him. It is hard to even have that conversation because it is clear that this is all he has ever known.
More stories from the house of Julio are sure to come.
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