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Today was another eventful day in Matagalpa.
It began with pancakes, la pina deliciosa, and juice. This morning was quite an experience. The baseboard that we started to paint yesterday still had to be painted so we decided to try and mix some colors together to make an emerald green to match the green tile floor in the room. Well, disaster struck soon after this task commenced. We put like a gallon and a half of paint in this plastic container and mixed in other colors to try to get it to what we wanted. The problem here was that the paint was oil based. No problem right? ha. The little fact we didn't realize was the oil based paint would devour the plastic container and flood the floor with a nasty teal color. Sweet deal. WHOOPS! We had everyone running everywhere throwing rages and dunking them in water and sending them to the Jefe (Fide at this point). Whew, just another day in the life of a intern at Puentes de Esperanza. We all were laughing and having so much fun. Another thing about oil based paint is that it doesn't come off skin with water, you have to use diluyente...best part of this story is that we were out of el diluyente. As I type this now, my hands look like smurf hands because I couldn't get all the paint off. Hate to say it mom but the Magic Jack is speckled with teal paint. At least it still works though right? Fide and I got together and mixed up some new paint to a really pretty emerald green and off we went to painting.
Lunch was SO GOOD.
Fide cooked pasta with red and green peppers, sour cream, and lots of spices. I definitely ate my fill! And we ate platanos fritos to go with it...those were the equivalent to italian bread rolls for the meal. Loved them.
We sat at the table awhile trying to remember how to sing some old songs from choir and had the computer on waiting impatiently for our dear Rachel to get on Skype...sad day. Ha, we love you Rae baby :) and miss you a lot! and LUCY!
After lunch we went to work cleaning the rooms and moving beds around.
Then this guy from the states who's a professor of Criminal Justice was in town so he came by with Don Omarcito. We sat out on the patio for a good while talking with him about all his adventures. He's lived all around the world and is just traveling through different cities and working on lots of different things.
Fide made us grilled cheese again for dinner since we talked for so long with the professor. But they were excellent. She is such a good cook. I am so grateful for her and everyone here because they have made us feel so welcomed.
We talked after dinner with Fide and Don Omar about Spanish and English and the differences. It's awesome to be learning so much without being in a classroom. It's been less than a week and I feel like we are a family here.
Now Spenc and I just ate some Nica Oreos and we're just kickin' it in the kitchen.
I hope y'all are enjoying the Blog. We have so much fun at the end of the day writing out and remembering all the crazy things that went down.
We definitely feel y'alls prayers too. It's amazing how much joy the Lord has poured onto us and how much affirmation we feel about being here in Matagalpa.
Love you all so much!
Con Carino,
M.