My last blog (Kenya) was written pre-kids. I will warn you that this one will undoubtedly be filled with musings on how kids absorb culture and language. I will also warn you that although I will strive to be succinct, my style of writing is a bit on the stream-of-consciousness end of the continuum. I am writing from Nicaragua. This is where I live right now.
If you had no idea I was in Nicaragua I will recap how we got here. Stuart and I have been wanting to, and talking about, living abroad for a few years. I have missed living abroad and I was thrilled when Stuart wanted to do it as well. So we finally stopped talking about it and did it. We rented out our place, sold or gave away 80% of our stuff and bought one-way tickets to Nicaragua. Why Nicaragua? We visited here in 2011 and liked it, we knew we just needed to start somewhere and this is the place a great opportunity came up.
But then, the day before we flew to Nicaragua, that great opportunity fell through. So for those of you we had talked to before, we are not managing a hotel in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. We are however, staying in a great hotel in San Juan del Sur free for the week because the owner felt bad about ditching us for someone already in the area. Stuart and I took turns being upset about it. But what can you do? So we are working on a new plan. A new plan for where we might work. Where we might live. And so on. Luckily, the kids stayed with my parents for a week in Florida and are set to arrive with my parents on Friday, so we still have time to straighten things out. And there seem to be lots of possibilities for what we might do.
Oh, and we won Trivia night and Big Wave Dave's last night. And won a bottle of the local rum.
