weekend

this weekend, even a national holiday weekend, is creaping by. without school and not knowing a soul in the city, i have nothing to do. not know the language hurts too since i can´t really just hop a bus and start exploring. BUT, monday will be much better since i´ll get to start working in the afternoons after school, so i won´t have so much down time.

in other news, i ate the following interesting things in the last 2 days:
Thurs.....una empenada de queso...not really any cheese in it, but yummy cinnamin flavor. Para la cena.....plain boiled potatoes with shredded cabbage with lemon on top, and a couple chicharrones. You folks in New Mexico know what those are....well, we got em here too.
Friday.....hotdog bun and butter for breakfast. dinner......it was either chopped up hot dog or bologna, i´m not sure which since i haven´t had either for probably 15 years, fried with tomatoes and served with a tortilla (a very good tortilla). Also, i was introduced to pinol: water and corn as a drink, and also, pinolino: pinol with cacao. not bad.

Yesterday was the Nicaraguan Independance day, from Spain, and since it was a national holiday everyone got to have electricity for the whole day (interesting, don´t you think?). so, we watched to big parade at the city´s stadium on the television. a little different than parades at home, but really interesting. more of a precession, lots of fun drumming and dancing.