Well...I´m here. I left on May 4th @ 2:40pm and arrived here in Nicaragua around 9pm (11pm in Canada). We then drove to Esteli, another 2 hour bus ride from Managua. My host family, or mother, is very nice and tries so hard to help me with my extremely poor Spanish. It´s been raining since I got here and I just found out that we´ve arrived during the rainy season so it seems like its going to be raining every day. I´ve already had a small breakdown - the language barrier is unbelievably difficult and it all became so overwhelming that I cracked. I managed to buy a cellphone with the help of my host mom, and tearfully called home to say I´m alive. I´m very slowly (very slowly) learning my way around and I know its going to take a lot of time but for the mean time I´m still a little fragile and often on the verge of another breakdown. But I know it will get better and though 13 weeks seems like a long time now, I know it will fly by.
Tomorrow, we begin our Spanish lessons at Los Pipitos and its quite a journey in itself to get there...I have to figure out how to work the ¨bus system´which is basically just a school bus that takes 3 cordobas as fare. Its..interesting at the moment.

For now, just know that I am alive and doing OK. Slowly adjusting to everything so yes, this post may seem slightly complainy. But hopefully it will get better.

Hasta luego per ahora!