Well this is my town. It is as charming as it is secluded, although for the first couple of weeks there´s a British gal in my host family´s home. I guess she got there first, so its more her family than anyone elses. She´s really cool, though and so is my site-mate. We ended up back at our training sites after almost a week of being in-site and i felt like there was ready to move on. We still have to complete our youth group project which theoretically will be going to a local orphanage and at least spending some time with the kids. But I have not been compelled to work on it. As a matter of fact all I can think about is what I´m going to be doing in my site for the next two years. I know I shouldn´t rush this process but I can´t help myself... I´m excited!

I have another week and a half here and then we have our swearing in and I´m released into the wild. My site is spectacularly beautiful as you can all see from my video below. I met with a youth group I´ll be working with and afterwards they walked me up to a mountain just outside of town (with my extreme suggetion). They were really cool and really nice. My counterparts all seem very similar in this light, and because I am the first business volunteer in the site they are also really excited.

I will be teaching classes in the institute in town as well as to the youth group. I will also be teaching a refined and distilled form of the business class to a group of fifteen local coffee producers. My counterpart and I will be working closely to make sure they follow our business development models and become certified for broader exportation. As excited as I am, it can be upwards of an 8 hour commute from Managua, and 3 hours from the nearest supermarket. Hope you all enjoy this little nugget of Jinotega beauty.