More nicaragua

I´m in a list-y mood so...

-Jake comes in two weeks from tomorrow!!! Whohoo! I´m super excited and have already started planning his every second/meal/thought. The overall mindset I have planned for him is "sweeeeet, this is awesome".
-Work is still going well. Teaching is GREAT. I´ll be thanking myself for the next two months for switching my teaching style. I used to hate planning classes, because I found myself thinking "Well this will probably only take them about four minutes to do until they get bored" and "I wonder how many kids will leave the class when I try to teach THIS". Now I love planning classes. Because I can do it for each kid, it´s awesome, I can make everything tailored exactly to what they know and are learning. I also really love getting to talk to the kids one on one, it´s nice to feel like I am actually developing relationships with them. The other job is going great as well. I´m just finding out that it´s a much bigger organization than I thought. I looked them up online, after finding out they´re entirely funded on donations, and they have these SOS places all over the world! It´s amazing. I´m going to put the site here for people to check it out if they want. I feel pretty lucky that I just stumbled upon such a great place. I´ve worked with preschool age kids before but kids this young. It´s crazy how in a span of a few months they develop SO much. It´s also funny how temperment is so apparent already in kids. Rudi is the kid who smiles ALL the time and likes to play in his puddles of pee. Genesis is only one of two that can walk in the bunch and she´s content to entertain herself. Recently she started calling me "momma" though which is sort of funny, and she just likes to sit in my lap and observe the other kids, and cries whenever I leave the room. Edgar cries and cries and cries and when he´s laughing he sounds like he´s crying and then he cries some more. He only stops crying if you´re rocking him while standing up, so we all sort of trade who takes care of him on what days to alleviate the rage. Franklin is a little devil and likes to bite and look down my shirt, but he´s a cutie too. Sarahy cries until she throws up, which is sort of disturbing. Anyway you get the point, the psychologist in me wants to study these kids as they grow up and figure out what they´re going to be like as teenagers/adults. I had mentioned before that they have a program where they offer classes for the families of the kids. The most recent one is being offered for mothers between 16 and 22 years old, which floored me when I read that. I keep hearing more and more about the teen pregnancy here and it´s really sad. It´s hard because it´s such a Catholic country that talk about sex is taboo, but something tells me that it´s still going on here...
-This past weekend I met some guys in Granada that were from Canada. They were heading to Leon so we ended up getting together here this past week. I´ve spent the past few weeks working and avoiding getting to know the foreigners that are travelling here, I guess I feel like I want to immerse myself as much as possible, in order to learn as much spanish as I can. But the two times I hung out with the guys I met SO many people, it was great. They´re staying at a hostel that pretty much only foreigners stay at and it was great to go there. People were from all over...south africa, australia, germany, ireland, israel, canada, the states...and everyone was so friendly and interested to talk. Last night was all talk about politics and how different they are in different countries. It was really interesting to hear and sort of made me feel like I´ve been missing out by being antisocial. That being said, I guess it´s all travelers so most people are only here for a few days, but it was nice nonetheless to have conversations in which I didn´t have to limit my side of the conversation by what verbs I remember.
-On a gross note, I went to the grocery store (yes the same one in which I bought the two week old yoghurt) to buy a pack of peanuts and raisins. In line to the grocery store I was a little dismayed to find that there were ants crawling on the outside of the packet. I´m not too picky though, I figured I´d just brush them off. HOWEVER, when I went to brush them off I realized...they´re inside of the packet. How the ants managed to find their way into a sealed package is still a little baffling to me, but I think I´ve officially decided that two strikes against a supermarket is about enough.

Hope everyone back home is doing well and staying warm!