Richard’s Reckless Travels

July 23rd

With plans to head off to Managua following our last day of training, I woke up at 4:30 in the morning so I could show up to Managua at 7. I ended up getting there 45 minutes early, got suckered into buying a newspaper, and waited.

Eventually, I found the PC party bus and was shuttled along with the rest of the aspirantes to the IPADE, some hotel on the highway to Masaya.

We went through our final medical charlas, as well as our final security briefing, and ended the charlas with a presentation of each of the 5 sectors that Peace Corps is involved in here in Nicaragua, so we’re aware of cross sector work opportunities if the opportunity comes up. Following the charlas, I had my close of training work interview just to clear up any questions I had about my site, training, and just any general questions. I got another stack of books to drag up to site that I’m just going to leave for my project coordinator to bring up to me when we have a site interview on Thursday.

After this, we finally had freedom – and in Managua. After a dinner and hanging out with the rest of the trainees, a group of us headed to the gigantic mall that is down the highway. Literally, it was more American than an American mall. I went and checked out the price of a yoga mat, then we all went and saw the new Batman movie – awesome! Nothing else too exciting aside from running across the highway.