With the rain, come the flies...

So I´ve learned that the first few months (May and June) of rainy season are also fly season. Gross! Everyone and their brother has been sick. Mostly just with a cold, but I was lucky enough to get an amoeba and a parasite! I either drank a bad batch of water or the flies contaminated my food. I´m completely fine and recovered now. It really only lasted one morning before the PC docs were able to diagnose it and get me on antibiotics to make everything stop. I feel pretty lucky actually that I made it over 9 months here without getting sick! That might be a Peace Corps Nicaragua record.

School has been on and off due to meetings and ¨actos¨ as usual. This Friday (tomorrow) there is an acto/competition about Carlos Fonseca, an important dead Sandinista. The kicker is that everything´s in ENGLISH! What does that mean? A) That I´ve spent several hours helping kids translate their skits and poems and writing out pages of phonetically-spelled English, not to be confused with Swahili!, and b) that no one is going to understand anything that the kids are saying except for me and my two counterparts. Haha. Should be interesting.

Not much else has been going on. Our kitten has been missing for the past 3 days, so I think it´s official that it´s lost/dead/stolen. We have bad luck with pets here.
My community classes just had another round of tests. Everyone in my more advanced class passed! And only two failed from the other, beginner class. A great improvement from the 50% passing rates on the last tests. Success!
Countdown to when I get home is at 11 days! I can´t wait to see everyone, go to Trader Joes and Target and eat good food!