Rain!

It´s been raining like crazy here and everywhere but my site is seriously flooding. The country is actually on a sort of state of emergency because of it...though I´m not really sure what the entails. Until yesterday it had rained here in my site nonstop for an entire week. The Lake Nicaragua is overflowing and flooding all the communities that live along its edges. Other lakes and rivers are flooding everywhere too and people are being evacuated and put in shelters. The news is 100% about the floods and shows people´s houses floating away, up to the roof with water and people tearing their houses apart to be able to reuse the materials somewhere else. I think we´ve received a record amount of rain this rainy season and the rivers and lakes have reached levels higher than those during Hurricane Mitch in 1999 which was really destructive...and there´s still another month (at least) of rainy season left.

Other than the rain not much else is happening. We haven´t had much class because of the rain. The kids who live in the campo and have to walk really far on muddy roads don´t come when it rains like this so classes don´t really happen. Things should pick up again as normal next week.

The current PC Trainees were supposed to go on their volunteer visits this weekend but they were cancelled because of the rain. I was looking forward to giving a PCT the inside scoop about Peace Corps! Training is rough and they need the encouragement. I´ll see them this weekend for a charla on Cultural Adaptation though.

My dad will be here in 10 days to do hip replacements and attend the national orthopaedic meeting in Managua. I can´t wait to see him! I can´t believe September is already over.