The Invitation

Our invitation came! We're off to Nicaragua, and much sooner than expected. I'm guessing that the original assignment they had for us fell through, so we've been bumped up by three weeks! Now we leave August 29 for orientation, and then August 31, we will be in country. Yikes. That's in six weeks!

I don't really know much about Nicaragua, except that it's hot, they speak Spanish, and they, like Honduras, got hit hard by hurricane Mitch last decade, and that the country has been a relatively peaceful democracy ever since the late 1980s. I also know about some "contra" revolution they had in the early 1980s and something about the CIA and Reagan supporting the revolution because the leadership at the time was Marxist. Not exactly a great history, but the Peace Corps doesn't go where there isn't a dire need for help.

Developing....