Yesterday was a mad scramble to get everything ready for Nik, Lesley, Adam and Sarah's arrival, including a visit to two potential alternative host families in Granada. After visiting their houses, I made an emergency phone call to Lesley to decide on where to stay. Our choices: incredibly nice people with stifling hot homes with no ceiling fans, raw cement bathrooms, barbed wire fences, and in two locations, a block apart - or all together in relative luxury, but without much personal connection to the host family. In deference to our heat-sensitive families, we decided to go with the luxury ceiling fan option - but I still feel kind of bad about it.
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| Potential bedroom in Granada homestay #1 |
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| Lovely potential homestay mom #1 |
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| Potential Homestay #2 |
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| Potential bedroom in Homestay #2 |
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| Totally awesome potential host family #2 |
Then Elliot and I went off on an adventure to see how the other 70% of Nicaragua lives. And after 24 hours in the Pueblos Blancos, those hot cement houses in Granada actually started looking pretty nice.
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