Week 6

Week 6

So I didn’t get to post last week, but if you had constant penis fights going on in front of your house all week, I highly doubt you would have found the time either. Yes, this week was the annual festival for Saint San Juan (Is that a saint? I just go by what I’m told) in San Juan de Oriente. Apparently, this is a huge deal here. They cancel their classes (not our Spanish classes though, PC takes no holidays!), and basically get drunk all week, shoot off noisemakers, have parades constantly circling around the town, play music 24/7, and randomly decide to stage fights with bull penises as their weapon of choice. I’ve been told they spend weeks preparing these bull penises so they are extra effective in battle. It really must be a fulfilling experience to see your bull penis in action after all that hard work. So basically last week I was trying to sleep thorough band music at 4a.m, stepping over passed-out drunks on the way to class in the morning, and running away every time I saw a bull penis fight coming. Seriously, they are gross. Guys get bloody and really should seek medical attention afterwards. This one guy had all these slash marks on his face. There can’t be anything worse than a bull penis to the face. I’m not sure how many times I’ve used the phrase bull penis in this paragraph, but I will stop now. Bull penis. Okay, last time, promise. Gringo tourists even came, which was kind of a bizarre sight to see in our small town. The tourists were even doing weird touristy things like taking pictures of the chickens in the street. Must have been city people.

We also had our language interviews this week and received our site packets! My language level has progressed 2 levels, but I need to advance one more level in the next 3 weeks, or else you people will be seeing me sooner than expected! No, I really should be okay, but cross your fingers during week 9. The site packet and site fair were probably the best parts of the week. The site packet is just a list of all the potential cities our group could be placed in with descriptions about each city and the job we would be doing there. Everyone got crazy excited when they brought them out, like fatties at a Ryan’s kind of excited. At the site fair we got to go around to different stations and ask questions. We have our interviews tomorrow with the people in charge to tell them our preferences. I’m trying not to get my hopes up for a few of them, but it’s hard. Clearly, they can’t put you exactly where you want to go, I just hope they don’t send me somewhere I really don’t want to go. My top choice right now though is Corinto, Chinandega. I won’t get into why right now, cause I’ll probably start envisioning my life there and…..damn, too late. I am debating the merits of begging during this interview, perhaps weeping, I’ll keep it on standby, just in case There’s several others I really like too, though. We find out next Tuesday, I think, so I’ll just go in expecting the worst and hoping for the best. Leaving you now with that nugget of wisdom. Later people!