Living La Vida Nica: The BIG Update!

Wow, other then my other post today (which I actually wrote last week), I haven´t blogged in a long time!! At least I was keeping busy though! I translated for a team (that was here at the orphanage) for three days when they did their community outreach (which is when I was given the parakeet, Jellybean, as a gift...see previous post), the next day I started translating for a family as they did their own style missions trip. We were all over Nicaragua: 2 days in Leon, a day down in a small community close to the Costa Rica boarder, and even a night in San Juan del Sur. It was tons of fun, and I got to know a lot of ministries in Nicaragua that I hadn´t heard of before, and had some expierences that really impacted me (a post about that is coming soon).

When I finished my week of translated I was exhausted (translating is seriously mentally tiring), I went to use the internet, but there was no signal! I was told that the ministries internet tower has been struck my lightening, and someone had to come out and fix it. It is fixed now, but the router in the girls dorm (where I usually hang out when I´m online) was competely fried as well, so now I´m hanging out in the livingroom of the boys dorm!!

Anyway, Im back online, and after going through my 55 new emails (mostly junk...) I´m up to date! Now all I have to do is post some new pictures of whats been going on at our house!

I realized as I was uploading the pictures that I really don´t have that many pictures to update. Things have been going slower then we would like, and the guy who was tiling our bathroom quit last week (long story). To summerize the building experience: its frustrating! Just like everything in Nicaragua, things don´t happen as quickly as you´d like them to. I´m not saying I wouldn´t do it again if I could turn back time. I´m just saying like everything else in Nicaragua, you have to learn to relax- things will happen when they happen!

Anyway, here´s the updates!

The Bathroom

(it actually looks better then this now, there is tile on the floor in the shower now, but like I said, our tile guy quit...)

Our windows: finished and welded in place!

Plus: the walls have the final stucco finish which is nice and smooth!

One of our two doors. We are buying actual wood doors too, but the iron door is needed for protection.

Note: we will have glass windows too, but at the moment its not top priority, and its expensive!

People keep asking us why we have two doors really close to each other. It is because what we are bluiding right now is a small part of the bigger house! When we build more, this part will become two seperate rooms, and each room will need its own door!