So. It's been a while, once more. I am getting used to saying that. It's just not as easy to always remember to update this thing. Anyway, things have been really busy around here. We've had a great experience enjoying a lot of what Nicaragua has to offer. We have some exciting trips planned for the upcoming weeks, so I'm looking forward to doing some cool traveling adventures.
Aside from the workshop, Justin and I have been participating in a "dance group" with a bunch of kids from the church's institute of religion. It's been a lot of fun. The group is called "Ritmo en la sangre", and we spent ALL last week practicing for our performance that happened this last Saturday night.
It was a good time. I am posting the video of the performance here so that all can see. Truly, it's nothing too great or spectacular, but it was definitely something new for me, and a good challenge. For those that can't tell, I am constantly in the back left corner...if that doesn't help, I am one of the 2 gringos, and I am the shorter of the 2. There. That should suffice.Anyway, aside from that, we had a cool opportunity today to teach the workshop to about 45 students at UPOLI, the polytechnical university of Nicaragua. I don't know if the word in English is "polytech" or "polytechnical" but I'm sure you get what I mean. Anyway, it was a 3 hour lecture/conference that we did and while it was exhausting to try and cram sooooo much information into such a short amount of time, I felt really good about it. One of the biggest newspapers in the country came and interviewed me, while one of the big news networks interviewed Justin. It was cool, there was definitely a lot of press involved which was a pretty neat experience. I hope that my newspaper bit turns out okay--or at least that I sound like I know what I'm talking about. We'll see.
Anyway, here are some pictures and the video of our group's "dance performance" from last Saturday. We have another performance on Friday...here's to improvement ((raises glass of Diet Coke))!
