Hello Everyone,
I havent written a new post in a while because, well, I'm not in Nicaragua. I came home last Wednesday and am going back this coming Saturday (very early in the morning.) This trip home was never suppose to happen. My dear cousin, France-Anne Sweeny, had a horrific accident last week on Monday night, May 25. She fell off her horse and was then kicked once in the head and once in her ribs. She was kept alive so that they could donate her organs to later save five children and give back the gift of sight to two others from her corneas. When I found this out via phone call with my dad Tuesday night I was in shock, pure and simple. I could not wrap my head around it and so my body thought it would handle things itself by causing me throwing up fits all through the night. After a trip to the clinic Wednesday morning I got in the car with a Intercordia driver/stranger the 2.5 hours to Managua then boarded a plan to El Salvador then to Toronto. Home felt strange. Culture shock was very present as I drove home with my dad from the airport. I was going through all kind of shock. This past week has probably been the hardest of my life. Going through fits of guilt than of rememberance and then of contentness of seeing familiar faces and friends. France-Anne was more than a cousin to me, she was a sister and a future maid of honour. We had made a pinky promise. She and I were a team and I loved her like an older sister would. Returning to Nicaragua is going to be hard, I knew this from the start. I had to come home though, to have missed that funeral and being there for my aunt, uncle and cousin Christopher, her brother, would have been the biggest regret of my life. Something more powerful than myself got me home from Esteli last Wednesday, and something stronger than myself is going to get me back there. I just thought I should keep you all in the loop and understand why I haven't been keeping up with this blog. Stay tuned, soon there will be more Nicaraguan adventures to come, but in the mean time please keep me and my family in your prayers.
Thanks and as always,
Love,
S
About Me
- Siobhan Sweeny
- I'm a second year student at U of T in St. Michael's College studying Architecture, Visual Art Studio, and Art History. I never intended on going into the Intercordia Program but ended up in a meeting somehow and it spoke to me like nothing else had. I knew it was something I needed to do and I'm really excited to be spending May, June, July, and a little bit of August 2009 in Estili, Nicaragua volunteering at Funarte! Intercordia is a registered charity. BN# 833547870RR0001
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