The Final Countdown

I have two weeks to go, TWO WEEKS! That seems very strange to put into writing!
Yesterday William, my wonderful host brother, took Jess, Marissa, Dan, Sam and I (Dan and Sam are American new comers to Edna´s house!) to the great Somoto Canyon. It is beautiful! very far north on the West side of Nicaragua, very close to the Honduran boarder. Very hot and sweaty day though. When we got to the start of the canyon by hike and by boat we decided to stop and eat our signature banana peanut butter hot dogs for lunch. That has consisted of many of my meals here in Nicaragua, well when the meals are left me at least. Last night I decided to join my host brother Denis, his two friends and my host sister Samaria to the theater to see Transformers for roughly a dollar fifty American. I absolutely hated the movie and found it just embarrassing to watch, very very different from when I went to see Up! at the theater only a week before with all of my boy cousins here. Transformers was ridiculous, all the excess and the frivolity. Ive never been so embarrassed in a movie theater in my life. It wasnt the plot or the transformers it was the portrayal of American College and and all the unnecessary sexuality etc. Anyways, it really brought me into a huge reality check, infact I think it was my first real instance of culture shock so far on my journey home. Coming from Esteli for three months, seeing La Chureca and the children in inhumane poverty and then seeing the ignorance and lax carelessness of the teenagers in that movie just made me sick. I suppose its something that I´m just going to have to live with. I can´t go one living in disgust or frustration though, I have to find a way to see the good parts in everything but to never forget the horrors or the injustices I witnessed. Its all a delicate balance, as everything almost always is.
Anyways, until the next time.

S