Hola Amigos

Hola Amigos, one more week has passed and my spanish still sucks. One area where I think I have improved is that I know now that puedo mean can I and I have graduated from saying que, which means what, when I don´t understand people, to saying pardón, friggin polite right. right now we are in a town called El Castillo which is a little fishing village on Rio San Juan, staying in a hostel for 3.50 dollars, a couple down sides are that I´m sleeping on a wood board and the river shrimp that I want to eat is the same price as our days budget. Bummer, but the upsides out way the bad. We are saying in a hostel that is overhanging the river, it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been, the people are really nice, I have semi clean close, we are with a guy from Holland, a guy from denmark, and a guy from england, and they are awesome. The guy from england is one of the funniest people I have ever met and prepares stories for us all day in his head and tells us them once its the right setting. The Denmark guy is hilarious as well and just get real excited about everything and I continually laugh at him. The Guy from Holland is alittle more mellow but is hilarious as well and is one of the most beastly men I have ever met.
Alright so for the past week we havent been doing what we originally planned on doing but God put some people into our path that have been amazing to get to know and love. We got to Granada a week ago and stayed in a hostel there for 7 bones which was a bit pricey for our budget but we really liked it so we stayed anyways. There we met some people who we talked to alot when we were there and we liked alot but after a couple of days in granada we didnt see them again. The second day we were in Granada we decided to go to Lagona Del Poyo which is a crater lake in a volcanoe and is supposed to be the best swimming in all of Granada. So we get on a Chicken bus which is a old school bus from the states which is decked out in any way the driver sees fit. They all look pretty awesome and I wish they did something like that to all the school buses in the states. So we are riding on this bus and meet The guy from holland, england, and denmark, as well as a girl from ireland and Australia and another guy from Oregon. We hang out with them all day and get to know them pretty well and learn that they are awesome. We end up having to borrow money from them to get into the resort which we have to go to inorder to have fun at this lake and so we chill with them all day then have to meet back up with them that night so we can pay the irish girl back who lent us money. We meet at a bar and it was a hilarious night we sat with the English guy who is hilarious and tought us a game that was amazingly fun and hilarious and we will play in the states. The next day we all decided to go to Ometepe which is an island with two volcanoes on it one of whic his active haha. The Island is amazing we get hasseled at the port buy hotel owners then get a place to stay watch some soccer in the town and then the next day we have planned to hike up the bigger of the two volcanoes with all these people that we met plus three americans. We wake up at like 530 which here really isnt that early and hike this volcanoe, with our guides Willie and Juan. Willie speaks english and is pretty nice guy and Juan cannot speak english but litteraly giggles countinuosly for the entire time we were with him. Instance love for this 5´3 giggling Nica. After a long endeavour of trying to get food and water for our trip and Holland litterally packing his pack with chips and cookies we were off. At the time we couldnt see the size of this volcanoe because of the mist and clouds and little did we know what we were in for. To start the hike Willie climbs a mango tree and gets everybody a couple mangos which were the best mangos I have ever had. Then we were off we take a fair amount of breaks but the hike starts off pretty mild not too steap just like hiking a normal mountain, but the higher we got the steeper the trail got. Also to help you understand in Nicaragua they dont seem to like to really wind trails up the side of the mountain but instead essentially have them going straight up the mountain. So ast we are tackling this beast and we get up about half way which I thought they were saying was the top, I mentally broke down and wanted to go back but everybody else decided to go so I figured I couldnt go back so I had to go. There I dubbed us the Volcanoe goats because like mountain goats we were litterally climbing the face of a mountain but it wasnt a mountain it was a volcanoe, so we were alittle more BA. After this halfway point me Denmark Australia, and England continued up the mountain at a very slow pace and this was where I learned that England liked to make up stories. He made up a story with a couple suggestions from myself for super powers and talking animals, and Denmark with the suggestions of a dragon and magic. With that formula his mind worked. I literally crawled up the last 600 meters of the volcanoe dying alittle bit with every step then we get up to where there are only small plants and Juan gets alittle scared. He smells sulfur, oh and by the way willie stayed behind at the half way point with one of the guys who couldnt make it up and Juan came with us and informed us that he actually had never been up the volcanoe before. So we were 1300 meters up an active volcanoe with a guide who usually giggles at everything got really serious and scared and had never been there before... hahahahahaha. After him telling us it was twent five more minutes about three times and telling us 4 more minutes about 4 times and stopping alot to get alittle more scared about the sulfur fumes, and the burnt plants from lava and the fact that the volcanoe literally erupted a week before and the fact that he had never been there before, and that we werent legally allowed to be there my heart was pumping hard with excitement and we reached the top. No plants just rocks, really hot rocks, and mist every where we compared it to frodo´s journey to mount doom for all of you Lord of the Rings lovers. It was intense. WE then took pictures and left quickly because Juan was pretty scared and so we climbed all the way down made fun of willie for not going to the top and by the time we got back to the Hotel we realized that that was the hardest this most of us have ever done. I litterally couldnt walk and was dying slowly with every breath. I thought to myself why did I do that but was glad I did.
The next couple days we didnt move we watched the USA England game and realized USA is horendous, alittle pissed but at least we tied WOOT WOOT. The the next day we went biking around the small island which seemed to be an easy task. But once again we got into an incredibly strenuous bike ride which took litterally all day and it got dark when we were a couple hours from our town going through this rocky terrain. This was only because at the begining of the trip we were having a great time in which we stopped for smoothies for an hour and then lunch for about an hour an a half where we are 90% postive the woman killed a chicken for us. AWESOME. But after being on a bike for 10 hours my butt was bruised my palms were in tremendous pain and I was covered in mudd from head to toe. HAHAHA it sucked so bad. It was worse the the volcanoe. HAHAHA. Oh and by the way the people that went were me david Holland and Denmark. Denmark and I were just as weak as each other so we walked up alot of hills while david made up them for 75% of the time and Holand made up every one only really grunting once. He is a beast. That night after the worste thing I have ever done and being really pissed off that we did that I was laughing because how much it sucked and at the fact that England instead of going on the bike ride decide to go to a nice resort with a bath in the room haha, he doesnt speak spanish and just simply speaks english to everybody and we have only met like five people who speak english in this country, but people some how understand him and he gets all kinds of things some how. He got a 50% discount on his room and watched pride and prejudice with a Nicaraguan family that night just for a taste of how hilariously lucky this guy is. Well the next day we came here to El Castillo after an all night boat ride to San Carlos and an hour boat ride down the river. Its amazing and I wont have internet for a while because there is not much going on in the east coast where we are headed, just indigenous villages. AMAZING. Oh yeah and by the way PEACE.