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Hello once again from Nicaragua. Updates on my body and overall well being: my eye-no longer swollen, my feet- no longer swollen, my hair-still not washed and long, my smell- like a foot but I took a shower yesterday, my teeth- lost toothpaste for a week and have some again so... clean, my shoes- barely any toe on either and I wear my women sandals most of the time, my clothes- one pair of shorts that are real stained, one pair of board shorts stain and disgusting kind of milduey, pants that are too big for me and too blue for everybody, a rotation of four dirty shirts, and lastly one pari of underwear rotating with noting but certain swimming days in the ocean and hiking days in the sweat, also we did laudry like a week ago so they are pretty clean, lastly my face still ugly just with alittle extra hair on my neck chin and upper lip, we lost the scissors to shave with so just lettings nature work. Also dont have a toenail cutter, so you can imagine. As for our well being we are doing better then ever in a hotel in the middle of Matagalpa, which happens to be the coffee country of Nicaragua and the hotel happens to be these peoples house and they have taken us into their family. So that has been great but let me fill you in on the stuff we have done for the past week.
From San Juan Del Sur we had to part from our friends and miss them greatly so if yall are reading home fully we will get to see you before we leave and we love yall and miss yall alot and need our friends who cant speak proper english very well like us Americans. So we have parted and then we left for Granada and there we stayed in the same place that we stayed before for a night then we went off to Masaya the next day with another american who was flying out in two days. This guy was from Flordia and goes to University of Florida and was an intense character. He reminded us of Adam Owens, shorter, and when he gets fixed on something he will not give it up. So Adam if you read this your counterpart is in Florida. So this guy went with us all day as we went to go see the family that we took out to dinner that one night at the beginning of the trip and we then saw some of the other kids that we met the first time and hung out with them for a bit and made plans with them to play soccer later in the evening. So our American friend was on a mission to spend the rest of his money and wanted to buy some stuff so, since Masaya is a hammock making town we went on a search for hammocks and left the first market which is the touristy market, and went to the local market which was crazy and amazing at the same time. There he bought a hammock and a couple of shirts and then we went on our way back. On the way back to our hotel to change clothes to play soccer in, we saw a woman who we had seen before and got smoozed into helping her out. Now the reason I said smoozed because about 20 to 30 times a day we get asked for money from somebody simply because we are white. Although we would love to help them out we arent able. So normal we say im sorry then walk on, but this time the woman convinced david to help her out, because it is impossible to convince me because I dont understand this jibberish language they speak down here. We then went with her on a long wwalk and as we were going with her the other American gave us some money because we dont really have much any more and then he went to get the last things that he wanted to buy while he had time because it was his last day. After we bought the woman some milk and walked her to the bus with her children and prayed for her, we left to go back to change our shoes to play soccer with these kids from the market. On the way back the American whose name I just relearned from David was Justin, and he was I guess influenced by what we have been doing and he bought one of the kids a soccer ball. Friggin awesome. Then we went back got some shoes and the three of us started a soccer game in the middle of the market with these kids and more of course joined in and we had a nice size game of soccer with a bunch of little kids as many people watched. It was real fun and the kids I think had a great time. Then we went back to the hotel and chilled for a bit then went off to get food for dinner. Justin came with us again and we went to the same place that we went to eat last time we were in Masaya which was that place where all the families come out and set up tables and just make food for anybody that wants it for real cheap. So we went there, Justin loved it, he said it was the best food he had been since he had been down in Nica and thought it was awesome that we found the place. So he loved it and ate a ridiculous amount of food, and a pig tongue haha. Then we chilled in the park right therer next to the food and watched some kids play soccer. They were real dramatic when ever they got hurt like many of the kids in nicaragua and laid on the ground wining for a while before they started playing again. So as we were watching a guy came up to us, fairly drunk I may add, and wanted to arm wrestle. Justin jumped on the opportunity, hahahahaha. so they did once Justin crushed him and then he wanted another go and this time they went to a structure in the middle of the park where everyone could see and started laughing at the situation. This one guy was egging them on the whole time and me and him were laughing at the situation. and so after Justin arm wrestled the first guy another guy wanted a go so he arm wrestled him, who also was quite drunk. The second guy got pissed and stormed off after he lost. haha, then Justin arm wrestled the first guy again and this time it was official. After about five minute of the nicaraguan blabering on in spanish about the placement of Justins arm and a crowd of about twenty Nicaraguans formed laughing really hard, they arm wrestled again and Justin beat him again and the guy was alittle embarassed but he asked for it because it started it and Justin who was similar to Adam to remind yall once again, was crazy and I didnt really see any way that he could lose. After that escapade we got a fudgesicle and then walked back to the Hotel.
Once we got back to the hotel we chilled for hours playing some cards and talkig and an amazing opportunity arrose. Somehow, I dont remember how, but we started talking about Jesus. For the next hours david and I tagg teamed an effort to tell the full entirety of the gospel and we did. I dont think one topic was really missed, it was amazing and this guy loved it. He said he would think about it so Im not sure what happened because he left early the next morning to catch his plane but we dared him that night to pray and ask God to show himself to him and we told told him He will. Bold haha, not really sure if it was a good idea to say that but I wanted to and fealt an urge, then prayed when I laid in my bed for Justin, so if yall want to pray for him please do so.
After that amazing night we went on to Leon. In Leon we stayed at a great hostel where we chilled alot and read some books and one day we went to the beach. We get to the beach on a semi glummy day so werent that excited to swim and we were with three other people from the hostel and so we put our stuff down david and I looked at the surf and it was huge. The absolute biggest waves I have ever swam in and they were crazy. Not clean at all kind of hurricane like without much wind, it was awesome. So of course, since david and I are children, we sprinted towards the water until it destroyed us and swam out and proceeded to body surf. Now with waves that big and rough body surfing doesnt work that well so basically what we did was catch a wave take it for a bit and once we were about five to ten feet above the water we got into a ball and got destroyed. The best part about this was that even though it was a surf break right on the beach we never touched the bottom. When we got wrecked we just spun about in the water then scrambled for the surface. HAHAHA it was awesome. I fealt like a little boy and just found out I could run. It was amazing. The others were too scared to get in I would like to add. haha. great fun.
Then we left Leon and arrived at Esteli. Now Esteli is the cigar capital of Nicaragua, we didnt actually smoke any but we shall together friends. So we got to Esteli and tried to find a cheap place to stay... We did, for 2.50 a person, hahahaha. Needless to say it was the worste night of sleep I have ever had. I dont really know how to describe the place other then the fact that the rooms were not really completely seperated. the tops of all the walls were non existent and so we could hear everything that was going on in the other rooms and when they turned their lights on in the middle of the night it was like our light being turned on. So just imagine why there would be a hotel for 2.50 a night and just simply imagine what happened through the night. Im not going to really talk about it on this blog all I can tell you is that david and I probably slept two hours and that was between 6 and 8 in the morning after everybody had checked out. Ask about it when I get home. So we naturally moved hotels and stayed at one for 5 dollars a night which was a great place with an old man running it who looked awesome and wore a bowler hat and it was a great place. That night our sleep was much better. In Esteli we went to a waterfall that was about it because there were not any other backpackers there and we didnt really meet many people so we moved on to Matagalpa.
Matagalpa is known for amazing coffee which was the reason why we came naturally. We got to the town wondered like normal then eventually after looking at some not so nice hostels and ended up staying at this hotel called hotel Alvarado and it has been one of the best decisions that we have made. We arrive, leave because it was alittle expensive then come back because we really liked it. By too expensive I mean 7.50 a night haha. SO we ended up going back found out they were Christians and so we went to church with them that night. Then after church they fed us. Then the next day we went to church in the morning they fed us breakfast then we went to their farm they fed us lunch, then we went to church with them again and we were already heading out when they asked us to dinner. But they fed us breafast this morning too. Amazing, these people have essentially taken us into their family. They are amazing and it has been great staying that their hotel with them, and they really hooked us up. It has been a great time. Lastly today we went to the Nicaraguan version of the Willie Wonka Chocolate factory. It was a castle... a mini castle the same size as a small house and there we walked around for like ten minutes tasted some chocolate and then bought acouple bars. I was much more excited when I was going then when we left. I thought it was going to be a nice big chocolate factory with oompaloompas but it wasnt they only had three Nicaraguan women working there and they didnt even sing us a riddle or catchy song. What the heck. and they werent orange with green hair they were brown with brown hair. Not a chocolate factory and barely deserves the name of castle. haha. But seriously the chocolate was amazing. Overall it wins but dissapointing and alittle boring. Then later that day, I guess we were in a learning mood because we decided to go to the coffee museum. Boring. And the book lied to us because it said we were going to get free coffee, which we didnt, so we learned some today not much though. Oh yeah haha and by the way this family who has been awesome to us doesnt speak any english, so Im here once again and trying to communicate so they mainly talk to david. I can smile really well though and I think my accent is getting really good on the word si so we will see. When I see yall in a couple weeks Ill be fluent watch out world you have seen eric with one language just imagine what I can do with one and a couple words.

P.S. PEACE