"This is the true story... of ten strangers... picked to live in the Manna House...work together and live by one rule (Don't flush the TP)... to find out what happens... when people stop speaking English... and start getting real...The Real World - Developing World."
Team NICA 09-10
It's already become apparent that living in the Manna House will be like a season of the Real World, minus, of course, the video cameras and MTV madness. Ten different personalities, all living and working together for the next 13 months...this will be a learning experience in itself.
In just about 30 minutes, I will be leaving the place I've already learned to call home in Nicaragua, the Manna House, for a home-stay in downtown Managua. I have never lived alone with a Spanish-speaking family, but after study abroad in Madrid, I'm sure I will make many blunders with the Spanish language and new customs that will be sure to be comedic and hopefully not offensive. For the next two weeks, I will be living, eating, and speaking with a new family, taking language classes in the morning (thank God!), and doing cultural activities/program shadowing in the afternoons. I'm not exactly excited to be leaving the Manna House, but I know this home-stay is going to break me in to the language and culture of Nicaragua in a powerful way. Plus, as long as I can find a Coca Cola Light (that's Diet Coke for you folks back in the States) at a nearby venta, I know I can make it through anything!
Love from Nica,
JM
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