I'd like to, in the next few blog posts, highlight a few "typical" aspects of (my) life in Nicaragua.
The first? Oncoming herds of cattle. One of my favorite memories is still the first time I experienced the wonder of being stopped in traffic by a pack of slow-moving, large-horned steer. I was on the way to Kid's English in the Patrol, and the little 13.5-ers were singing "Yo te extrañaré" or "El Amor" or one of my other favorite belt-your-corazón-out songs at the time. Next thing I knew, we were hovering on neutral as the cows moseyed on by. What a life. And while this experience of being stopped in the middle of the road may not be extremely common, it is fairly typical to see farm animals on and around the streets, even in town. It should come as no surprise that the Nicaraguan economy relies heavily on agriculture.
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