Students from Si A La Vida




Hello family,
Jim(Jamie)(Hi Jim) is in Managua picking up Patrick from the airport and I am studying this week , by myself at Language School in San Juan del Sur. Jim and Patrick will spend the week at Ometepe and I will join them on the 30th.

As you know, I am very dependent on Jim while we travel and so this is a huge change for me. Language school is hard, exhausting work but I have a bit of new hope that I can actually learn this language, even at my grand age!! My teacher is patient and
fun and just the perfect match for me. I am reading Pinocchio in Spanish and it helps that I know the story as it is in all these Tenses of which I am clueless.

After class, I had lunch at my house with the other 3 language Students living there and the mother of the house. The four of us just kept our mouths full to avoid any opportunity to be expected to reply to the mother except with smiles and nods and I can do that well. We were all just done!!
After lunch I walked to the beach with my homework and had a couple of
interesting encounters.

The first was with a 19 year old just finishing her 6 months study abroad and spending her last two weeks here. She approached me( unusual for young people to notice us 50
year olds but it is happening more) and asked me if I knew how to get to the lighthouse. Jim and I had done that trip last year and it was extremely difficult to find but we ended up talking and visiting for a time enjoying each others company.

Next, I found a place to sit in a restaurant having agua mineral and a woman my age approached me and asked if one of the sailboats was mine. She told me I looked like someone who had a sailboat and she and her husband had been sailing for 6 months and so we visited. Mostly, i am delighted that to at least one human being, I look like someone who owns a sailboat! At the end of our talk, she greatly encouraged me to
get out of the u.s. I laughed and said that I was out, that I was here and then soon I would be there and you can imagine the rest.

All is well.
Time to get ready for la senna.
a big noisy fiesta is in San Juan so I go to bed early to be ready for
their pre dawn noises.

Love you all,
Mom/Ro