La Conquista

So I am really happy right now because I ended up gettting placed in the site that I wanted. I am very excited to be so close to the end of training. Only two more weeks!! I really can´t wait. The town I am going to is called La Conquista and it´s about 15 kilometers from the town I live in now. It has several rivers and waterfalls. I hear the people are super nice too, but that could probably be said for anywhere in Nicaragua. One thing that I am really happy about is that I don´t have to get to know a whole new city because the city that I come to for all my shopping, internet, phone needs will be the same one that I come to now. I have already begun pricing household items here. Another great thing about my site is that I will be able to purchase all of my furniture needs from my host that I live with now because he is a carpenter. He is going to make me a bed ¨matrimonio size¨ for about 60 dollars. If I were placed far away I would have to buy my furniture in the mercado for more money and less quality. Anyway, aside from all of that business I had a pretty busy weekend. My family threw a party for their nephew on Saturday that went from 4 in the afternoon till about one in the morning. Even I was dancing. Needless to say, I will not be watching that video. It was a really great time and much needed. Nicaraguans really know how to have a good time and when they throw a party they throw a party. Of course there was a piñata and party favors for everyone including me. I was very touched when I received my bowl of candy and a jewelry set. Everyone´s bowl had their name on it and since it was a gift from the aunt and uncle who live in Leon who don´t know me very well mine just said ¨Gringa¨. As I said I was touched. Everyone in the family, (and it is huge) is so nice and hospitable. I feel like no matter what happens with my next host family I will always think of this family as my true Nicaraguan family.