Right now I’m super friggin tired. I have spent all day in the hot Managua sun getting the necessary things for the casita and moving them in. This morning, Luis and I woke up early and went to the Mercado Oriental (the biggest outdoor market in Central America) to find our furniture. In order to make sure that we were getting a good deal we had to trek around in the dirt and the mud and the heat and the sun and the crazy people with food and drink carts trying to run me over, to get lots of different prices. In the end we done good. We bought a big dresser with the top section for hanging clothes, the bottom with drawers, and on the front of the closet part their is a long mirror (so that killed two birds with one stone) – that is for my clothes. For Luis we bought a regular dresser with drawers. We also bought a rectangular wooden table for the kitchen and four green plastic chairs to go with it. Then, we went a huntin for a refrigerator. We ended up buying a small washing machine (which is very primitive because it has two parts, one which fills with water and washes, and the other where you put the wet clothes to spin the water out of them). And we made a deal with one of our favorite market men to find us the refrigerator we wanted at the price we wanted and to deliver it to us in a couple of days. Then we packed our purchases and 4 men into a truck to take to the new place. On the way we stopped in la Maximo to pick up Luis’ bed which somehow managed also to fit in the truck with the men, and we headed on over to Casa Nuestra. The men nicely unpacked it in about two seconds and we were on our way back to Las Brisas.
Ate some lunch, took a shower (but my feet are still not clear of the market dirt so I will have to give them a good scrubbing later), and packed up another bag full of kitchen stuff to bring back to the house. It was like Christmas unpacking all of the goodies all over again. Seriously. Seeing everything we had and putting it on the shelves in our beautiful kitchen made my heart just jump for joy. Knowing that all the goodies I had saved for months I would now be able to USE…makes it all worth the wait. From there I came to work at the American School for my second to last day with this level 6 group. Guess how long it took me to get from my front door to the school. You’ll never guess. 5 MINUTES! Compare to 25 from las Brisas. There are no words. None. I’m happy as a clam.
Oh yes and let me explain the other goodness…we made a deal with Heather that if we paid for the whole fridge, we would get to stay in the big room for two months paying the same rent before we had to start paying an extra $50 bucks. That’s all I can say, it’s all just too good. In the next couple of days we will get the fridge and hopefully get some internet set up and then we’ll be pretty much set. Just you wait. Probably on Friday or Saturday I will bring my camera to take some pictures so you can all get a good visual of the new place.
JOY!
