in Nicaragua

unfortunately i am having sum trouble wit charging my camera battery and my phone is flat so i couldn't take any px of the bus trip from CR to Nica which includes the border crossing....so I will still write and you can imagine ...ok so we caught bus from Costa Rica. I was seated next to man, however, wen we were on our way people moved to other seats where no one was so i did to and had a whole seat to myself all the way. along the side of the road were little coffee trees growing and some big ones. They were everywhere. I was told that Costa Rica is THE best place in the world for coffee. I didnt really have time to investigate this for myself. When we arrived at the border everyone got off the bus but u could leave your bags on the bus. Everyone did, so I did..  You get your passport stamped for leaving CR, then its back on the bus. We drove over the border into Nicaragua, while doing this a border officer was on the bus collecting our passports and entry forms into Nicaragua. We had to give to him. When the bus stopped all had to get off the bus but this time we had to take our bags as well. Our luggage also that was in the storage cabin on bus had to be taken off and inspected by officers. So we waited by our opened bags for someone to come and inspect them. I would have liked to have got a foto of this scene. Then it was back on the bus and we were off.

In Nica the bus route took us past Lake Nicaragua. it is the 2nd largest lake in latin america, however, its not like our lakes around Roto's . This lake is home to fresh water sharks. it has two volanoe's in it and lots of islands.
Along its banks are wind turbines. I really wanted to get px of those.
We got off our bus not far from San Juan del Sur and caught a taxi the rest of the way home.

The drive to San Juan del Sur is pretty. finally we were home. first thing i noticed about Nicaragua is the heat...it is hot. San Juan del Sur is surrounded by hills and forests and of course the beach is 2mins from where i am staying.

When we got home, i unpacked and rested up abit.  English group had their mtg that night. Paul & MC are in this group so I decided to go with them. Mtg is at 6pm. The hall is less than 10min walk. I will post some px of the hall & cong asap. MC and I walked home from mtg, Paul had his bike. while we were walking there was a power cut in the street. Everything went black (it gets dark early here, about 6ish) I felt abit nervous as the people here are in the streets until late because its sooo warm at night. We kept walking, fortunately it came back on before we got home.

Today (thursday) I spent the day on bible studies with MC. we did 4 together. we walked to them and that was abit of walking. i bought an umbrella before we set off, i think this will be my constant companion. during the day the sweat was pouring off me, then after field we went for a swim, then home. Paul & MC then went to do one of Paul's studies and MC also had another study to be done before we all went to the spanish mtg tonight. 2 of MC"s students came to mtg, and since I had just met them today it was nice to see them again at mtg. we walked home and one of MC students walked with us, no power cut tonight. Tomorrow the group is at 6.30am, i will go, hopefully it wont be too hot at that time. Once again I am tired as, sleep time for me.