A few fun things that may (or not) surprise you:

I have a mouse in my room…I have seen it once a day
I also have 2 pet geckos in my room…to help out with the bugs
My shower is a trickle (on a good day) of ice water
I ate Turtle Fin (i know Jericho….)(it was not good either!)
I have probably eaten about 20 chickens since coming here….(I thought fish was a popular in Bluefields, but not compared to the never ending pollo!)
The Taylors have an avocado tree right in the back yard, and I eat them every day (the Nicaraguans call them pears)
It had rained at least once EVERY day I have been here (that is not an exaggeration either)
I have been to church twice…for over 2 hours each time!
I am a local celebrity….for the folks that listen to Marvin’s 7 am radio show (he has mentioned me a few times)
I have watched more US television here than in the US…CNN is the fave here (I could tell you every detail of the Madonna and A-Rod “Affair of the Heart”, or Christy Brinkley’s divorce drama, or some lady that died scuba diving in Australia 6 years ago…..)
I have been out of the house past dark 3 times (2 of them were coming home from church)
Chickens crow nonstop from midnight to 5 am…guess they don’t really know when morning is
Dogs bark all of the time….mainly with a unison morning wake up at 5 am
I try to go to bed early (11ish)but normally cant fall asleep till 1, by then the chickens start, and I am up another hour…I usually end up sleeping in the morning but that is hard too because along with the usual chickens and dogs, there is taxi’s constantly blaring the horn, and neighbors with music cranked up…but actually when I am not trying to sleep, I like all of the sounds of Bluefields, they are happy sounds, happy music, and happy people J