Went out for dinner with Americans

A lady that I had interviewed last week said that she had a boy form Chicago staying with her this week, so yesterday he came and I met with him for awhile. He was in the Peace Corps in a village near Bluefields, and he also knew a girl that was doing research here to and was from Wisconsin. They had apparently been roommates in Chicago for a while and were good friends, so we all went out to dinner tonight. Apparently there has been quite a community of Midwestern people that have come to the Atlantic coast to do volunteer work. I was also amazed at how many people in the community that they both knew. I suppose though, living anywhere for 2 years will make you become part of anywhere you go. They both seem to like it here enough to come back too. The girl is back to do research for her master’s thesis too, she is studding literature and says that she has conducted about 30 interviews that have gone up to 5 hours! That makes me feel like I have hardly done anything! Anyway, it was nice to talk with some other people that have some similar experiences researching Bluefields.