HOY Hear Out Yellow

We had a late start this morning as everyone was exhausted from watching ¨Hotel Rwanda¨ last night. Seriously, everything we do here has added meaning to why we are here. I have never seen the movie before, and it left me speechless by the end of it. It triggered a lot of emotions for me, but mainly overwhelmed, shocked, depressed and confused by how people can be so ruthless and cruel. For those of you who have not seen the movie, I highly recommend it. It is based on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. I cannot help but to question how hatred can be so powerful, enough to make one kill another. This kind of brutality is still existing in our present world. We live in such an interconnected world, and we are becoming more dependent on each other. We need to look past our differences and help one another, for this is the only way to achieve world peace.

Anyway, we ate lunch at a new mall today! We have been eating at this mall called the Plaza Inter and decided we need to experiment new places. After lunch, we found the Peace Corps Headquarters after asking about ten taxi drivers. Piling 6 of us into a taxi has become a daily routine. 60 cordobas later, we arrived at a fully guarded blue-walled compound. We met up with the Environmental Director and she was a great help to us. She gave us contacts to peace corps volunteers in Chinadega and hopefully we will get to meet up with them this weekend when we travel to Leon. After we left the Peace Corps office, we stopped by the park near our place and enjoyed our favorite Nicaraguan snack: Eskimo Ice-cream! Oh did we ever tell you that we are President Ortega´s neighbor? Yes, he lives next to us and we were thinking of dropping in today for a coffee visit but thought maybe that would not be such a good idea...