Thought I'd take advantage of the brain activity freshly activated after 2 hours in an airconditioned (too cold really) movie theater and write a few sentences...about recent happenings and discoveries....1. I have for quite some time thought that it is very time and energy consuming to mail a postcard...as there are about 3 post offices in this town and I have to drive to get to them with the car I don't have and I dont know when they're open + it takes about 5 weeks for it to arrive at their final destination..etc etc..but today, all of a sudden - I found a little card-selling shop in the shopping centre which had: cards, stamps AND a mailbox! I mean really, this place can sometimes be so effective! Love it!
2. Lunch Tuesday: rice, beans, salad, chicken and a drink = 30 cordobas ($1,50)
Coffee today: Ice mocca.....46 cordobas (almost $2,50)
Bus from Managua to Granada (1 hour): 23 cordobas (a dollar and a bit)
Taxi from shopping centre to my house (5 minutes...after dark, no choice): 40 cordobas ($2)
......have a think about it.....
3. What made my day on the 1st of May: buying two plastic shelf arrangements for my walk-past closet and bathroom...yes, small joys of everyday life...1st of May celebrations were cancelled due to the famous pigflu so we ended up at Central-America's biggest and apparently most dangerous(I was armed with scruffy clothes and money in my bra..) roof covered market to buy a much longed for plastic drawers/shelfs to organise my underwear, socks and bathroom items...yes..it seriously made my day...!!!
4. Even though I've been sligthly worried, I have now confirmed that I am not getting dumber by the second or loosing brain cells at a rapid speed ... many fellow norsemen (counting the Danes) are experiencing the same symptoms...short and long term memory loss, fatigue, lack of energy, inability to have a coherent conversation, sensation of brain freeze...HOWEVER...in Managua it is called brain melt...apparently my brain and body do not have the same functions available at 35 degrees celcius + a ridiculous level of humidity...it is seriously frustrating, but something which I suppose we have to get to used to...and gives me an explanation to why I in the middle of a sentence forget what I am talking about...it's an utavdeisjølopplevelese!!!! (out-of-yourself-experience)
However...I am now back in my little house and the great feeling of a brain at a decent temperature is about to wear off...slowly but surely going back to my half-concious state of hot-melted-brain unable to connect...
BIIIIP!!Connection failed...check with you service provider for a solution to this problem....might not be solved for a while...
(Off to Pueblo Nuevo in the north of the country for a few days now..will be back with foto documentation and more stories...)
