Plunge and Scrub

Yesterday, I learned how to wash clothes by hand. Now, I actually did know how to do it before due to some bathtub washing in Cuba, however this was a new experience. Beatriz, who works in the house that I´m staying at, showed me how to used the ribbed part of the sink to wash my clothes. Hilarious really, she and I laughed the whole time. I think she was laughing because it was funny that I didn´t know what I was doing. I was laughing because I felt like Nicole Kidman. (It happens every now and then...hahaha). But really, there is a scene in Far and Away where she learns how to wash clothes by hand and Tom Cruise keeps telling her to ¨plunge and scrub¨.
It´s been a quiet weekend, I´ve been doing lots of translating for work. It´s a very different experience to be working abroad than to be studying abroad. I´m sure it will get even more hectic when the interns arrive later this week. Other than that I´ve been walking around town and getting used to life here in Masaya. It´s a good pace, no one is in a hurry to do anything. I am trying to learn from them. I learned a new phrase for life in the US, its ¨mordiendo la leña¨ which literally means chewing the kindling. What is really means is that someone is working too hard and not enjoying life. A little tidbit to remember.
Tomorrow will be a full day, we´re going to all the host organizationes to make sure that they´re ready for the interns. It´s interesting to see all the programs that exist here.
Anyway, I better get going back home before the mosquitos come out!