Local Celebrity

I was in the newspapers today! I bought myself a copy and flipped through it without seeing anything, so i didn't buy more copies, thinking i would be in tomorrow's paper. i got home and looked more thouroughly, and there i was on the back page of the sports section with a rather lengthy article to boot. I still can't believe it. The website for the article is
http://www.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2007/octubre/22/noticias/revista/222620.shtml. It blatently lies about us, though, saying that there was a two-month audition with a hundred kids trying out and that we were the selected few. That's totally a lie--as you remember, i was recruited off the street. If there was such an audition none of us would have been selected haha.

I finally went to the motorcycle dealership, and asked if there was someone there who could teach me to drive (i figured that for one, this is nicaragua, and secondly, they probably really want to sell their products). Yes was the answer, and they said that a guy would call me in the next day or two. it's now been three days without a call, so i'm going tomorrow to check up on that. hopefully i can get the bike this week.

Esmir and I went out with Dylan on Saturday to TGI Fridays to watch the ball game and get some american food. i got a jack daniel's burger with bacon, and it was the best i've ever had. It wasn't much of a game, but it took care of that little bit of homesickness we were feeling. We met a guy who loves american football, and he says there are leagues we can play in so we're going to look into that for sure. I'd absolutely love to play football again.

Tomorrow i'm taking a friend of mine from the school in la chureca out to lunch and then to my house to hang out. He's 16 years old and a really nice guy. i would like to take a different kid/group of kids out every week or so to give them a time outside the dump and get to know them. their parents pretty much give them permission for whatever, so hopefully i'll be able to do some of that. Dylan and Lauren's apartment complex has a public pool, so i'd love to take the kids there. they can't swim, but it's a pretty shallow pool.

That's pretty much all that's going on... still working hard on that spanish