#nicaproblems

[instajoe305]

#CarneAsada #NicaProblems #BeastMode #Gains (at Fritanga Cana Brava)

[instajoe305]

#ReallyTho #Fritanga #NicaProblems 🔥🔥 (at Fritanga Monimbo Fontainebleau)

[addicted-to-felix-felicis]

Food

Being homesick is a normal part of a volunteer’s life during service, especially during the first few months at site, but I don’t know if how I feel is something you’d call being homesick. I of course miss my friends and family, but honestly, and most importantly, I miss food! It sounds ridiculous, and maybe you won’t understand unless you've spent an extensive time out of the country, but right now I am craving all types of food and restaurants offered in the states. I miss going to restaurants the most. I don’t know what it is, and if you know me, you’d know that I love eating out, but there’s something nice about going to restaurants with friends and family. When people ask me how I like to spend my free time I usually respond by saying hanging out with my friends or going out to eat. I miss coffee shops, applebees, taco bell, smoothie places, jimmy johns, casa blanca, noodles and company, olive garden, and most definitely Mexican restaurants. I have a lot of free time right now to think because the schools are in a long break, which leaves a lot of time for me to think. And a lot of the time I’m thinking about food. I imagine myself visiting the states and picturing all of the restaurants I would visit. I picture myself in Walmart buying all of the food that I don’t usually have access to here (or if I do, the food that’s too expensive to buy). And I especially think about what it would be like to buy a custard from Andy's. It’s almost a constant, ridiculous craving of mine. I try to remedy it by thinking of new recipes I can try out here. And I also try to remember that there’s all types of amazing food here that my friends and family back home do not have access to! I really love the different types of cheese here. I am definitely not usually a cheese person, and I don’t know why, but certain types of cheeses freak my out. Especially when they resemble mold. But here in Nicaragua I’ve really taken a liking to all of the cheeses I’ve tried. Back in Catarina I usually ate a crumbly hard white cheese that was really salty. A lot of people didn’t like it, but I actually didn’t mind it. Here there’s a few types of cheeses. My host mom actually sells queso (cheese) and cuajada. They are both white and smooth. I don’t know how to explain the difference, but I like them both. A really cool thing about the cheese here is that you can fry them. I don’t know if you’ve ever had fried cheese, but it’s really an amazing thing. Since being in my new site I’ve actually had the pleasure of watching and learning how to make a lot of Nicaraguan food. My family has made tortillas, tamales, atol, buñuelos, elotes, güirilas , and of course beans and rice. Tortillas, tamales, atol, güirilas, and elotes are all types of different food made from the same product, corn. My host mom makes tortillas every day from scratch and sells them. It’s a long and difficult process to make tortillas. Every night she boils her corn, and the morning after she makes the tortillas. In the mornings she has to go to another house where there’s a machine that can grind things so she can grind the corn into a sticky, dough-like mixture. Then she has to flatten the pieces of dough into tortilla shapes (which is harder than it sounds) and then she cooks them over the fire. One day I am going to video tape the process so everyone can see. Tamales are like a corn and slightly sugary mixture that’s been cooked in boiling water, and atol is similar but it’s not as solid and it’s more similar to a pudding. Güirilas are very similar to tortillas, but instead of a dry corn they are made from elotes, which are literally corn on the cob :)  Buñuelos are a whole different thing entirely. It’s made by cooking yucca, and then grinding yucca with cheese and a little bit of corn. After that you fry them, and then the last step is adding an amazing sugary glaze. These are one of my new favorite desserts. I do miss a lot of food, but Nicaragua has a lot to offer in terms of traditional Nicaraguan dishes, and honestly there are days when I really crave the usual Nica dish of gallo pinto (rice and beans), fried cheese, and a homemade tortilla. And I do have an out when I really want certain types of food, because bigger cities offer just about anything I could want, for example I visited Esteli the other day and was able to buy a hummus sandwich and donuts! So even though daily I don’t have access to these types of food, they can be found. The first picture is a pile of corn on the floor, ready to be used! The second picture is corn on the cob cooking. The third picture is my host brother shucking corn. The 4th is me eating buñuelos. And the last picture is my host mom cutting up yucca.

[addicted-to-felix-felicis]

Bugs: 2 ---- Traci: 1

This week I have three separate bug stories. I hope you guys enjoy :)

1. Yesterday I was at a Peace Corps charla (meeting/talk-thing) and after lunch I decided to eat some cookies and coffee. I was really ecstatic about this decision because the oatmeal cookies were a perfect pair for the coffee. I dipped each cookie in the coffee and swallowed them without a second thought. After all of the cookies disappeared I started drinking my coffee, when all of a sudden I noticed baby black ants floating around. I thought, hmm, that's strange, how did they get there? I asked my friend Kim (one of my site mates) and she was like, "oh yeah, there are ants on the oatmeal cookies". Fml. I definitely ate a bunch of baby black ants...... Bugs:1 ---- Traci: 0

2. I believe I share quarters with a cockroach. I saw him the other day and he popped out like "hey, how you doing?" and I was like "fml, not you again". I'm assuming he's still here hanging out somewhere in my room. He can stay as long as he doesn't try to sleep in my bed. Bugs: 2 ---- Traci: 0

3. Two nights ago I went to the latrine (or the "service", as my family likes to call it). When I entered the bathroom/latrine area and turned on the light I could see dozens of needy little cockroach eyes migrating to the bottom of the latrine, except 1 brave cockroach. I gave it my best death stare and we had a staring contest. The fat little cockroach looked up at me with its' beady little eyes and I finally had to look away. He won. But, then I thought of a new strategy (that I'd never tried before). I decided I'd blow air toward the cockroach. After a few seconds, the cockroach succumbed and slowly and shamefully drifted away! Bugs: 2 ---- Traci: 1 :)

Watch out bugs, I am going to win.

[themancarlos]

Lmfao my aunts name is chilo #chilodontplay #heavyhand #auntproblems #nica #nicaproblems #discipline

[ignomeo]

Nica problems

Running a yellow light & yell 'HIJUELAGRANPUTA' because it was a "do or die" situation.

[versicoloredlenses]

Don't break my heart before I give it to you Don't tell me no before I ask you to Don't say it doesn't fit before you try it on there's too much to lose to be wrong And it feels like there's something here But I wanna see it before it disappears and if there something real between me and you well are we both open to All these possibilities  So many little possibilities Right in front of us Close enough to touch And far enough to have some time to see

All these possibilities  Whoa, these possibilities Are written in the stars We are who we are baby And I can't help but think that possibly  There's possibilities Don't give me hope if there's nothing to this Don't let me in if you're not there What I'm feeling doesn't happen everyday So baby please play me fair And it feels like there's something more Than those crazy little crushes I've felt before When you move in close I can feel the rush And now we're so close we can touch All these possibilities  So many little possibilities Right in front of us Close enough to touch And far enough to have some time to see

All these possibilities  Whoa, these possibilities Are written in the stars We are who we are, baby And I can't help but think that possibly  There's possibilities

("Possibilities" as performed by Freddie Stroma on A Cinderella Story: Once Upon A Song)

HOEMEGED THESE LYRICS AHUHUHUHU

THIS SCENE

TOO GAY 4 MY LYF