This is my Peace Corps blog. Here's I'll post pictures, hilarious mishaps in the Spanish language, and recipes for cooking beans and rice.

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Peace Corps has given us our sites. This is me pointing to mine, a small town called Jigüina in the central highlands.

I know a few things about the place: it's cool, rainy coffee country by the side of Nicaragua's biggest man-made lake. The town started as a settlement in the 1980s but has grown since then. It´s still small (about 600 people) and is just a few kilometers away from mid-sized city of Jinotega.

The little dots on the map are other agriculture volunteers, scattered around the northern departments in little clusters. I´ll be just 10 km from the nearest aggie, close enough to ride a horse to.

Less than a month till the real fun starts...