we LOVE today.

Everyday seems better than the last causing us to run up and down the streets yelling "I LOVE TODAY!"

The lack of posting can really only be blamed on three things: constant movement, $6/ hr internet, and perhaps laziness. But here we are, out of Guatemala, through Honduras for a week or two, and now in Nicaragua at El Zopilote, a permaculture farm on Isla de Ometepe. Being a permaculture farm, there is always work to be done, so for 4 hours of work, you get 20% off your stay, be it a camp site, hammock, what have you. We are paying $2 a person, so the 40 cents is really important to us...
ANyway. Ysterday we worked, the manual labor feeling good compared to the lazy days of the Bay Islands where we sat and walked and sat and sunned and went diving and drank some brews... We carried some cement, picked beans, shelled cocoa, ground cocoa into chocolate, and shelled beans. At 1 fresh bread, cookies, and muffins appeared bringing joy to all those who were near (a spread of fresh baked goods, marmelades, and rums are produced daily) making us hard workers feel like our blood, sweat, and tears were justly rewarded. A late afternoon walk through a fairytale land banana plantation with small baby animals at every turn illuminated by that perfect 4:00 light that makes things appear more magical than you could imagine, finished our afternoon. And by finished, I mean it got us ridiculously lost leaving us 4 or 5 miles past our destination and pooped to say the least. Having already walked 4 miles, and it turning to dusk and being lost, I could only hope that a truck full of palm frawns would drive by offering us a bed of leaves to sleep on to drive us back to our farm. Not 5 minutes after having verbalized this to sarah, a plantain truck drives by. We stick out our hands and with the shout of "ARRIBA!" we climbed atop and met Javier, a nice 17 year old boy who loved sarahs blue-green eyes, and made conversation as we dodged tree branches and the possible clotheslining by telephone wires. This is NOT a dream. I LOVE THIS ISLAND.
Today we even managed to find a school to volunteer at, so we walked up and down the streets looking for birds and drawing them, teaching the kids to say "I LOVE TODAY!"