Three Strikes I'm Out

Tomorrow there is going to be a strike and the entire city is going to shut down. We aren't allowed to go to training because we aren't allowed to leave the square block radius around our homes. Then we will have one more day of training the capital and then, me and the rest of the health volunteers are headed to our "Community Based Training" which is somewhere near the coast. We will be there for almost 6 weeks. During this time, I don't know exactly how often I will have access to the internet. So, for those of you who have enjoyed your semi-regular access to my entries, I'm sorry that I need to now yank it away, potenially for a while. Also, this will decrease the amount of times I am able to upload pictures.

While there I will have a new host family, which will be sad because I have really enjoyed living with the host family I am with now. But, I look forward to another great stay with another great host family.

So it is possible that the strike will turn into a riot, but we certainly hope it won't and I will be sure to update you all as to what happened when I next can. As they say here, Que te vayas con Dios! (I hope that you go with God. And that sort of means, be safe until I talk to you next.)

***The strike ended up being nothing big. I didn’t hear of any problems anywhere in the city much less our barrios. We looked at it like a snow day, popular with Midwestern children, of which there were a handful in my barrio. We sat around missing things as gross as McDonalds and Arby’s. (I would like it noted that I was not among the people who missed McDonalds or Arby’s. I’m liking my plantains, yucca, potatoes, and rice with every meal just fine.)