Life In The Good Land

The ringing of the bell ceremony for Nica health 63 - WE DID IT!!! We finished our Peace Corps service!! | May 18, 2016

Making a piñata for my going away party out of my used Peace Corps workbooks from training - that is being resourceful! | May 10, 2016 | 5 days left as a PCV

Final laundry day here in Terrabona.... | 6 days to becoming an RPCV

The maps in the office | of it were updated there would be a sticker for my site mate, and 5 others for the regional PCVs

Doña Virginia and Missy | May 2, 2016

My last Nicaragua beach day at Las Pinitas in León | May 7, 2016

After May 14, I would be happy not eating gallo pinto again for a very, very long time | May 10, 2016

The final days in this home | May 10, 2016

Terrabona from above, with Matagalpa to the left and Esquipilas to the right

Day of the cross | May 2, 2016

My counterpart, Maryare, whom I will be very sad to say goodbye to next week. She works in budgeting at the NGO PCAC | May 2016

Nicaraguan billboards | April 2016

Saying goodbyes and visiting rural communities for the last time; I didn’t photograph anybody or any communities because I felt shy. I just wanted to be present and not tied to a camera. I did, however, photograph the ride there. It is too beautiful not to, and the mountains won’t judge me for wanting to remember how they look. Maybe people would have liked that I took pictures. But I already have so many. For the ride these communities look so small, down in the valley. | April 28, 2016

My neighbors | when I come back, the baby won’t be so little anymore! And I hope that her aunt, my friend, will be studying and not caring for her own little one. She told me she doesn’t want to, not yet. At 12, she is at the tipping point between childhood and becoming a grown up, a woman. After May, when will I see the again? | April 29, 2016

When the Kruths came to visit from Nueva Guinea, RAAS | December 2015

One of my favorite Nica foods: güirila

Sacuanjóche | National flower of Nicaragua. Ciudad Antigua, Nueva Segovia | April 22, 2016