Diriamba

In order to practice taking the bus here, we went as a group with our language facilitator to Diriamba on Thursday the 14th. A town about 40 minutes away. It definitely felt like a city to us. According to the guide book, 35,000 people live there, which makes it a happening place from our perspective. Our village has maybe 2000.  After learning how the bus works, and luckily for us it was practically empty so we had seats the whole time, and seeing where our meeting would be the next day we walked around the town. I am posting a picture of me with my site mates and a picture of a large church in Diriamba.

We went to a few ice cream stores to check prices. It’s amazing how expensive things are once you leave our small town. We don’t even have a place to buy the name brand ice cream. It costs 14 cordobas for 1 scoop! Which is about 60 cents in US but it’s a lot of money when you can buy ice cream in a bag for 4 cents or a scoop of sorbetto for about 23 cents. While in the ice cream store we saw some other aspirantes who were celebrating one of their birthdays. It was great to see them since we hadn’t seen anyone besides our site mates, host families and language facilitators since Saturday morning. We caught up about our host families and living situations. Everyone seemed pleased with their current situation. 

A picture of ice cream in a bag is below.