Running around...

Hello again,

So it has been quite a few days since my last post.  I've been pretty busy for the last week and half since my cousin went back home to be with family.  The vehicles both broke down and I have spent much of my time physically running around town from the property to Celle Palmado's, to the surf lodge back to the property.  Rinse and repeat.  It's been pretty wild.  My Spanish has been getting a little bit better and I have managed to have some discussions with the workers and the mechanics regarding the work that was being done.  But don't get me wrong, by discussions... I mean I can ask them a few questions and understand one or two words of the response that I get.  It's a crazy feeling not being able to communicate with people... I really took that for granted before I came here.  Anyways, so I've been running a lot lately.  I've been running around town for reasons stated above and not to mention I've been involved in two separate evening foot races on the beach.  The first foot race that I was a part of was against a female american tri-athlete ( I forget her name, but lets call her Lisa for the story) who we met at the hostel on our friends last night in town.  We were all sitting around making interesting conversation when my friend Dave ( the owner and operator of Celle Palmado's ) decided to instigate a foot race between me and Lisa.  She was apprehensive at first and asked me if I thought I would beat her in the foot race... not wanting to lead her on I said

"It's quite possible."

So Lisa and I meandered with all of the other people in our group down to the beach for the foot race.  Dave paced out 60 yards and Lisa and I proceeded to the starting line.  Dave counted to three and dropped his hand.  We both took off, but my second step landed me in a hole full of soft sandy mud and I almost went down.  I got one hand down for my balance and looked up and saw her in the lead.  But it was 60 yards, so I wasn't phased.  I got to my feet and did what I do best, ran fast.  I managed to beat Lisa by a sizable margin and winning one for Canada.

Canada  1            USA  0

The next foot race that I was a part of was against Dave's best friend on the beach outside of Celle Palmados.  This time we picked the solid part of the beach so that no slippage would occur.  This contest was a very even match and we decided to have two races.  I managed to win both races, however this man was also very fast and forced me to bring my A game.  Luckily, I hate to lose.. and managed to get another two wins for Canada.

Canada   2          USA   0

So I'm currently the unofficial foot race champion of Gigante which is pretty sweet in a nonsense sort of way.  Awsome.  Anyways, I've mostly just been working hard for the last week and half so I don't have much to talk about from down here.

From Nicaragua, this is CJAM, thanks for reading.