Getting out of the Cold

Hi all!

Back on the road again soon. This time I am heading to the lovely city, San Juan Del Sur in Nicaragua!! I took a class over the semester about Nicaraguan health and politics and the end of the semester was suppose to be a trip to Nicaragua as a class. Sadly the trip was cancelled to due safety reasons. The cancellation was considered very unnecessary by some (ie: me) and so me and two other girls from my class decided to go anyway. Simmons has been quite a pain and made very clear their disapproval, but we do live in a free country so I take off on Jan 4th.

When I am there I will have the opportunity to work with optometrist students from Harvard who will be doing eye exams and need translators!! Very excited!! I also will be able to visit the battered women's shelter that was started from the money raised by Simmons performances of The Vagina Monologues (which I will be performing in, in Feb). Right now there is only funds for two women and their children but we hope to raise enough money to expand from our February shows!!

In the process of packing. I am much more relaxed than when I was packing for Chile. I will only be gone for 12 days. Pretty much all I packed was shoes and school supplies for Nicaraguan kids, two bathing suits, and my passport. I am packing so early because I am being kicked out of my dorm tomorrow for the Christmas break. I will be spending some time in Allston at my friend Shira's and working in Boston, then going to New Hampshire for the Holiday, then back to Allston, then off to San Juan, then back to Boston right in time for the spring semester. Think I need a bigger suitcase.

And most importantly, when I walked home from work the other day it took me about a half hour to defrost so I am excited to getting out of the cold.

More later!!