And here's an update.
We arrived in San Juan del Sur yesterday, the surf town where Emile spent two months earlier this year, and where I spent my spring break. The culture in this town is simply wonderful, and the prices are, too. My fingers are crossed that our opportunities here flesh out well enough to stay for a month or two.
Emile is looking into working with a group studying chronic kidney disease in the region. Nicaraguans differ from Americans in that CKD is more common among men, at least in the studies conducted in the northern part of the country. This study would find if the south corroborates that story. Interviewing subjects etc would be a boon for his Spanish, and the study ends in three weeks - plenty of time to surf, while still accomplishing something solid. I'm pretty optimistic about it!
I am meeting with the English and visual arts school this afternoon, hoping to find that interesting and worthwhile. Ideally, I would get to deal with kids of different ages and see if there's a group I might like to teach in the states. For those of you who haven't been following my disillusionment with journalism, I might not want to follow that path. Teaching was a dream of mine throughout high school (thanks in large part to my English teachers at St. Mary's), and it seems to be resurfacing as of late. Who knows, honestly. I don't feel a need to settle into a decades-long career in one area just yet.
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