Catarina

Last Sunday afternoon, my host mom Reyna took me to a beautiful place called Catarina. You can see the picture above. The town itself is super quaint and full of artisans. I’ll definitely bring guests here at some point. The lookout point in the picture above overlooks a beautiful lagoon. You can’t see this in the photo, but one of the big volcanoes is just to the right. Far in the distance is the city of Granada, where we were supposed to have our orientation retreat, but didn’t. Hopefully I’ll get to visit there soon. We heard there is an international poetry festival there this week. We tried to persuade Peace Corps into letting us “have class” at the festival, but it didn’t work out. Next Saturday, our training director is taking us for a little R & R that morning instead of our usual training schedule. Looks like we will be hiking a volcano! Maybe it’s the one here. Can’t wait!