Day 8

It isn't every day that you can purchase the DVD of a newly released movie (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) for 75 cents, but you can in Chinandega Nicaragua! One of the businesses that we are working with and we are going to be helping while we are here sells pirated DVD's. Apparently it isn't a big deal here and the copyright laws aren't necessarily applicable. To my right here is a picture of the office for Cause for Hope here in Chanadega and where we are living for the next few weeks. To my side is Jose Maravilla. He is the man in charge of the office here and also the stake president. He is a really cool guy and a great person to have as our point of contact.

We are getting to know the city and we also worked with Erick today. Erick is the guy my group was working with the last few days. The next steps with him are to get him to start keeping some records of what he is doing. He has a list of former customers but that is about it. He really doesn't have any that would serve as a ledger for his costs, prices, or really anything. These records could be very helpful and we're hoping that he'll turst us and start doing it.

Tonight Paul and I went to a typical Nicaraguan restaurant with Jose and a couple other locals here. It was a fun little dinner. I had beef with rice and beans, fried plantain chips and a little avocado for dessert. I didn't order cow tongue but I did try it and it was actually pretty good, the hardest thing to deal with is know what it is when you are putting it in your mouth. They tell me that liver and chicken stomachs are next on the eating agenda. I can't wait...