Baby Shower

There's a few words and phrases from English that people here use, and one of them is baby shower. One of the teachers at Casa Xalteva, Maria, is pregant, and about to give birth any day. Sarah, our teacher Vanessa (in the picture with the cake) and I went to the market yesterday to buy everything we needed for a fiesta at the school- we got a tiger-shaped piñata (which I learned that women in prisons make and sell to market vendors), and the fixings for tacos with guacamole, beans, cheese, tamales (already prepared in banana leaves), salad and a pink cake that said Felicitaciones on it. Maria thought she was coming to the school for a meeting, but we all jumped out and said Surprise. Jose, a 17-year old who lives at Casa Xalteva, put on some Merengue music and got some of the crowd dancing... including me and Georgina. Maria's other 2 kids also started dancing- the 2 year old was grabbing his crotch and shakin' it. It's going to be sad to leave everyone when I go to Managua, but Granada's only an hour away, so I can visit pretty much anytime... (The other photo is from the Finca Magdalena, the view from our 2nd floor barn room.)