Lakes, Oceans, and Waterfalls

Last Day of Spring Break
Kaz just came in to tell me he stopped at the local waterfall with some schoolmates while walking home from one of their houses. He was jazzed because they were able to jump from some rocks into the deep pool of water at the base of the waterfall. My first thought was, “Yikes, that could be dangerous.” My second thought was, “Wow, that’s not something Kaz can do back home- what a great way to spend his last day of Spring break.”
Friends
I was just about to tell Kaz that his home-schooled friend had come by to invite him to walk into town when a boy who attends the Friends school shouted up from the street to invite him out. Our new house (or condominium or cabina or whatever you want to call it) is well-located. It has a deck just above the main road, so we can yell down to people who walk by and they can yell up to us. Everyone goes by at some point or another since there is only one main road in this town.
The cabina is right at the bottom of the “School Hill” so we can walk up to the school every day. See my previous post for a drawing and information about the (still very steep) school hill.
Nicaragua II
For visa reasons, we have to leave the country for at least three days every 90 days. During Spring break, we went back to Nicaragua for four days and stayed in the same house as the last time. This time, however, we did not take Spanish classes for four hours every day and instead spent more time on the beach. We also took a side trip one day to Lake Nicaragua and swam in fresh water. We were the only gringos (foreigners) at the lake, and partly stood out because the locals swim in their street clothes. Everyone was curious about us and wanted to talk to us. Kaz made friends with a beautiful local girl named Iris and they played together in the water for hours. She did not speak English, so Kaz had to work extra hard to communicate with her in Spanish. I took a picture of them with the island of Omtepe, deemed by some to be one of the seven wonders of the world, and one of its volcanoes behind them. What a gorgeous sight.
We went fishing again, but this time threw everything back and instead took home six fillets of black tuna caught earlier in the day. At one point, our boat headed toward a huge flock of birds over the water and found roughly 200 dolphins swimming, jumping and racing our boat. What an incredible sight.