Before coming to Nicaragua I figured that this time would be just as easy as all my other trips out of the country; and now I see how very wrong I was in that assumption. I have never lived in a culture like Nicaragua before. After being here for little more than a month, I have noticed there are many differences, both positive and negative.
In a class I learned of different stages that we and many go through in their time here in Nicaragua. Unlike people that go to different countries for a short term, I have to stay for four months. At first coming here is and was a thrill a new journey in life. And I was excited to just be out of the States – this lasted for about two weeks. A fight stage occurred next. I began to see how things are done here, and how people condone themselves. I didn’t appreciate many of these tendencies or values. I often complained that my food was always the same; the internet didn’t work as fast or at all, and I was tired of being in bed at 8 and lacking any form of independence to go out at night.
As the weeks continued, I got more frustrated with how different things here are. I started to crave more ‘American’ things, like chocolate, Facebook, and the ability to call friends and family back home. I finally realized that my expectations of how things should go were dragging me down not only socially, but spiritually. My negative attitude towards the way Nicaraguans did things wasn’t healthy; especially if I was going to be here for three more months. At home, I like to think of myself as someone that goes with the flow of things, somewhere in my time here, I lost that. I decided that I needed to get back to that place.
No comments:
Post a Comment