Nicaragua!

I just got home from a 3 week trip to Refugio Bartola, Nicaragua. I was working as a teaching assistant for a class of undergrads at UCLA. We didn't have internet there (we only had electricity for part of the day too), but I wrote some entries I will be putting up over the next few days. It was an amazing experience- waking up every day to the sounds of birds and howler monkeys, hiking in the rainforest, canoeing down a lazy river, discovering tons of new animals and birds and plants... It's nice to be home and catch up with my family and friends, take a hot shower(!!), and wear clean clothes. But it felt good to not have all the pressures of normal life- constant email access, a never ending to-do list.