Huck and Henna En Route

The last few days we spend here at the beautiful crater lake. We live in a scientific research station that also is a language school.
And yes, we followed our plans and took five days of spanish courses.
Classes started for us on the 22nd, and with a one day break (yesterday, 25th) our last schoolday will be tomorrow.
So far we are amazed how much a human brain can learn in such a short time. The course is very intense and in the afternoons we learn grammar and vocabulary (or/and go swimming). It´s fun doing it together.
There is also one scientist from Finland and one from Germany here (both study fishes) and we also saw some travellers coming through and there are a few other people learning spanish, as well.
Christmas in Nicaragua seems to be very much about getting drunk, swimming with cloth in the laguna, lighting firecrackers (very impressiv) and playing loud “music”.
For us and many others the Station was a refuge from christmas chaos and we enjoyed sitting on the terrace together, enjoying the “holy” time. There even was some german-style “stollen” with marzipan…
So far this christmas was really nice, until we returned to our room, where we found evidence, that somebody broke the window and fished through the broken window for our belongings. We spend the rest of the night with the police and some crime scene technicians, filing a report and listing everything that we lost.
I am afraid to say that a lot got stolen (cameras, all the pictures, computerstuff, one backpack, bicycle tools, poncho, waterpurifier, …).

So big shit here for Christmas, but tomorrow we will continue travelling, heading via Managua for the corn islands.

We are pretty angry now, sad and disappointed, but still we are healthy, in love and happy travellers.

I´m sorry, no pictures anymore for you.