Words of the day:
regalar- to gift something
chocoyo- parakeet
It's officially my favorite
time of year in Nicaragua: early rainy season. There are often rain showers in
the afternoon, which make for great napping. Sometimes, it even rains enough to
do away with the oppressive heat. Things are getting greener again, and much
more lush, although the Pacific Coast is very behind on rain this year. Even
here in Rio San Juan we're a little light on it; I managed to dry my laundry in
only one day today, practically unheard of.
More importantly, it's high
mango season. The mangoes are so ripe that all over town, you can periodically
hear the heavy thud of fruit making contact with tin rooves. It's the strangest
sound in the world, a thud that should be sinister, but actually marks the
arrival of sweetness. The chocoyos know what's up: they raucously swarm in the
trees, feasting obsencely. As do the
children, who throw rocks skyward and climb up trees, seeking to snare snacks.
Nicaraguans this time of
year become even more incredibly generous than they usually are. Everyone here
is starting to get tired of eating mangos, and pretty much any household that
has a tree is likely to gift you mangoes when you visit. This works out
wonderfully for me, because I can easily eat 5 mangoes or more a day, and while
they are cost about 5 US cents at this point, free is still better. I'm
attempting to eat as many mangoes as possible now so that I won't miss them as
much when I'm back in the states and they're a $1 each for a variety that
cannot possibly hope to rival the sweet tangy wonderful mouth explosion that is
a perfectly ripened mango rosa.
The same goes for avocados:
people are trying to get rid of avocadoes, now that they are all ripening at
the same time and can't be stored. This is again, amazing. Guacamole daily, for
basically free!
Hence the awesome food
stache, all regalar-ed!!
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