It is now Thursday and I am exhausted. This week has been busy but amazing. On Tuesday we presented our final projects and individual reflections of our semester. For my final project, three girls and I did our project on homosexuality in Nicaragua. We met a women from the US who is here doing a project financed from a grant creating a coffee shop. What sparked my interest on this topic was I found out that it is illegal to be homosexual in Nicaragua. There is a law forbidding people to be homosexual and promote homosexuality. Can you imagine a law forbidding you to love who you want to love!! So we did some interviews with people from different organizations, and the more people we met the more interested I became in this project. The people we met with were so nice and so open about their lives. Not many people from the US come to Nicaragua, let alone do projects on what it is like being a homosexual. For our final presentation we did a water color painting using the Beehive cooperative´s portrayal of politics using butterflys (its hard to explain unless you´ve seen the paintings)But it turned our amazing!! The night before we presented we had the people we interviewed over for pizza and heard what they thought of it and their interpretations of it. It was a really good experience overall, I learned so much and met so many interesting people! For my personal reflection I wrote a poem about my experience here.
Our history class is finally over, and I definately enjoyed it. Classes abroad are so much better because meeting people, experiences and hearing speakers are part of the classes. I have really grown to love the program and all the people on the program. Thinking about going home has brought alot of mixed emotions. But I do have a week and a half left so I am gonna make the most of it!