This past Friday night I enjoyed a tasty and very satisfying meal of Papa John’s Pizza in an upscale mall called “Las Galerias” (by upscale, I mean it’s a mall that reminds me of a mall in the U.S.) in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital. While in the U.S. I never thought Papa John had “special” pizza when compared to Dominos, Pizza Hut, or any other of the countless pizza chains in the States, but that was before I arrived to Nicaragua. The Nicaraguans idea of pizza is to use ketchup in place of the normal tomato sauce that people in the U.S., Italy and I assume many other countries use as a layer of sauce underneath the cheese. Therefore one of the foods I have sorely missed while serving in Nicaragua has been pizza from the States.
I was in Managua this past Friday night for a Spanish language workshop, which began Tuesday, July 14th and ended on Friday, July 17th. This workshop was intense, where we had Spanish class with either two or one other volunteer and one language teacher who is Nicaraguan. The classes actually took place in the department of Masaya, a neighbouring department to Managua. We had class from 8 am to 4 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and from 8 am to 3 pm on Friday. The Peace Corps paid for our stay Friday night in Managua, since most of our sites are in the north or in Rio San Juan to far to travel in one night.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
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...ketchup, instead of a nice tomato sauce??... that is something interesting...
ReplyDeletehehehe... I like my pizza with spicy sauce and garlic butter dressing...
love you bro!