WHAT "BLANK" MEANS TO YOU?

I was walking home from the meeting Saturday night and with what I smelled and heard and felt, it just hit me....THIS is Nicaragua to me.  All those sensations at once just summed it up.  You know how sometimes you have like a deja vu moment with a phrase or smell or sound and immediately, you're transported somewhere? With words, I'm going to try to describe what Nicaragua means to me.

To me, Nicaragua means...

• the smell of fried plantain in the air
• salsa or meringue music transported over the neighborhood Saturday night
• fritanga with friends
• "adios" to everyone on the street
• sweep, sweep, sweep on the sidewalk
• that handsweep down the face when sweating 
• polvera on Sundays
• tropical fruit and palm trees
• constant motion

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