From the Managua Airport, we ran into other students part of GMT. Together we boarded a shuttle that drove us ACROSS THE STREET to Best Western.
We unloaded our stuff and then took a taxi down to a mall to get food. This is a video of the taxi ride. The driving in Nicaragua reminds me of the dirving in China. Completely safe chaos. People speed and cut around people and pedestrians walking through the middle of the road but nobody gets hit. It’s a very efficient way of getting somewhere. Once in the bus, Andrew told me his theory on driving without a lot of regulation: that not a lot of people get hurt because everyone is very alert, whereas in the states people expect things to happen a certain way and pay less attention.
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