To Move

Well, following a break downs of pros and cons, and the unanimous and resounding council from family and friends, I have decided to continue with The Journal as a full time writer. I met with Miguel last Friday and after discussing things with him, I accepted the offer and will be moving to Playa Coco sometime soon. I have many things to do now in preparation for the move like finding a new place to live, getting a Costa Rican bank account, get a cell phone and move out of my old place. Fortunately I don´t have much down here so the actually moving process shouldn´t be too bad.

I am both excited and apprehensive about the new job as I really don´t know what to expect from it. The work shouldn´t be too different which is nice, but I will have greater accountability within the newspaper and will have to take more initiative. This, however, is not the part that worries me.

I don´t know if it is unique to the management of this newspaper or a Costa Rica thing in general (though I think the latter), but things are rather disorganized. There always seems to be a bit of a scramble to finish each edition and communication between Miguel and the rest of us is poor at best. He is a nice guy and a good person but he is above all, a businessman. He is always looking for a way to save money and make more and unfortunately this has caused problems for some of the other people with the newspaper. He likes me but he is fickle and so I am nervous that his disposition toward me could change without me even realizing it.

So, I take the job with guarded optimism and I guess we´ll see how it turns out. If things are not going well I guess I can just leave. That´s a nice option to have but hopefully it won´t come to that.

I am in Nicaragua now with Alex Lane and to say the least, it has been an adventurous trip so far. I´ll write about it when I get back to Liberia.