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permalink written by  joshweight on March 1, 2012 from Granada, Nicaragua
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The jungles of Costa Rica

Well, sorry it has taken so long to get going but we have been too busy having fun and getting to grips with the Central American ways!!! We arrived in San Jose now over a week ago to be greeted by prostitutes on the drive from the airport to the hostel! Nice! Was not all bad though as the...

permalink written by  coopsandbets on September 18, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: We are off to find the wizard!



Avocados

Yesterday I was hungry. It was before school and I hadn´t any food to make breakfast so I decided to stop in the market on my way to the bus stop for some local goods. Now, I´m not a picky guy so I decided to just eat the first thing I saw that looked good. Remember, I was hungry too. So I...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 28, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua



AIDS Hike

Sorry for not posting in forever. Its been a hectic week or two here as my time in Granada draws to a close. Now three weeks ago, a woman came to our weekly tuesday night meeting with a proposal to participate in an AIDS awareness initiative happening all over the world. The organization´s...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 26, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua



5 year anniversary

Last night at our weekly volunteer meeting we celebrated our director´s 5 year anniversary of working with La Esperanza Granada. All of the current volunteers, about 30, were there, along with the handful of ayudantes and full time employees. Some teachers from the schools and other member of...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 26, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua



Thoughts

Nothing terribly unusual has happened in the week since I last posted so I will devote this post to a number of accumulating and perhaps entirely unrelated thoughts about my time in Nicaragua. 1. The buses. I take the public bus to and from school every day and therefore get to experience...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 12, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua



Long Weekend in Ometepe

We had a long weekend for the past 4 days as school was canceled on Friday and Monday due to Labor day which was over the weekend. (My school in particular had no classes today either because... 4 days wasn´t long enough?) For our time off, many of the volunteers decided to head to one of the...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 4, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua



Quuickly

Just got back from a long weekend on Ometepe Island in the middle of lake Nicaragua. I´ll write a full post perhaps tomorrow but for now I need to take a shower. And call my mother.

permalink written by  mls12 on May 3, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua



Its not the best system, but its our system

I´ve now completed two weeks of school down here in Granada and can mention some of my impressions. School here is quite unlike elementary school in the United States. All the five classrooms in my school have open doors that are connected by a courtyard area through which the kids are...

permalink written by  mls12 on April 16, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua



Day to day

A typical day volunteering for La Esperanza Granada is as follows. Everybody in our house, Libertad as it´s known, gets up around 7:30 has some breakfast and leaves around 8:20 or 8:30 for our various schools. (We work in six different schools on the rural outskirts of Granada with around 4-6...

permalink written by  mls12 on April 13, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua



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