Day 7- Nicaragua

Day 7 -Saturday morning Rigo picked us up and we

said our Goodbye's to our host family.

We went onto our host family in Chinandega

to drop off our luggage.  Then on the road

to see the farm. 

It was late afternoon by the time we got to the farm.

We stopped for lunch and met some of the people Rigo 

ministered in his beginning years as a Pastor.

The entrance to the farm is 

finished.  They used the stone they

found on the land to make the bridge.

The many teams that have come this past

year all have helped get these projects finished.

The cafe and caretaker building.

We had a short visit with a few of our new friends.

Of course we had to try and speak in Espanol.

Rigo would be staying at the farm he would sleep here tonight.

We left the farm and stopped off at the welding school 

where they were storing the corn to be sold.

  We then would return to Chinandega with Georgina his daughter. 

We were going to attend church with our host family 

this evening and share a meal afterwards.
That was a day.

Day 6-Nicaragua

Day 6 would be the last day of class.
We spent most of the morning with our
teachers and then a little celebration.

Rachel with her teacher.

  Mike getting his certificate.

A little singing from our friends

Birthday Celebrations!

 

  Today was a quiet afternoon, Maria Teresa took us
for a little tour.
Across the road was a hotel which she took us to see.
 This place is behind walls and is like a museum.

In the evening we all went for a stroll down to the street
market.

The last day in Leon was a great day!

Day 5-Nicaragua

Day 5 is Thursday November 10

We got up with the morning sun at 5 am.

This is a picture of where we had our class.

Today, we learned how to speak sentences.

?donde es la granja?- where is the farm?

La universidad is grande- The university is big.

La casa es pequena- The house is small.

Los jugos de fruta- fruit juice

We have another activity after lunch,.
the beach,. Mike and Rachel are excited
to go.  I decided to stay back and go shopping
for material with Maria Teresa.

Maria Teresa and I ended up walking all over Leon
and just looking at different things.  She had me
try different fruits that street vendors were selling.

Such as guava fruit, which is kinda like an apple.

The material shop was much different than I had seen
before.  Just a little shop with lots of fabrics, nothing
elaborate as we have in the US.  The three different
fabrics were all under 20.00 dollars or viente.

Mike and Rachel  spent the afternoon at the beach.

It was a great day for everyone.

Day 4- Nicaragua

Day 4 was filled with new things to experience.

We had breakfast at 7 with Maria Teresa and she made us

freir caso with beans and rice along with a fruit drink.

We then were off to learn more Spanish at our class.

This day after our break we got to play  scharade game

with our class.  Of course no speaking English only Espanol.

After class we had another activity we were going to see

hand crafts.  We started out walking but then our leader 

decided to get a taxi taking us to our destination.

This was our friend who introduced us.

These people made many different items on their looms.

We got to watch and then try our hand at the art.

After we said our good bye's we took our taxi back to our home.

 

Day 3-Nicaragua

Day 3 we had class at our home.

Our teachers came to us and we went over items from the

home.  This was also nice as we did a class together with

all our teachers. 

What Spanish words were we going to learn today?

Such as plato which is plate.

As usual we were not allowed to talk in 

English only Espanol.

Then we have Rachel having lunch at the cafe.

After, lunch we were going on an activity
with the rest of our class.
. 

We were going to visit

the Cathedral of Leon

We were getting a tour in Espanol,
lucky for us we had Freddy who translated for us.
.

Day 2-Nicaragua

Day 2 in Nicaragua was filled with lots of new experiences.

We got and up with the warm sun.

  We were dressing for summer. 

Our host served us breakfast at 7 am. 

I learned a few new spanish words at breakfast.

 Cafe con leche, that means we had coffee with milk.

I ended up carrying my spanish dictionary 

with me to the kitchen table, that way I could

talk to my host.
Our first day of school was a day of getting to know the

other students.  Then we were off to individual learning with our

teacher.

This is Soleyda my teacher.

After school we walked back to our host home and 

Maria Teresa would have lunch for us in the cafe.

Then we would have time for practicing our Spanish 

with our host family.

 This is Marcos, one of the sons
of the host family.

November Trip 2011-Day 1

Nicaragua Volcano

We arrived in Nicaragua and our driver Juan Carlos,

was waiting for us.

We then had a Nicaraguan lunch with
the family in Manuaga.  After lunch
we drove to Leon to our final destination.

Cathedral of Leon

We then arrived to our host family where we would
stay for the next five days while we attend Spanish school.

This was day 1 in Nicaragua.