Por fin!! After about two months of orientation and language school we are finally here in our house in Managua! It is VERY exciting! We arrived last Sunday morning and have spent the week setting up the house and getting to know the different projects Cantera has. It has been very exciting but exhausting at the same time. Cantera has a great variety of projects located all through-out the city and in surrounding towns and rural communities. Right now there are about 10 different projects in which I would love to work! We are hoping to have a better idea of [View Full Entry]

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Well i successflly completed my first week in Nicaragua! It has been a lot of fun but super busy! We are both volunteering and taking classes at Casa Xalteva, so I spend around 12 hours of my day there! Casa Xalteva doubles as a Spanish School for foreigners and also daycare of sorts for local children. I get in at 8am every day; from 8-10am I tutor a great 12 yr boy with his homework. (they have tutoring/homework help for 2 hours each day; if there are enough volunteers its 1 on 1). Three days a week they have a local [View Full Entry]

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I am in Granada for three weeks at language school before we move into our house in Managua. While here in Granada I am staying with a wonderful host family! My madre nicaraguense is an older woman named Nubia. She is super sweet and is always teaching me about the food, the mercados (markets), the culture, etc. Right now in our house its only her and her husband Francisco. They also have a woman (Saida) who comes 6 mornings a week to help with cleaning (they clean their houses here daily!) and washing clothes. We also have many pets! A lora [View Full Entry]

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Arrived safe and sound!! We arrived around midday last Sunday during the last day of a week long festival here in Granada call los Hipicos. Driving into the city alone was quite the experience as people come from all over the country and other countries to take part in this week long celebration (the biggest fiesta of the year!)...and we arrived right before the parade of horses. This consists of about 3 thousand men and women on horseback! Quite the sight! Our langauge school picked us up at the airport and after many detours managed to drop all of us (theres [View Full Entry]

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