The most photogenic face in Nicaragua ... strikes again
Nicholas is a walking movie poster. I took this while he was watching his wife teach students how to make tortillas on a tour for the eco-tourism cooperative in Las Minitas.…
Unveiling is this Friday
These kiddos get to walk into their own preschool, with a bookshelf and books and laminated learning maps and games and supplies for crafts for their imaginations this Friday! Someone from the community in Las Minitas is building 2 doors by hand:…
Hot (and tasty) stuff
A few weeks ago, I learned how to make tortillas in Alcides' house. Or, rather, his wife tried to teach me. Mine was still burnt on one side and an off-kilter circle. They gave it to me to eat with a hard-boiled egg (a first here) and an enchi…
The sour and confusing ... Palmito!
Sitting on the side of a mountain eating the thready stalk of the inside of a palm tree, sweating my face off, I wiped the sweat out of my eye, stuck the palmito in my mouth, savored it and then thought, who thinks to open the inside of a palm tree…
painting done, Opening party next week!
The school is painted! Spent all day Thursday painting the preschool with Sergio, Pedro and two helpers, and left with the blue bottom coat just starting to coat cement. Go us. Go The Friends Project! [www.thefriendsproject.org] Joselito is in th…
A new life, each day
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller Time is moving so fast. Cant' believe it's been like 6 weeks. In another month, I'll have a new life somewhere in South…
The Exorcist meets Mexican telenovela
I taught English the other night and the activity I gave them is to choose to create a horror or action or Mexican soap opera ... or Fast and the Furious and act it out. And then I gave them stuff like a machete and me and a cat and having to sing…
Everyday people - Making our own good news
People are out there making a difference everyday. We just don't hear about them. One important thing we're doing here is meeting them and sharing their stories of how their beliefs, their words and their actions impact their families, the…
5 a.m. Time to make the milk!
Got up at 5 a.m. to bike to a farm with my friends Frankling and Jose Luuis, who works on a milk farm, to drink fresh milk and test my hand at milking a cow. Finally managed to milk a steady stream from a patient one, until Jose Luis (otherwise kn…