Sobrevivimos!!! Volcano boarding was awesome. Hiking up the most active and largest cinder volcano was just as exhausting as the first time. Looking down 500 meters with a 41-degree slope? Made my heart pitter patter again. Last time I attempted no b…
By the end of the second day of hauling bricks from pile to preschool, soaking them in a barrel, pulling them out by nearly tipping myself into the deep plastic barrel, and then either handing them to the masons or laying them soaking wet around th…
This is day two of construction of the preschool up in Las Minitas. Sergio, our mason, laid the foundation ropes (if that's what they are called) and the guide ropes for the footprint. Guys from the community dug the trenches and foundation ho…
Excited to stay again with Anunsciacion and her family, including little Alfoncina and Fernando, who you likely recognize from the photos from our photo exhibitions as the cutie in the blue cap. I have a new game for us to play, and for Alfoncina…
5 a.m. The ladies start making their tortillas across the street, slapping the mushed corn quickly into rounded flat patties and toasting them on a fire. Whap. Whap. Every day. All day. The first night I wondered if Marta was making some next to…
"I like to ride down the mountain in the back of the pick-up, but I cought with all the dirt and dust. I have a bad pechuga ... from smoking." For what must be the 100th time, Enrique looks at me, smiles, laughs and says, "you have…
If you wondered where your hand-me-downs went, I just sifted through them in a second-hand American store in Managua, finding some pants after my SECOND pair of capris bit the dust in the inferno of Nicaragua in April. Found a pink bathrobe, a bro…
I am have been in El Sauce but the water and electricity has not! So I washed my hair for the first time in four days. But meh, the dust looked fine in it too. More body.…
{<1>} Saved my free day pass for the Delta Sky Club for 1.5 years just for this occasion. Just settled in for nutella, soup, a mini sandwich, carrots, hummus, hot chocolate with nutella in it and a smoothie, and making a few posts, then will…
