Hola mis amigos and familia!
Today was a fun packed filled day! We all woke up bright and early to get a good start to a long day. First, we had breakfast which consists of fruit, granola, and corn flakes the amazing cooks brought us out a spanish version of french toast! the pineapple here is soooo amazing because its so fresh. Then, we headed off into the "muy caliente" sun and volunteered at either the reserve or the schools. Rachel, Evan, Grace, Torri, and Both Ally's went to reserve and Shannon, Corey, Savita, Eilis, oscar, and Karley went to the two schools. At the reserve we all watered plants in the hot sun and a few people got to hang bananas in trees and cut down coconuts from the trees! Evan climbed up a ladder to shake coconuts down and he managed to balance the ladder on the tree! After volunteering, we had an an amazing lunch of rice, beans, and avocado! then we headed off to spanish class. Unfortunately, it was our last day of class but it was so fun because we went to san marco with our conversation teachers and rode a van packed like sardines! In one van there was about 32 people! It was insane how many people fit into one van! then we saw the nicaraguan "wal-mart" interestingly enough, wal-art owns this company. There, we got ice cream from eskimo or a refreshing cold drink or popsicle to cool off from the blistering heat. Getting home from the city was a whole other story! A teacher's husband who drives trucks picked us up and we all rode in the bed of the truck! Although it may be illegal in the U.S, it is such a common way of transportation here. we all bounced around from the bumpy rode in the back and had the time of our lives. At night we had yet another history lesson from chester. He taught us all about the nicaraguan revolution. oh crap, we have to run because they're coming, okay bye!