14 days in and I still don’t know how to use my mosquito net. Nonetheless, 4 days left and I won’t have to try to use it anymore. I started my day at 5:45am and waited to wake up the rest of the delegation (minus Birdie as it was her day off) at 6am. On a usual morning, most of the glimpsers are up before the wake up call, but to my surprise, everyone was still in their rooms under their mosquito nets, asleep (except Victor). At 7am, after a million headcounts, we all headed to breakfast and ate nacatamales with bread and grama juice.
Straight after breakfast, we picked up our handy dandy handy man, David, and then to Escuela Bertha Gutiérrez and finished planting flowers. While Dylan, Crystal, and a couple others where cutting wood at a nearby house-we had to borrow their electricity- the rest of us played a quick game of ninja (our bus driver, Mannuel, slept on the roof of the bus). As the wood was being cut across the street, Min and Victor would bring it over to the school so that we could start sanding it. According to Faven, it was snowing…. snowing wood. Many of us were surprised when the glimpsers across the street, along with David, brought over a freshly built soccer goal post-half of one of our goals for the CAP. We got separated into 4 groups of 5 and cow squads passed us by as we learned the basic infrastructure of a bench. 4 benches later, we had a quick lunch break which consisted of arroz chiño, bread, and jamaica juice. After that, we began building benches again until we reached our final goal of 12 benches-reinforced and all in order to ensure safety for the children-anything for the children. It rained a bit, but we managed to quickly store our benches in a shed so that they are ready for us to paint mañana. Big love to all of the groups-including my own- that did not gets frustrated because building benches is hard, but hey, although we aren’t construction workers, we did great. Our natural Nicaraguan wood, hand-made benches will be available for purchase at Ikea… kidding… but seriously they are the bomb.com.
By this time, David and his helpers had finished another soccer goal post (which sadly fell apart later, but no worries, it was fixed) and we left our extra wood at a nearby house, with permission, of course. When we returned to the hostel, we enjoyed 2 and a half hours of free time before our delicious dinner of spaghetti & meatballs, bread, and Jamaica juice. The laundry man was summoned once again, so we all gathered our clothes as we enjoyed our 15 Córdoba ice cream (big love to Andy for the idea of ice-cream). At our nightly meeting, we reviewed the day and I passed on the torch to Emely, after she told us a quick story. Every one is enjoying their free time until lights out at 10pm. Good night and sweet dreams to every one back home. We love and miss you all. Good luck to Emely and await her blog post tomorrow night.
What an outstanding job you are all doing — all that you are planting and building will be a lasting legacy to the time and experiences you’ve had there — such a wonderful thing. We’re all very proud of you!
Hello glimpsers
Sounds like a day of hard work to help the locals, awarding indeed!The way these families and children must look at you all, with pure gratitude! Spaghetti and meatballs yum, what is this Jamaica juice, that sounds delicious, lol s’s far as I know it could be water that you all gave a fancy name to.
Your journey has inspired so many all around. Reach for the stars as you all shine like the sun in people’s lives!!
Sweet dreams, dream big!
Welp, I’m sorry boba that I didn’t get to post yesterday’s comment on time, I hope you weren’t a sad fuzz ball. But I still managed to post the comment on Cap #1 in case you have the chance to read it. I keep forgetting that you’re an hour ahead of me and I was too caught up with cleaning the car, inside and out, and being a chauffeur to my parents all day long. You’re almost coming home, yay!!!!! Time went by so fast and I didn’t think I would survive but I did! My mosquito bites itch really bad haha. I got frozen yogurt today from yogurtland, you know how much I like frozen yogurt, a lottttttt. Okay, goooooodnight and sweeeetdreamsss!!
Hello Elizabeth and Fellow Glimpsers. I am so proud of you all for working so hard with building and planting! I have no doubt the locals appreciate all your dedication, and I’m sure you will all be missed!
Elizabeth, I hope you are fully recovered and continue to have the best adventure/experience of your life. I am so excited to hear about them and cannot wait to see the pictures and videos. We all miss you and are looking forward to Thursday! I love you ~ Mama
Dear Elizabeth and all the Global Glimpsers,
You all are doing a wonderful job working with your hands to create something lasting for the school and the children of Nicaragua. Elizabeth, when I saw that you braved the rain to plant the bouganvillia, it reminded me of your freshman CHANGE project when you had to plant trees in the rain. Way to GO! Mama and I are so proud of you, Elizabeth, for all that you are doing and also learning how to appreciate how much we are blessed with. It was also so nice to see you smiling face in one of the pics on the blog yesterday and it looks like you have made friendships that can last a lifetime. Remember to keep in touch with everyone. Things have been busy at home and work here. Today, the first group of jazz campers are at Stanford and I’m seeing some of the faculty that I know but I haven’t seen Josh yet. I know you don’t want your time to end there but at least you have jazz camp to look forward to next week! Love Papa and cuddles from the Rubester and little princess Maya 🙂
Hey glimpsers, first off I just wanted to say that I wish I was even half as productive with my days as you guys are… sounds like everyday there is a totally new adventure to help the locals out or learn about the place you’ve traveled to. Liz, I finally finished the script after spending a few long nights at sujus. Yeah Sujus in the summer is really lame, but other than that I just sleep, eat & hang with the cats. Apparently I’m not well enough to run until Thursday, even though I’m feeling much better already. I hope you’re feeling better than you were last time I heard from you. Enjoy the rest of your trip! Really looking forward to seeing you again.
Hey Troung and other Glimpers
Hope you guys are having a great time! Keep it up! Btw, i love your guys’ project, especially the soccer portion of it 🙂
How wonderful! What you guys are doing is going to help the school and the kids in the community. What wonderful idea to provide benches and soccer goals. I am glad that today was pretty dry! I hope tomorrow is successful s well 🙂