Sunday Fun Day!

Throughout the whole trip, the plans for this day were under wraps and all we knew was that it would be a fun day. When we found out that we would be visiting one of the little islands in Lake Nicaragua, the entire group was ecstatic. We could hardly sleep last night,...

Living like a local!

Today we woke up early with the purpose of modeling the life of a local, here in Nicaragua . We started by waking up early to get a very simple meal of “Gallo pinto”, accompanied by a glass of water, which Is what the locals have for most of their meals...

Free Day!

Today was our first day without a certain agenda set for us, and the supervision was something less than we had before as well. Being leader of the day, I had a different experience that I enjoyed very much. This morning I helped Junie and Amy split up everyone into...

Blog FYI – photos come later

Hello GG families and friends! We have been having some technical difficulties with our blogs getting posted every evening, so we are having students post without photos attached. Within a few days of blogs being posted, we are coming through and adding photos when we...

Nuestro dia en el Mercado!

Today’s adventure truly started with our trip to the market. When we arrived at the market we met with Don Rafael who is the Vice President of the board that governs the market. He talked to us about how the market was run and how the people in it sell their...