Recent posts from: Granada – 06/29/2014


Reflection Day


For our final day together in Granada, we woke up at 7:00 AM. We had pancakes for breakfast. Afterwards, we wrote our final draft letters to our supportive donors. Then, we had free time until lunch, where we were served rice with chicken. We had a final reflection...

2nd & Final Free Day


Today’s Free Day was similar to our first Free Day. We woke up at 7:00am and prepared for breakfast. For breakfast we were served cereal and milk with toast and passion fruit juice for our drink. Half of the group did not eat what was served because they wanted...

CAP day numero 3


Today we woke up at 6 am and prepared ourselves for the third and final day of our CAP project. We headed to El Comedor to have beans and thick-cut banana chips with cream. After, we walked to El Asilo to finish our CAP project. It was a pretty easy day; all the teams...

CAP Day 2


Today we awoke at the early hour of 6 am again to be ready for another day of hard work. Bleary eyed, we went to breakfast and had rice with eggs and a tortilla. After, most of the group walked to El Asilo to continue our tasks while some went to get more supplies....

CAP Day #1


Today was an early wake up, 6:00am. For breakfast we had omelettes with a tamarindo drink. After breakfast half of us went shopping for our materials at the hardware store, and half of us went to El Asilo to begin our project. Within three hours we built a path...

Fun Day #2!


Today was everyone’s second and final fun day! The day begun with a standard 7 AM wake-up time followed by a 8 AM breakfast of a traditional Nicaraguan tamale-like dish. After breakfast, everyone gathered their things and got ready for the first fun activity: a...

A Day in the Life of a Local


July 11, 2014 We began the day at an ungodly hour–5 AM–to get an early start to our day, make it to our patron businesses in time, and fully experience how early a true Nicaraguan’s day starts off. Instead of our usual sit-down meal, our group packed...