Hello family and friends, todays blog is brought to you by yours truly, Lizbeth. Although I’m no politician, I was happy to be lider del day for politics day. One of my jobs was to wake everyone up and lucky for me, my fellow glimpsers are amazing so most of them were up before I was. After we all got dolled up for the day, we went to el comedor to have breakfast and had a little piece of home: pancakes! After breakfast we returned to the hostel and began our program seminar on English tutoring. We got assigned to the groups we’d be teaching, ranging from young kids to professors. Dylan, Kevin, and I are the lucky ones who will be teaching the professors. Before our next academic seminar we played an intense game of ninja. We split up into two groups of ten and the two winners of each game made it to the championship. Dylan and Elizabeth were the first two out and we watched the never ending face off between Crystal and Truong. Eventually Truong became the ninja champion and we moved on to our next activity. We read an article about Daniel Ortega, the president of Nicaragua and let’s just say we didn’t have the best attitude towards the things he’d done in his past, especially Andy. After the seminar we moved on to our next activity, LUNCH.
We had yet another delicious lunch which consisted of breaded chicken, gisado de ayote, and rice. Afterwards we all packed into a public bus wand enjoyed an authentic ride with the locals to Don José Luis Adolfo’s, our speaker’s, house. After a two hour talk with Don Luis, we came to a realization that we all have different opinions, especially Andy. We took the bus back to the hostel and had some free time and had yet ANOTHER seminar about our community action project. But our hard work paid off and we successfully made it to dinner.
After dinner, according to McCall, we had the one of the longest nightly meetings in history. We reviewed the day and it was time for me to pass the torch to Francisco but first he had to earn it by sharing his talent. He decided to tell a story for his talent, and honestly words can’t even describe how good the story was. It would’ve been nice to hear the end of the story but we were interrupted by three geckos trying to eat a moth on the ceiling. We cheered the gecko on and all screamed when he lunged at the moth. It was probably one of the best nightly meetings we’d had. And I expect for them to just keep getting better and better.
Just an FYI, every night we read all your blog comments so don’t stop posting because it’s always good to hear from our loved ones. We are all having a blast In Granada and we can’t wait to tell you all about our spectacular adventure.
Until tomorrow!
P.S. Shout out to Kat and Gaby for helping me out with the blog. 🙂
Yo Liz, Tati and I miss you a lot! Not much is new back at home & the weather has been cold and gloomy since you left (coincidence?), so make sure you’re enjoying your trip to the fullest. Hope all is going well! Stay safe and bring back some Nicaraguan beach sand if you can.
Hi Elizabeth. It sounds like you and your fellow Glimpsers are having a grand time in Granada. I get so excited and look forward to the nightly blog so I can hear about your day’s activities and adventures. So far everything sounds nice and interesting. How’s the weather been lately? I hope it’s mostly sunny and warm. Are you getting to practice much Spanish? I hope you are able to take plenty of pictures and videos..can’t wait to see them when you return! It’s been colder in the Bay Area for the past 2 days, and it even sprinkled a little late this afternoon. Anyway, I hope you continue having great experiences, and I look forward to hear from you one of these days. Miss and love you! ❤️
Love hearing the posts from all of you. So happy for each and everyone for this personal adventure and the adventure you are all sharing together as new friends. The memories you share forever are priceless. I love hearing and seeing pics of all. Kit kat we love and miss you so so.proud of you
Hi Dylan. We are missing you here. Dad is in Cleveland for the weekend for A’s games and the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. James and I are doing our best to keep Candy company :-). It sounds like you guys are having a great time. Can’t wait to hear all about it live in a few weeks. Mom
Kevin, glad to hear you’re having a great trip with some interesting learning opportunities and activities. Miss you and can’t wait to hear what you been up to today. Love you and hope to hear from you soon!!
Hi Gustavo Velazquez
I hope you’re ok and having a great time there.
I miss you so much.
from your mom.
I love you.
your sister Karla say hi
hope we can be on contact by this website or Facebook.
I didn’t receive your call.
we miss you so much
I send you a big hug from your mom.❤️
Good to hear about you guys . Thanks for share your experiences.
I’m feeling a little pressure now with this comment knowing that ya’ll are reading them but happy to hear that you guys are having a great time. Lizbeth you did a great job writing this and I love that you emphasized both breakfast! (with an exclamation mark) and LUNCH (in all caps). Good to hear you are enjoying the culinary aspects of Nica culture. Nice shout out to other members of your delegation at different times as well. Love it!
I get excited to hear about all of you Glimpers adventures! You guys are doing a wonderful thing. I cannot wait to hear about the English teaching goes 🙂
Ps. I miss and love you Kitter <3
Glimpsers*
That sounds fantastic! I hope your trip is sensational, Liz. Don’t let the seagulls eat your school lunch! 🙂
hi my name kalvin, I miss u Phan u r my baby. plz come back to me. we can go eat food when u come back and go late night hiking, and drift and do bad boy stuff. xoxoxo
Glad you’re having fun Elisabeth! We miss having you at home! The dogs definitely do! Enjoy the rest of your trip and we’ll see you soon!