Our day started with an early wake up call at 5:45 am. As usual we went to eat breakfast at Buffet Estelí, we were served gallo pinto with eggs and tortillas. After breakfast we walked to El Mercado el Lazo where we were divided into pairs to help the locals sell their products where we would stay a couple of hours. With the sun shinning bright everybody was either working with packing dairy products or selling fruits and vegetables at the stands. Everybody was trying to sell as much as possible, but with all of the competition it was hard to get customers. However, with everybody’s enthusiastic attitude we caught people’s attention, several of which became customers. As we tried to sell as much as we could we were curious to know as much about the locals and we were impacted by how much they had to work to support themselves and their families. After long hours of working with them we had the opportunity to eat lunch with them. Working with them for a day was an amazing and eye opening experience of how the low amount of rain and global warning affects the locals’ ability to sell their products. After a tiring morning we headed back to the hostel and prepared our lessons for English tutoring. Right after that we headed to tutoring and got to see our students learn more things and see their English get better with every lesson that we have planned for them. When tutoring was over we had a CAP presentation of our ideas that we want for Fundacion Cristal. During that presentation there was a parent, some students, and the directors who gave us feedback and approved of all of our ideas. For dinner we were taken to a new place where we had American food (burgers, french fries etc.). Ending the day we all shared our highlights of the day and as usual shared lots of memorable moments as a group.
Hola Jasmin, gracias por escribir el resumen del día! What a productive day, well done everyone! I am sure you made the day of the locals that work at el mercado El Lazo today! I can hear you all shouting “Limoooooones, limoooooones” o “Pepiiiiiiinos frescos” (great picture!) and certainly making this a special day for everyone! I was glad to hear you are connecting your learnings to your every day experiences! Keep up the good work! So happy to hear your students are improving their English. Great job presenting your plan to Fundacion Cristal, great that you got it all approved ! You will probably be so busy implementing all the ideas, good luck! Mmmmh that dinner must have tested yummy, in case you were all home sick, eh? Gracias y hasta mañana!
P.d. Natilla hoy regresamos a la casa y tu cuarto se ve muy vacío sin ti, ya te queremos ver ! Besitos de papa, mama y Rebecca
Hi Jasmin, thank you for describing a morning in a local farmer’s market. You all worked hard to sell more fresh fruits and vegetables with the local farmers. The more, the merrier! How much did you sell on the morning? Was it enough to cover your lunch and dinner? It must be hard to be a small business owners as there are so many factors that can affect business such as competition, drought and global warming as you mentioned. Glad to see that you put your direct selling strategies into practice.
English tutoring lessons went on very well day by day according to your description. I am looking forward to learning more about your CAP project.
Thank you for your photos. Eric, you look great! I am so happy for you.
Hey Jasmine,
Sounds like you guys had a long day. Hope you guys are doing well over there. Crazy how you guys will be home in a week huh? We all are looking forward for you all to come home. Nothing much happened back at home. Just some chill weather and stuff like that. Taylor swift came through to seattle with Fetty Wap though. But anyways, how did you guys like selling the produces? Did you guys have to speak in Spanish? I hope ya’ll had fun presenting! But for now, have fun you guys! And ya’ll look good in the pics.
Thien Nguyen
Hi Jasmin ❤️ Glad to see you’re having fun and showing off your smile . I miss you so much but at least you’re having fun. Thanks for calling me today. I can’t wait for you to get back! Be safe and have fun while you’re there! Although you’ll be getting up later when you get back, we’ll have school so have fun while you have the opportunity to! I love you can’t wait to see you! Bye princess
Hey Ella! Did your KFC customer service skills pay off in the market? I’m actually pretty curious about how to work like a local in Nicaragua so you have to tell me all about it when you come back! Btw my uncle finally tied the knot yesterday and things got a little crazy so I wasn’t able to check the blog but I just read it and it was such a beautifully written blog! It made me go and listen to drake while pondering about life lol I’m so dramatic but I really do think we have a lot to learn. Ella remember our money rants? I’m guessing we’re gonna have a much more in depth convo when we do that again but that’s pretty much the main point of global glimpse right? To change our perspective? It certainly did for me and I hope it does for all of you! Imy&ily!!!
Hi booboo 🙂
I am sorry i missed your call today.I am glad you left a message. It was good to hear your voice. I was taking a nap! I am back to work tomorrow.
Love your picture. It looks like it was a good day.
How is your Spanish coming along? As good as Italian?
Love you and miss you
mom
Hola Jasmin,
Te vez muy contenta mi reina y que bueno que estes vien y te miras muy vien vendiendo en el mercado cuando te mire me recordaste el mercado de Mexico cuidate mucho m ireina te queremos mucho.❤️
Hey Jasmin, it’s lovely to hear how productive you guys are with everyone. It’s also nice to see how helpful you guys are. We miss a lot! We hope you are enjoying yourself and learning a lot. 🙂