I have not made a post in about a week, this is very abnormal for me. It is not because we have not been having great adventures, more it has been that there have been so many adventures I have not had time to update the blog. Well, finally I am getting an update out. We arrived in Nicaragua Sunday evening. The border crossing was uneventful, but it was exciting to get a few more stamps in the passport. Then we began our classes on Monday!
First day of classes picture!
This is the home of our host family, only two doors down from the school!
As I am making this post, I realize I do not have a picture of the school, nor our teachers yet. This will be a goal for the next blog post.
Our classes (and our house) is just five blocks away from the beach. This is where we have spent most of our free time. It is beautiful!
The beach where we play each afternoon
On Monday the school took us on an excursion to a large 79 foot tall statue of Jesus overlooking the beach and community of San Juan del Sur. Here we took several pictures of the entire beach
Emma and Tyler above the beach
The statue that overlooks the town
Our family at the lookout point over the beach.
On Tuesday the school took us to another beach, but I did not take any pictures, sorry! The beach was beautiful, it was more of a surfer beach as it was more rocky than the beach near our house. Then on Wednesday we went to an Iguana farm and lookout point where we could see the Pacific Ocean one direction and the Lake Cocibolca (or Lake Nicaragua or Lake Granada) with its two (actually three, but we couldn't see the third) volcanoes the other direction. An amazing site both directions
Us in the direction of the ocean
Closer picture of us
From the lookout points we went to see the iguanas. We learned they change colors (brown or green) to best camouflage with their surroundings. Also if their tail gets cut off, they grow an new one. If you cut it off half way - they grow a second tail!
Tyler with an Iguana
Josiah with an Iguana
Emma with an Iguana
Thursday (today) we explored the town. Unfortunately with the political instability leading to a very low level of tourists, many of the places in town have closed down. The situation in the majority of the country is very sad. The news may discuss the deaths (often innocent women and children - including babies) and the protests, but another sad part of the conflict is the many lives that have been ruined with the reduction of tourism and the inability to obtain supplies from the major cities. Many jobs have been lost, many people are struggling as a result. Please pray for the country, it is truly going to take an act of God to help save this country from the direction it is currently going.
This weekend we will be doing some traveling - so stay tuned for the next update (I will try and post more frequently!)
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