Friday morning Carl, Leslie, Ben, Kai and Ella picked us up in Nueva
Vida and we stopped by CEPAD to pick up snacks and hop on the bus to
La Escuelita in el Mercado Oriental (Central America´s most dangerous
and drug-infested neighborhood). We took a bus full of
Spanish-speaking preschoolers to a waterpark for the day, and it was
so so so fun to be in the midst of all the kids and to see how excited
they were for something that seemed so simple.
Then we piled back in the car with Carl, Leslie, and the gang to grab
a quick lunch (and some DELICIOUS coffee) and come to Barcelo beach.
The area is beautiful (the house is AMAAAZING - pool, 4 bedrooms, nice
kitchen and bathrooms, workout room) and the back yard backs into the
ocean! So drastically different from our homestay in Nueva Vida. When
I get back, I will have to post video tours of the beach house vs. the
home stay experience.
Yesterday and today we have just been hanging out at the
pool/beach/around town/bartering for jewelry, so the weekend is going
fast! We also found out about a big weekly meeting in Managua for
non-profits and fair trade companies in the area, so I think Robyn and
I are going to try to stop by there Thursday morning to get a little
more context for our project at the co-op.
I will have to write more next week about our family at home and about
the strange happenings at the co-op!
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