Loading...
Start a new Travel Blog! Blogabond Home Maps People Photos My Stuff

AIDS Hike

Sorry for not posting in forever. Its been a hectic week or two here as my time in Granada draws to a close. Now three weeks ago, a woman came to our weekly tuesday night meeting with a proposal to participate in an AIDS awareness initiative happening all over the world. The organization´s...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 26, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

5 year anniversary

Last night at our weekly volunteer meeting we celebrated our director´s 5 year anniversary of working with La Esperanza Granada. All of the current volunteers, about 30, were there, along with the handful of ayudantes and full time employees. Some teachers from the schools and other member of...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 26, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Thoughts

Nothing terribly unusual has happened in the week since I last posted so I will devote this post to a number of accumulating and perhaps entirely unrelated thoughts about my time in Nicaragua. 1. The buses. I take the public bus to and from school every day and therefore get to experience...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 12, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Long Weekend in Ometepe

We had a long weekend for the past 4 days as school was canceled on Friday and Monday due to Labor day which was over the weekend. (My school in particular had no classes today either because... 4 days wasn´t long enough?) For our time off, many of the volunteers decided to head to one of the...

permalink written by  mls12 on May 4, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Quuickly

Just got back from a long weekend on Ometepe Island in the middle of lake Nicaragua. I´ll write a full post perhaps tomorrow but for now I need to take a shower. And call my mother.

permalink written by  mls12 on May 3, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Its not the best system, but its our system

I´ve now completed two weeks of school down here in Granada and can mention some of my impressions. School here is quite unlike elementary school in the United States. All the five classrooms in my school have open doors that are connected by a courtyard area through which the kids are...

permalink written by  mls12 on April 16, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Day to day

A typical day volunteering for La Esperanza Granada is as follows. Everybody in our house, Libertad as it´s known, gets up around 7:30 has some breakfast and leaves around 8:20 or 8:30 for our various schools. (We work in six different schools on the rural outskirts of Granada with around 4-6...

permalink written by  mls12 on April 13, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

First Weekend

Our group of 10 or so heading to San Juan eventually grew to a boisterous 19. After school on Friday afternoon we took an hour and a half bus ride to Rivas and then a second shorter ride to our final destination, San Juan del Sur. Our group was too big to stay in one place so we broke up and...

permalink written by  mls12 on April 11, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

First Week

The first week of school has concluded and it has been quite the wild ride. The students are generally enthusiastic and occasionally absolutely insane, like yesterday when the second grade teacher whos class I work in simply did not show up. Oh well. More about this later. Me and about 10 of...

permalink written by  mls12 on April 9, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Florida: The Coconut State

The city of Granada is a hectic mixture of young and old, Gringo and native. I live in the heart of the actual city and right next to a ritzy tourist strip of shops and restaurants so our North American and European volunteers are fortunately not so out of place. We are luckily within a...

permalink written by  mls12 on April 6, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Viewing 21 - 30 of 93 Entries
first | previous | next | last

Heading South?

Online Spanish lessons with a live personal tutor FairTutor can hook you up with Online Spanish lessons with a live personal tutor. It's pretty sweet! Online Spanish lessons with a live personal tutor www.fairtutor.com
Navigate
Home
Find Blogs
Find People
Find Places
Find Photos
Browse Tags
Make Maps
Write a Blog Entry
search
Login

go
create a new account



   

Blogabond v2.40.58.80 © 2026 Expat Software Consulting Services about : press : rss : privacy
View as Map View as Satellite Imagery View as Map with Satellite Imagery Show/Hide Info Labels Zoom Out Zoom In Zoom Out Zoom In
find city: