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100 Kids, 100% Chaos

Ryan tried to start this blog yesterday but couldn’t find the words to describe this past week. Now I am trying and am also at a loss of words. …..But I guess hear it goes…… So we started school at San Igancio on Tuesday morning. When we arrived at the school at 9:00 am there was 40+ kids...

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ryan & debbrial on December 3, 2009 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

San Igancio school registration

This past week went by really fast. I guess it is because we have been really busy settling into Granada, registering for Spanish classes, planning and preparing for the children’s summer school activity group and getting to know the other volunteers. La Esperanza owns a few bikes for the...

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ryan & debbrial on November 28, 2009 from Granada, Nicaragua

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Our 60 guests!!! and A horrible bug

These first pictures are NOT our house, but... It is owned by a Nicaraguan couple here. They have asked us to take care of it while they are in the U.S. until May. We are trying to decide if we should move over there or not. The house where we are living right now is still under contract...

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Shane Perry on November 26, 2009 from San Jose de los Remates, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Shane and Vanessa's Nicaraguan Adventure

Starting our Volunteer work at La Esperanza Granada

You know the saying “When it rains it pours” well here in Central America it pretty much rains and pours everyday. However, for us the sun has been shining for the last few days, not exactly literally though. The Nicaragua-Costa Rica boarder only took 2 hours instead of 4 like last time. I...

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ryan & debbrial on November 24, 2009 from Granada, Nicaragua

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Corn Island

When we were in Matagalpa last month at the Pioneer School, our third day of class the branch office called and asked if we could leave the class go to Corn Island, and get there before the end of the week. Corn Island is on the Carribean coast. (They dont have much corn growing there. Yes, I...

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Shane Perry on November 23, 2009 from Corn Island, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Shane and Vanessa's Nicaraguan Adventure

Corn Island

This is a poorly written blog. I will come back and rewrite some notes to make sense of everything. but if you look at them, more or less they are in this order. Our three week stay on Corn Island, A visit to Luis and Maribel in Juigalpa, Our return to Jinotega where we ate brain and bull...

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Shane Perry on November 16, 2009 from Corn Island, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Shane and Vanessa's Nicaraguan Adventure

Back to the Beach

The last few days have been pretty chill. We have not done much but travel and relax. Sunday we left Granada still with Craig, the 3 Swedish (Emil, Henrik, Pierre) and the Norwegian (Erik). We drove about an hour south to a town called San Jorge where we got a people and car ferry to Isla...

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ryan & debbrial on November 3, 2009 from San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

The race to Granada

The ride from Leon to Granada was fine. We only got stopped once by the police. And before he got done checking our paperwork he opened the van side door looked in the back and saw the 3 big Swedish guys. He quickly closed the door didn’t even finish looking at our paperwork and let us go. Haha....

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ryan & debbrial on October 31, 2009 from Granada, Nicaragua

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Volcano Boarding

In Leon we stayed at the Big Foot hostel which is known for offering Volcano Boarding, of course we signed up. On the tour there were 18 people. We loaded into two Toyota pickup trucks with padded bench seats in the beds and headed out for a 45 minute drive to Cerro Negro (Black Hill) Volcano....

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ryan & debbrial on October 30, 2009 from Leon, Nicaragua

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B and lots of BS

300 Km to Leon in Nicaragua, our next destination. We made it to the El Salvador / Nicaragua boarder pretty quickly on the good paved roads. The boarder crossing was another easy process: check our passports, log the information and pay a couple bucks. We had heard from other travelers that the...

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ryan & debbrial on October 29, 2009 from Leon, Nicaragua

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