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...

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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...

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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...

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mls12 on April 6, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Happy Easter!

So I arrived here in Nicaragua yesterday, specifically in the capital city of Managua. I was picked up by one of the only two people who work for La Esperanza Granada fulltime: Felipe, a jolly, rotund Native Nicaraguan with only half an index finger on his right hand. We booked it out of the...

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mls12 on April 4, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

Nicaragua!!

From Liberia in Costa Rica to Granada in Nicaragua – it's not actually that far in distance but as we were to find out they do like to take their time at the border crossing point. Nicaragua is a very poor country especially when compared with Costa Rica. There is political tension between the 2...

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SupandNic on March 23, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Sup and Nic's World Tour!

Bland City

Granada, Nicaragua is the oldest city in Central America, dating back to the 1400s. Im guessing the its not the city's original paint job though. Every building is a wild pastel or a vibrant purple, pink, yellow, green, blue or otherwise a mix of these. Florida colors abound. There is one...

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miltshakenbake on March 20, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Central America

Take me out to the Ball Game, Nicaragua Baseball

It is our last weekend in Granada, Nicaragua and our last chance to absorb its unique culture. Friday afternoon in my Spanish lesson my teacher told me there was a professional Baseball game at the stadium between Granada and Leon, known rivals. He said it was the first of the seven game finals...

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ryan & debbrial on January 15, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

Back to School

We started school again this Monday with almost half of the volunteer group being new. Even though the new volunteers don’t know the kids personalities or the school routine yet so far things have been going really well. I think this has to do with two things: one they are all fresh volunteers...

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ryan & debbrial on January 5, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

Climbing Mombacho Volcano

We returned to Granada a day early because San Juan del Sur was so packed. Instead of spending the last Saturday of our vacation trying to find a spot on “our” previous secluded beach we decided to come back to climb Mombacho, the volcano closes to Granada. Since our summer school program at San...

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ryan & debbrial on January 2, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. While it definitely didn’t feel like Christmas since it is 85 degrees down here and NO Snow in sight. But it was enjoyable just the same. Christmas Eve we had a pot luck dinner with some of the other volunteers. Most of them are all from Europe so we...

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ryan & debbrial on December 27, 2009 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Us Discovering the Latin Americas

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