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gringos

   This morning, I get to try my hand once again at the Spanish language, and unlike after most of my 30 second spouts this past week, I’ll get a real response instead of a blank stare.  I can’t guarantee…

el fin de santa lucia

                                                                                                                     May 4th I’m not quite sure I’m ready to write this blog.  The title somehow seems too sacred in a weird sense to just waste on any thrown together piece.  After all, I’ve been planning to write this for 6…

lo siento

Having looked through the last 100 Novas blogs and having seen that none of them have been from me, I feel this is as good as a time as any to give you a glimpse of how quickly the last…

bloc de notas

Rereading old blogs is a lot like rereading old journals.  Slightly amusing, somewhat encouraging, very wordy.  Yet how much would we forget if it wasn’t written down.  I have a calendar that has just about everything that has happened in…

tres gringos

At least three times a week, Gilberto, Liana, y yo asistimos a Vida Joven, the Young Life group that meets at El Puente.  Asistir means to attend with no connotations of helping out, and until recently, I felt as if,…

libre

 Here´s the testimony of one of the Vida Joven leaders.  Please consider supporting Vida Joven by sponsoring a runner in the 5K race we are hosting April 10th to raise funds to open a new club across town. Before I…

la carrera

  Granada’s Vida Joven program is completely self funded, generally through selling the bracelets, candles, etc that we make out of jicaro, which falls from a few of the trees around El Puente.  Recently we’ve started making bracelets out of…

fotos

Monday I decided that if I would spend this week being an annoying turist and take non-stop pictures of things that we´re pretty used to seeing by now, then I won´t need to whip out the camera again for quite…