Category Nicaragua

                                                                                                                     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…

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…

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…

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,…

 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…

  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…

  Yeah- I know.  This is cheating, using Amber´s pic (and only one at that) but hey.  Poco a poco.  Everyone was ready to leave and I couldn´t find the cord immediately and you know.  Plus, I´m not very good…

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…

  While we’re digging through the archives, here’s another that never got finished, partly because we had to go, but also because I just didn’t know where to take it, but especially as this the day before Valentine’s day, it’s…