Picture Explosion

Blogging has been a bit of a challenge in our training towns because it takes a really long time to upload photos, and let's face it, posts without pictures are just not as fun. Sooooo, since we are in a fancy hotel in Managua today with pretty fast internet, this blog is going to be heavy on the pics and light on the commentary.

TEFL 47 at the Swearing in Ceremony

The new (and only) Leon, Leon volunteers. We are pumped to be serving with Jordan who is in the small business sector.

Adam's host family

The youth group from Adam's town took on an ambitious project to turn this field into a park and picnic area. They planted 40 trees which were donated by the mayor's office.

Lara's town's youth development project... making a carrot shaped piñata. Wait, there is more. The four of us (in the picture below) were invited to be judges at the high school English singing competition (the students have the option of taking a written exam or singing an English song in front of the whole school). The winning team or individual goes on to compete at the departmental level. So, for our second youth group project, we helped the winning team master the profound lyrics of "Man I Feel Like a Woman," which they performed with a choreographed dance at our youth group ceremony.

The Dolores training group- Ryan, John, Elizabeth and me. Ryan was medically evacuated today for a rotator cuff operation.

Lara's host mom

Small Business and TEFL next to the world's largest bottles of Toña, oh and the Pyramids of Giza. You didn't know they were in Nicaragua?

A discussion about healthy relationships


Kicking back at our favorite spot, The Greenhouse. Training is officially over and tomorrow we all disperse to different parts of the country. We are going to miss all of the incredible friends we have made. Hooray, we are real volunteers now and we finally get to live together again!