Hotel Colonnade Managua

... vol met mensenen kwamen er honderden paarden met ruiters door de stad.....en weer was het feest!! Op het plein voor ons huis waren nog andere festiviteiten georganiseerd. Zo kon je in een gladde paal klimmen om geld uit de top te halen....en ook werd er een varken ingesmeerd met olie en losgelaten. Degene die hem te pakken kreeg mog hem houden....wat een herrie!! In de avond werd de feestweek afgesloten met wederom een processie en veel knal vuurwerk.<br><br>Even bijkomen nu!!<br><br>

... to save our life and transfers money within 10 minutes... we run back down to the Western Union office who inform us they are closed for the day.. i beg her to help us out... even shed a few tears for the cause... she says to come back at 7:30 am following day.. we go back to our single bed despondent and did i mention starving.....<br><br>Next morning we are rich again and get the hell out of that town to embark on the slowest ferry ever to the volcanic island ...

... were arts coordinators at a theater program. It was really interesting to talk to them and they ended up inviting up to a sort of ¨University gathering¨ in the middle of a park at the entrance to the town. Nindiri is only a few kilometers from Masaya, so we decided to stay for awhile even though it was already close to midnight and we had been walking since the rally ended at about 6pm. When we got there, there were the university students and then some more local people that ...

... is always supported by these faithful sisters who make up the majority of the publishers.<br> We are doing great here and are going to be sad to leave. But hopefully what we learn down here we can use back home to help our group while we make our plans to be able to come back down for a longer period of time. Thats all for now. Love and miss you all.<br>Neill and Jasmine<br>PS. Neill´s camera isnt working so sorry about the lack of pictures everyone!<br>

... staff friendly. Although one night Bill awoke thinking I was tickling him, he relised it was not me and got out of bed to turn on the light, there sitting on the bed was a rat looking back at him. The rat jumped off the bed and Bill jumped up (apparently taking the high ground to survey the area), eventually Bill the Brave chased the rat our of our room and went with some friends.<br>

Managua finden ja alle sooo schrecklich und gefaehrlich und gruusig. Ich finds gar nicht so schlimm... Ich meine, es ist definitiv keine schoene Stadt, ab** wie gesagt, so schrecklich ists nicht. Drum bin ich auch ein paar Tage hi** geblieben. Man kann schon nicht so viel machen, denn es ist schon sau gefaehrlich. Ich **kundigte die Stadt dann ein bisschen via Busfahren. Da faehrt man dann echt durch extrem arme Gebiete. Man sieht die Armut ...

... so the city was certainly having an intellectual vibe, but we could tell this is not just a passing thing - this seems to be the intellectual center of Nicaragua. We stayed at a beautiful hotel in the center of town, Hotel Oasis. We were allowed to bring our bikes into the hotel and park them in the middle courtyard. The people here are very cool, drama-free and down to earth. A great place to visit...

... covered much of the north central and south and west of the country. We did not visit the Caribbean coast. Parts have been great , others less inspiring. My early experience was colored negatively by the loss of my camera. One thing I do want to mention. While I understand that Ortega has many more pressing issues o his agenda, such as education, water, energy, jobs, and heath care. He also needs to develop a systematic, National program to reduce the ...

... is silly because he can email or call them) and he just said to say hi to Phyllis, but he will probably see her before I do because I think she´s coming on the staff trip that starts the day I fly home. Oh well. Then we went to visit one of the farmer members, Mr. Padilla. He has a model organic farm that utilizes biodiversity and he keeps careful records of everything. He´s a coop leader and teaches other farmers about ...

... As soon as we would stop, though the sweat would roll off of us. We drove to a church way up in the mountains, and it finally got cool. I saw Leaf Cutter ants beside the church. The whole day we saw pigs, oxen and horses roaming the streets. When people are done using them, they just let them go. They wander around until they die. <br> We went to a camp that is being built. It sits on 8 acres and has crops on it, a few rows each ...