 | Kerry and Mike´s Final Travel Blog
2009-07-16, Managua, Nicaragua. By: Kerry20 | | I am sure everyone is devasted to learn that this is the final time Mike and I will be writing in our travel blog from good old Central America. Hopefully it´s a good one.
We last left off in Masa... |
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| tired
2009-07-13, Masaya, Nicaragua. By: Kerry20 | | Kerry and Mike here, after two long days of traveling. Yesterday, we got up at 5 AM in Manuel Antonio to make reservations for a bus to San Jose so that we could get back up to Nicaragua; the first bu... |
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| Nicaragua: The Bat Cave
2009-07-03, Granada, Nicaragua. By: Kerry20 | | Sorry about leaving so suddenly in the middle of my last post. Mike and Shane were prodding me about going to find food before it got too late.
So we ate breakfast at the place owned by the old st... |
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| My Biggest Problem Right Now
2009-07-02, Grana, Nicaragua. By: Kerry20 | | One of the things that I like about traveling is that life here seems to move at a slower, better pace. You don´t have much stress, there´s not much to worry about, and you basically get to do whateve... |
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| Mike Changed His Shirt
2009-06-30, Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua. By: kerry20 | | Kerry and Mike, signing in.
Mike says: we took in a baseball game in rivas on the way to our ferry to ometepe island. it was raucous fun, and extremely hot, as we chose the unshaded 2nd row seats.... |
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 | The Life of the Innocents
2009-06-29, Leon, Nicaragua. By: hreimer | | Today I am overcome by the poverty around me. Before, I knew that the kids I worked with lived in poverty, in unsanitary conditions, with scarce resources and sometimes not enough food. But it was a... |
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 | A Typical Nica Life
2009-06-25, Leon, Nicaragua. By: hreimer | | This morning I went with Carmen (the graduate practicum student here) to visit Yadira and her family. Carmen needed to meet with Yadira’s 14 year-old aunt about some school things, and I just wanted ... |
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| Reporting IN
2009-06-27, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. By: kerry20 | | Mike and Kerry here, giving another update.
Mike says: volcano boarding was quite the experience--wiped out a few times, got a decent head of steam going, and had alot of fun. want to try it agai... |
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| It's Teacher's Day in Nicaragua!!
2009-06-25, Leon, Nicaragua. By: hreimer | | Monday is La Dia de La Maestra (Teacher’s Day). But, since they all get that day off, and we have a conference for the teachers tomorrow, we celebrated today with a big party. The students all sang ... |
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| The people here are so nice...far from hostel.
2009-06-26, Leon, Nicaragua. By: Kerry20 | | Kerry and Mike here, writing our second entry of the trip from up in the northern volcanic lowlands of Nicaragua.
Mike would like to say: sweet trip so far, very informative tours of museums and n... |
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 | Mis Estudiantes!
2009-06-23, Leon, Nicaragua. By: hreimer | | I have to take a minute to introduce you all to my students. They are all so adorable! It’s a big deal here to wear your school uniform, so I’m attaching a more formal pic of each kid. Well, I’ll p... |
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 | My Welcome Back to Nica
2009-06-22, Leon, Nicaragua. By: hreimer | | Seeing the kids again has been amazing. I was worried that they might have forgotten me – after all, it has been two years since I lived here, and they’ve had other students work with them since. Bu... |
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 | Reclaiming Our Student!
2009-06-24, Leon, Nicaragua. By: hreimer | | Today we went to visit Jeniffer. Jeniffer joined the school last year, but has been absent for the last 3 weeks. When I asked the school staff what was going on, they said that her mom had just been... |
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| Just Arrived
2009-06-23, Managua, Nicaragua. By: kerry20 | | Mike, Shane, and I arrived in Managua late last night. We bartered for a taxi (well, Shane did, as neither I nor Mike speak Spanish), and got to the hostel. After not being sure if they´d let us in or... |
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 | End of the trip
2009-01-18, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. By: jlibrarian | | Jessica & I were able to conduct some research for a paper we're writing & we got to help out at the library. We became close with the library staff, Heidy, Noelia, Luis-Carlos...I'll miss them all w... |
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 | Sergio Ramirez
2009-01-14, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. By: jlibrarian | | On Monday night, we were invited to a dinner at Carlos Mejia Godoy's restaurant in Managua (Carlos Godoy is a very famous Nicaraguan singer). We met Sergio Ramirez, famous Nicaraguan author. He spok... |
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| bookmobiles & play days
2009-01-11, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. By: jlibrarian | | On Thursday & Friday, we went out on the bookmobile. We loaded up the two pick-up trucks & made our way to the schools. We went to a school near La Flor on Thursday - Friday we went more inland (tho... |
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 | Granada & back in SJDS
2009-01-09, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. By: jlibrarian | | On Wednesday, we made our way back to San Juan del Sur. We ended up stopping in the beautiful city of Granada (I also visited here last trip). We had a few hours to wander around, after eating lunch... |
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 | Tipitapa
2009-01-08, Tipitapa, Nicaragua. By: jlibrarian | | On our drive back to Managua, we stopped at a small library in Tipitapa. I'm unsure of how the relationship between Jane/San Juan del Sur Biblioteca Movil and Tipitapa began, but it is a very strong ... |
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 | A Day in the Life
2009-01-18, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. By: frankieboy | | Here is a typical day I Nicaragua.
Wake up at 5:30 or 6:00 am (its gets late early here so I like to get up and enjoy the day light hours).
Read for a bit (thus far I have read Three Cups of Te... |
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 | Condo
2009-01-13, San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. By: frankieboy | | Dubai
I thought my site seeing days in Dubai were over but I needed to do shopping so I went to the uniquely named Dubai Mall. At the base of the Dubai Mall is the world’s tallest building called ... |
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 | About to test my sea (or lake) legs...
2009-01-09, San Jorge, Nicaragua. By: fidgi | | I’ve got just about an hour to kill here in sticky, stifling San Jorge before getting some sort of transportation across Lago Nicaragua to Isla Ometepe. Hmm, decisions, decisions… Do I go with my ad... |
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 | News from a new country (Nicaragua)
2009-01-04, Granada, Nicaragua. By: fidgi | | Well, it’s on to Central American country number 5 now, as I briefly skipped through Honduras on a ‘Ticabus’ this morning, and have now made it to Nicaragua. The mosquitoes are nibbling away here in ... |
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