Today we got up early! Katie and Jasmyne went with Jeff to the market to buy our lunch food for the week. A local family will cook lunch for us everyday and invite us into their home while we work down the road. Myles and Hannah bought fruit, eggs, and bread at the market and cooked the group breakfast (accompanied by delicious, free Nicaraguan coffee courtesy of Hostel Oasis), then it was off to work. Jeff and Doug lead us through the city and in to the community most impacted by our work, all while narrating Amped's history and fielding questions. At the job site, our main jobs today were sifting dirt for concrete, putting up a fence, and spreading dirt to prep for concrete.
After the work day, it was a quick trip into the city to exchange money, a quick dip in the pool and then off to a canopy zip-lining tour of Mombacho, a nearby volcano. Very cool.
Right now we are eating a home cooked meal at Casa Roja, Amped Headquarters and are going to see a military demonstration around the corner in Granada in an hour.
I had a conversation with Ashlyn before dinner about what we've done so far. This is more or less how it went:
Joe: What's your go-to Spanish phrase?
Ashlyn: Hola como estas? Sometimes its hard to communicate but I pointed to my camera to take took a photo with a kid at the job site and they knew what I meant.
Joe: Coming in to this trip with expectations, what has been most surprising so far?
Ashlyn: How poor the people are here and how many dogs there are just walking around.
Joe: What did you notice walking today? Through the neighborhood on the way to job site? Through the streets of Granada?
Ashlyn: At the job site I was standing in the road and a horse ran by me and then it stopped because it looked like it was about to die. It was a baby horse that was following another horse carrying a person. It was really skinny.
In Granada there are a lot of people who don't really follow the rules. People will walk out in the middle of the road and cars beep a lot and keep going.
Joe: How was zip-lining?
Ashlyn: It was fun. I've zip-lined before in Florida but it was cool to see monkeys. I talked to them.
Joe: Anything else worth mentioning?
Ashlyn: The hostel is cool. The set up is cool with a garden and hammocks. The pool has no roof and you can see the sky when you swim.
Ashlyn: At the job site I was standing in the road and a horse ran by me and then it stopped because it looked like it was about to die. It was a baby horse that was following another horse carrying a person. It was really skinny.
In Granada there are a lot of people who don't really follow the rules. People will walk out in the middle of the road and cars beep a lot and keep going.
Joe: How was zip-lining?
Ashlyn: It was fun. I've zip-lined before in Florida but it was cool to see monkeys. I talked to them.
Joe: Anything else worth mentioning?
Ashlyn: The hostel is cool. The set up is cool with a garden and hammocks. The pool has no roof and you can see the sky when you swim.
Here are some pics from today!
Las mujeres.
Waiting for dinner. Starving.
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