Frontier Goes to Nicaragua: Day 1

Long and almost flawless travel day. Heather's luggage was lost! But no worries, it is on its way tomorrow.

After reaching the hostel, we had a brief orientation and then walked to dinner. After dinner we walked to an ice cream shop and practiced speaking Spanish by ordering cones. Then it was back to the hostel for some down time before a long day tomorrow!

Here is first time traveler Liam with some reflection:

Although the day was mostly spent in airports and on planes, the brief time in Granada has been, in a word, incredible. Even just walking to exchange my American currency for the Nicaraguan cordobas was so different from what I would expect for an American or even Canadian city. Seeing the people, places, and things scattered throughout the thin streets was truthfully strange; it was far from anything that I had expected. I'm not sure what to look for in the days to come.

Here is Scotty with some reflections:

My experience so far in the few hours we have been in Nicaragua has been interesting. The experience started as soon as we walked out of the airport and got on the bus. As we started to drive and got away from the small area built up around the airport the third world part of this trip really set in. The people that live here are in such a different ecomomy that when driving by people's "houses" it was some times hard to tell if it was a house or a storage shed. I am excited to help the community in all the ways possible in the days to come.