La Esperanza

Hi dear everybody!

A little update from Granada.

I moved in my voluntare house last Friday and I really like it! I'm living there right now with only three other girls but at the end of this month all the ten! places will be full. I've got a my one small room with a little bathroom in it. (cold water off coarse...)
La Esperanza(the organization) got two other houses here in Granada. All the voluntares are really nice and they're from all over the world.
There is one streed kid, Louis, and we always give him something to eat. He's a good kid and very funny and the whole street now's him and give him food. But he use glue and it's really sad to see him when he had used it. He's such a little boy!

I started yesterday with my work. Because of the holiday are all the schools close so I work now in a community center until the school start again. The Community center is in a little very poor village "La Prussia." and I have to take the chicken bus everyday to get there. We are working there with five voluntares and we play games with the kids from La Prussia the whole morning. The kids ages various from 2 until 9 and they are all great but super active! Most of these kids don't get any love or attention at home, they have to take care for their siblings or they have to work. We give them a change to play and we give them lunch everyday. (rice and beans) Its great work but really exhausting!

Last weekend I was so sunburned. I couldn't sleep for days! I went with two friends from my spanish lesson to laguna de Apollo, a great lake by the volcano Apollo. We went to a privat beach were they had a nice restaurant, driving vlot and kayaks. We spend there the whole day and my super white winter skin is definitely not use to the agressive Nicaraguan sun.. But i've got five months to get a tint.:)

Adios Amigos!

love, Nienke