Hi All,
We have been busy, busy, busy! Last weeks classes went great. We were busy last week creating a blog for the Ometepe Bilingual School. The school runs purely on donations and volunteers, so there is no curriculum. We started a blog as a resource for the volunteers to communicate with each other about what they have taught  each class so everyone is on the same page, and the students will have a more consistent curriculum. Last week we also worked closely with the owner to set up an online donation site and created a letter to be sent to possible donors and volunteers, as well as to Government officials here in Nicaragua and the US. We need more volunteers and donations so we can send more students to University. All these projects will be complete by the end of this week, hopefully!
Yesterday we went for a long kayak ride down the lake to a river that flows through the jungle. We saw lots of cool birds and heard monkeys, but unfortunately we did not see any of the alligators that live there. This weekend we saw the most amazing sunset we have ever seen in our whole lives, and shared a bottle of delicious Rum with some new friends we made! We are meeting up with these friends next week in another city.
Starting this week we have an extra class in the morning with our most advanced students. Also starting  this week we will be observing at the elementary and high schools. We have a bunch of school supplies to donate to the schools! Tuesday we were invited to have lunch with one of the families of a student, and we are excited for that. We have been receiving home grown fruit from a couple of the families, and it is so good! Dan will be going fishing this weekend with one of the families and then we will have a feast with the family. There is a legend that if guests eat Red Fish, then they are destined to come back to the Island, so the family said they are going to feed us Red Fish so we are guaranteed to come back and stay with them at their home!
This Sunday we are hoping to rent a motorcycle and drive around the Island and go to Ojo de Agua, a fresh water spring. This is our last full week here on Ometepe Island. We leave next Wednesday and will spend 4 days on the ocean in San Juan del Sur! We will be staying right on the beach and learning how to surf! After that we go back to Costa Rica for 2 days, fly back to NYC and stay for 2 days, and then we come HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are so excited to see our family and friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will try to post pictures later :)