Recent posts from: Matagalpa1 – 07/18/2014


Last Day Post


Sachit’s Blog Hola from Nicaragua! Today was our last full day in the beautiful city of Matagalpa. It was filled with lots of fun, bonding, running in the rain, last minute shopping, and calls home. We had a relatively leisure wake up time of 7:30, but most...

Fun Day: Toes In The Water


It’s the day that everyone has been waiting for, water day! Though the day may have started off early, all of us pulled through to make one of our last days here in Nicaragua a great one. We started the day off with a two hour bus ride to Volcan de Masaya. Once there,...

Free Day


Ricky’s Blog Today was our last free day of the trip. We woke up at 8:00 A.M., an hour or two later than we usually get up, which gave us more time to sleep. Then, we ate pancakes for breakfast with watermelon, bananas and papaya. Everyone was prepared to go out...

Cap Day #3


Hola Chavalos! Hola amigos y familia! It’s Reyna and Rachel from Dougherty Valley High School, and we were the leaders for the final Community Action Project day. Today was another busy yet fun endeavor in the beautiful city of Matagalpa. We woke up and headed...

CAP Day #2


Saludos a todos! Today was another exciting and eventful day in Matagalpa as we continued to work on our community action project at Los Pipitos. After a delicious breakfast of gallo pinto, huevos, auacate, and queso, we participated in a quick energizer to lift our...

1st CAP Day


(Sorry for the delay–the internet was being repaired at the hostel yesterday.) Today was our 1st CAP delivery which was very exciting. We started off splitting into two groups; one group did the shopping while the others went to Los Pipitos to start organizing....

Cap Presentation Day


Today was an important day for our group. We finished our proposal for our Community Action Project (CAP) and presented it to Los Pipitos. After getting to sleep in until 8:00 am, we had a great breakfast of gallo pinto. Then, we jumped straight into planning for our...