Welcome to the Summer of Our Lives!: A reunion with Amandita and Carolina... and off to Granada!

Sunday, June 14, 2009

A reunion with Amandita and Carolina... and off to Granada!

Bryan-

Last year I got extremely close to two girls at the children's home, and they no longer live there... I cant even describe how much I grew to love these two girls after spending two months with them...so I really wanted to see them! Furthermore, their mother is bad news (one of the girls has fetal alcohol syndrome) and I was worried that they were living with her.

Thank God they are living with their sister and are doing great! I got to go visit them and it was a wonderful little reunion!!!!

(Carolina, Bryan and Amandita)

Today we set off for Granada! We are all set up in our wonderful homestay and already got to take part in a Nicaraguan birthday celebration complete with pizza! We start class tomorrow at 8am!

(Katie, Ashley and Courtney in Granada)

(Here is our first video from Granada!)

(Our Homestay!)

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The first two weeks of our trip will be spent at the New Hope Children's Foundation in El Crucero, Nicaragua! Here we will blessed to serve at this Christian orphanage and school!

For an idea of what New Hope is all about, please visit this website: http://www.newhopechildrensfoundation.org/

Then we will proceed to the colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua where we will take an intensive spanish program and stay with Nicaraguan families! We will also spend much time in and near Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua) as well as on the dormant Volcan Mombacho, which towers over the city!

After a week in Granada we will head to Costa Rica, where we will also take intensive spanish courses... and spend much downtime on the BEACH!

After this fun-filled week some of us will return to the USA, and others will return to New Hope for two more weeks of service...

Then Bryan will be joined by others as he flies down to Lima, Peru... to eventually complete a 7 day trek through the Andes to Machu Picchu!

It will be the summer of a lifetime! Be sure to keep track of our adventures right here!