Day 7 ~Nicaragua, San Ramón School

Friday, March 13th:
We had breakfast as usual, very delicious and filled with fruit. My husband will be happy to know that I’m eating my fruits in the morning. After breakfast, we walked over to the school about 50 feet away to see what work Señor Marvin (El Maestro) had going for us. We helped mix cement and began to build another wall. The students watered one side of the wall already built, so the cement would not crumble.

Shari and Mike came at 9 a.m. to pick up Samantha, Brad, Evan, and Britt to go to the University in León. They were selected to go talk to the college students there who study English. The rest of us worked at the building of the school, and at lunchtime we headed back to club Chac. to have lunch and then a siesta. We headed back close to 2 p.m. and found the San Ramón students waiting for us because we had pen-pal letters for them from schools in the States. The kids were adorable, but it was shocking that none of them knew how to spell words properly. They speak well, but it was sad to see 10 year olds not able to spell. The suciecitos really enjoyed doing pen-pal letters. They had an awesome time talking with the kids and helping them. It took some time to pen the letters.

After we were done with the pen-pal letters, we headed to the school construction site, but "unfortunately" the maestro had already left and we had no work to do. Oh well... So, we decided to go see the families for a visit and to say good-bye to them. We found Señora Gloria who was in the fields collecting mangos from the tree. It was so cool to see a girl in the top of the tree tossing the Mangos down to Gloria on the ground.

We came back to the comedor for the dinner that Conchita and Shari brought for us. We had delicious macaroni with some type of cheese sauce and watermelon. There were also rice-filled plantains, but the noodles were the hit of the night. After dinner, we just hung out with the families and played with the kids. Evan, Kim, and I slept at Gloria's house. Gloria's sister was up at 2 a.m. making tortillas to deliver at 5 a.m. We plan to hand out donations in the morning then off to la playa in the afternoon.