fieldtrip!

Our morning started off with some of my 1st graders sweeping their class and sidewalk with mops. Meet Ronaldo and Ana Lucia.

As we waited for the bus to arrive, the 2nd graders played on their Nicaraguan jungle gym, which includes the water tower and the flag poles.

Any request to get down or stop doing that is faced with laughter. Even though I knew due to American safety norms I should tell them not to climb up, at the same time I really wanted that photo! Needless to say they were higher, but I took the photo on the way down.

Mehling and Alejandro being cute as ever.

We discovered the reason they call them fieldtrips, is because every once in a blue moon, you actually go to a field. This time, we also climbed the hill that was by the field called Loma de Posintepe.

Two schools went: Elba Zamora (ours) and Epifania.

Yoel and Gato. Unfortunately, even though they had a brand new soccer ball to play with, we didn't have time to actually play a game.

As we hiked up, we discovered very quickly that switch backs must be an American invention as here in Nica they just climb straight up. Who was it that proved the quickest way between two points is a line? Well they took that to heart. And in the humidity and heat, you are sweating buckets by the 3rd step.

The view of Granada from the hilltop, where the kids hung out and ate their bologna and some orange weird oily spread type thing sandwiches on white bread. Matt and I refrained and enjoyed our Pb&Js. (Just in case you're wondering, we do eat these almost everyday. But we cook deliciousness for dinner).

Here's the group of 2nd graders we took (or in the absense of their teachers, Matt's class) and our helper Chilo in the front left, who I am proud to say stands 3 inches shorter than I do. :) Ja Ja Ja as they laugh in Spanish typing.