El Shopping Spree
Monday, April 16th, 2007This week took us away from our normal routine of sleeping, eating, and learning Spanish. On Tuesday afternoon, we took a little tour of a nearby town with a volunteer organization called Esperanza. The organization was founded about 8 or 9 years ago to help in the schools. They provide both monetary and volunteer assistance. For example, they pay a local nurse to do weekly rounds at the schools in the poorer communities, they sponsor some kids to go to high school, they work in the schools themselves tutoring children, teaching hygiene, providing physical therapy, setting up libraries etc. Esperanza requires volunteers be here at least two months. They have a few volunteer houses where the volunteers live. I think there are about 35-40 people volunteering right now. We’re thinking about volunteering here or somewhere at some point. We walked back to Granada from the little village and were sweaty, dirty and tired, but it was a great change of pace.
On Saturday, we joined up with Femke (Dutch student) and rented a car and head out of Granada to some neighboring towns, known as los Pueblos Blancos. They used to be strikingly white from the materials they were made of, but now [read on]
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