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Summer School!

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

“Claire, this kid wants to see my bra.”

“That’s great Sarah”

Ah, it’s good to be back in Granada. After a week inter-school term break I got back to Nicaragua to start work on an activity camp organised for all the little ones who fall into the 5-12 age group. But because we’re such stupid softies that age rage was stretched from 2 to 15.

Our main job was to run fun activities for our troop in the community centre next to La Prusia school, one of the schools La Esperanza sends volunteers to. After our usual crazy bus ride we had a ten minute walk through the Nicaraguan countryside with a volcano behind us to reach our place of work.

We usually started our day with some games in the field. We kept trying to go earlier and earlier to avoid the crazy sun (which seems to be much larger and stronger here) but summer in Nicaragua is a hard thing to evade! So we worked through it, came in just before the really little ones looked like they were about to pass out.
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