a few more...

here are some more pictures. im not really sure why i cant get them in the order i want but oh well. you´ll see the joys of the womens business... chicken farm. here they killed 22 chickens and i unfortuntely took part in the pulling out the feathers part. yuck! theres also some pictures from our schools festivals...like of the tamales that we sold, our ¨mechanical bull¨ if you will, and one of the cement tables and benches by they playground getting cemented in. we have 3 of them in total... there are also 2 pictures of gringos...or people from the states. the girl, brooke, was on semester at sea with me and then did peace corps in jamaica where she met donny. they have been traveling south ever since january and made it to my town about 2 and a half weeks ago. they have been doing a few educational projects with the kids and women about recycling and composting and will be funding our recycling project soon.
oook, enjoy the photos. happy thanksgiving... eat some extra turkey for me :)

some pictures :)

so here´s my last few months in a nutshell...

This is from the first communion in my town.. there were 9 kids getting their first communion...





These next 4 are from our trip to Nicaragua. The first one is on the lago de nicaragua... anyone want to buy an island on the Nicaragua Lake?? Next you´ll see the absolutely beautiful Laguna de Apoyo... id definitely recommend it if you´re gonna make your way down here. Then you´ll see the active volcano that we hiked up and then sandboarded down. nuts! Finally theres a shot of all of us in Leon. Id def recommend a trip to nicaragua!

so, clearly october and november have been busy as well since i haven´t gotten a chance to update in some time. i will try to get back soon to post some pictures... in october, i spent a week traveling in nicaragua with a few other ladies of tico 18 which was super nice. the rest of the time has been getting some more projects done in my town. we have almost finished the medical center, gotten the playground fenced in and accompanied by some tables and benches, and have legalized the womens group. this past weekend was a school fair where we had a bingo, food sales, a beautyish competition for the kids, and lots of sales of old clothes, plants, etc. they even made a mechanical bull using one of those big metal trashcans. we´ve also had a few dances and soccer tournaments and are planning fiestas for the end of january. so whoever wants to see some bull running, you should come the last weekend in january haha. the women´s association has some businesses that are going well, one being a chicken farm. tomorrow we have to go kill a bunch of chickens, ick. oh and boy and girl scouts has been up and running as well. so all in all things have been really successful recently. theres a lot more to do in these last 6 months (crazy!!) like getting the library up and running, working with the rest of the womens businesses, getting our recycling project working, trying to fight to get a computer lab, and lots more. any ideas are welcomed hahaha.
check back soon for some pictures. also, come visit!