Trip to Granada and Soccer Team

June 21, 2008

I’m moving up the world of water carrying from the well, I made the trip back yesterday with a dry t-shirt. Either I’m finally getting a better grip on life here, or carrying less water in the bucket is working in my favor. Learning the language has been on the upswing as well. My pronunciation is still a little off with most words, but our Spanish teacher gave us a “tongue twister” to practice the rr’s, which are my weakness,

rr con rr cigarro
rr con rr barril
que rapido corren los
carros por el ferro carril

After 4 weeks of working and studying in Sabana Grande, I had the opportunity to take a trip wIglesia la Mercedith the other volunteers to Granada, a colonial city 45 minutes south east of Managua. The trip was fantastic. We spent 3 days and 3 nights in this Colonial city, staying at “Hotel Oasis” a backpacker’s hostel in the city. The heart of the city was filled with brightly colored buildings, a lively Central Park, and streets full of vendors. To the east, the city was lined with Volcanoes and south is the Lago Cocibolca, the largest lake in Nicaragua. The city was the perfect combination of beautiful landscape and tourist attractions.

We spent the days exploring the city, renting bikes, which was great fun for the first few hours, and then they all broke, and swinging through trees on the Mombaco Canopy Tour, which included the sound effects of howler monkeys! We began the morning with a 45 minute off road ride in a Land Cruise through the dense Coffee farms to the heart of the forest in Granada. One of my goals while being here is to visit a coffee farm, and so far this is as close as I’ve gotten!  Although the entire city was picteresque, the most beautiful scenerey was watching the sunset from the top Iglesia Merced. 

Upon arriving back to  to Sabana Grande, we were greeted by a new family member at Matt´s house, Pinto the baby pig.  His family bought Pinto for Matt to have as a mascota (pet) during the summer and he will stay here for them to sell in the fall.  Pinto has already proved to be a great addition to the stories for this summer.  His post is in the backyard, right next to the practice field of the neighborhood soccer team.

Right now, the five soccer teams of Sabana Grande are playing in a community wide tournament.  It´s fun to see the neighborhood pride that each area has.  The team for Los Proyectos was able to use the yellow soccer jerseys that I brought from home.  Considering that they were not even an established team two weeks ago, the jerseys were an exciting step for all of the guys.  The teams range in age from 12 to 23 and the games are held Monday, Wednesday, Friday in the dirt soccer/baseball field in the community.  Los Proyectos lost their first game 4 to 2 but I have a feeling that next week will bring a win for the team.

I´m headed back to the community to make cookies with Maria and her neighbor this afternoon :) !

Hasta Luega!
-Anna

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One Response to “Trip to Granada and Soccer Team”

  1. Alex on June 21st, 2008 2:32 pm

    Hey Anna!
    Sounds like you are having the time of your life!
    Keep on ROCKin n’ Rolin’! :)

    take care! :)
    Alex

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