A few things

A few things have happened in the last week that I want to write about. The first was Graduation. The students, parents, and teachers worked for almost a week getting the gym ready for the big day. The night before I stayed up working with a group of them until about midnight, and then I found out the next day that some stayed past 2 o’clock. The funny thing is that the majority of the stuff I was helping with was not even used in the ceremony. Oh well. Nonetheless, I was very impressed with all the decorations. Everything was beautiful, and the students came all dressed up. It was a very important day for them. We had two graduations: one in the morning for primary and one in the afternoon for secondary.
It seemed to me that there were more people for the primary graduation (6th grade) than the secondary (11th grade). I was told that graduating from 6th grade was a very big deal, and that most drop out afterward and never make it to 11th.


Saturday and Sunday, I took a trip to San Juan del Sur with 3 of my Nica friends. Now that school was over and the graduation had passed, we were free to travel a bit. We stayed the first day and night in the city of San Juan del Sur. We played in the waves, and I tried to teach them how to body-surf. They never really caught on, but I think it would have helped if they could swim. That night I taught them how to play “Cornhole” at a restaurant on the beach. I think we played for 3 hours. The place we stayed was only $7 per person. I wish it was that cheap in the States. The next day we met up with Harald and he took us to a more secluded beach about 10 miles south of San Juan. This beach was gorgeous. I almost felt like I was one of the first explorers to find this place, and my ship was anchored in the cove. Unfortunately, I never got the opportunity to surf, but there is always next time. I would have felt bad if I was surfing and my friends were sitting on the beach by themselves.