Friday, January 15, 2010

Day 7

Hola fellow blog readers!

Today was another beautiful Nicaraguan day. We woke up to our final delicious breakfast overlooking the wonders of the ocean in San Juan. Then we hopped on a bus and traveled roughly one and a half hours to Jinotepe. The city of Jinotepe is much like our previous destination Managua, but not quite as large. Upon arriving in Jinotepe we checked into our hotel and ventured off road to a local community church. At the local church we were fortunate enough to meet Doug and Julie who are the founders of the Global Orphan Fund (also known as the GO Fund). With the help of Doug, Julie, and another local missionary family we had the pleasure of serving local children lunch from a typical Nicaraguan home. This was a very interesting experience for many of us because not only did we meet many children who come from unfortunate living situations where this meal may have been their only meal of the day (and most definitely their only meal with meat), but we also met the children of the missionary family who at the ages of 5 and 7 were communicating bilingually (which is much more than most of can literally say for ourselves).

After visiting with the local children we ventured back into town where Doug and Julie showed us their newly developed transition homes which offered young adult men and women (around the ages of 18) the opportunity to live in a middle class house as well as pursue their dreams through a quality education.

After our exploration of Jinotepe we headed back to our hotel for a couple hours of rest before our final game against the Nicaraguan National Team. The game took place at a local gym built about 3 years ago and it was definitely the nicest gym we have played in so far and we had a decent crowd including the ladies from the transition home who witnessed their very first volleyball game; but yet again we fell to the Nicaraguans 1 to 3.

After wrapping up at the gym around 9 p.m. we traveled back to our hotel where our chicken, rice, and vegetable dinner awaited us. Then most of us headed off to bed eager for our big day of hiking a volcano tomorrow.

Signing off yours truly Amy Bomgren and Lindsey Smith

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