Well, this was our last week in Granada before we come home for
Christmas. We are leaving on Tuesday for
an orphanage on a nearby island, Omotepe, to work there for a week and then we
are flying home!
of festivity and celebration, as the school year has come to a close and
Christmas is quickly approaching. We
finished up ESL with a big review game of Jeopardy, complete with candy
prizes. It was a fun way to wrap up the
year and say goodbye to the students. Hopefully we’ll have some or most of them back in January, although the
details of ESL for next semester are still coming together at this point. We really got to know some of them pretty
well and it was fun to just celebrate a semester of good work together.
Another fun part
of this week was the start of the 9-day processional of the Virgin Mary around
the entire city of Granada. They literally take her down from the front
of a cathedral and put her on a huge float and she processes throughout various
streets around town each night. Street
vendors, lights, fireworks, and thousands of people all come together and make
this quite the event. The parade was on
our street two nights ago and it was so much fun walking around before and
after, running into literally everyone we know, it seemed, and taking in all
the tradition and community that surround this event. It was such a snapshot of Latin American
culture.
It’s hard to
believe we are about to head home…that is has been 3 months already. Time has gone by so quickly and relationships
feel much deeper than the short amount of time it has been. We said goodbye to the kids who live on the
street where we do trash pick-up and it was so sad! We told them Merry Christmas (or, rather,
“Feliz Navidad!”) and the good news: that we’ll actually be living on that street when we come back in
January! Our team is moving into the
back of El Puente, the AIM base, where they will just have completed a house
for missionaries to live in. So, we’ll
continue pioneering this experience as we move into a completely new setting
next semester.
I will hopefully
blog once more before I fly home, to tell about the orphanage. Please pray for focus and energy this last
week…that our minds would be present here in Nicaragua, not looking too far
ahead to going home. I am certainly
excited to have a chance to come home, though, and feel blessed to be able to
do that! Looking forward to seeing many
of you!
Can’t wait to see you on your break! Prayers are with you as you pack up and transition back to the U.S. for some r and r and family time. Loved seeing the photos of Thanksgiving and trash pick up community time. Celebrating those great and simple things for the kingdom! Love, Cheryl
Becca!!! how have you been girl? my apologies for taking so long to connect with you! its taken some time getting used to life back at home but i am adjusting well. God is working in me…albeit its definitely in weird ways but im ok with it! =) how have things been in nicaragua? i pretty much miss you becca. i find myself speaking in random accents now and i blame you for it! =) sigh…i hope all is well for you! ive been thinking about everyone! crazy its almost time to head home for Christmas eh? getting excited yet?! well i cant wait to hear from you! im thinkin of you! if i don’t hear from you before then happy Christmas! God bless you.
sylvia
I love getting the blog. I look forward to reading past blogs and seeing all you have been doing in Nig. The pictures are wonderful. You can tell your love for Nicaragua and the people through the pictures.
Love,English