I´m here

We got to Managua on Saturday evening after a few longs flights and rushing around various airports. It was a bit of a difficulty even getting to Birmingham airport because of the flooding that was in England.

On the first day we went on a trip to Granada, the old city where we rode a horse and cart and went on a boat trip to see loads of different islands on lake granada. It was amazing and we fed a Spider monkey a muesli bar, which it didn´t like at all.

On the second day we went on a tiny 12 seater plane to Bluefields with just enough room for all the girlies. When we got to Bluefields we ate sandwiches then some of us went to Bluefields town to get food shopping and some of us went to concrete a house. We saw geckos at nighttime on the windows.

The third day the girls started our project, which was to paint the fence in the orphanage garden. We painted one side of the fence then the next day came back to paint a mural of Noahs ark, which still needs too be finished, hopefully later on today, which is day five. We met some beautiful children in the orphanage who we played games with. We played in and out tyhe dusty bluebells and sang Father Abraham and did the hokey cokey, I have some brilliant photos.

In between times on the third day we went to see the rubbish dump and the people living off of it. We saw a pregnant lady carrying a tv on her head. We also went to the feeding project where people make meals for 120 children each day so that the children have food in their stomachs every day.

it´s now the fifth day and it rained all last night so we figured we can´t do our painting this morning so we´ve gone into town and are in the internet cafe.

Hola to everyone
Charli x

7 hours to go!

I've got 7 hours till I go. I've got everything packed and ready apart from my church clothes, now I'm just waiting really.

I'm really looking forward to it but feeling kinda nervous too.

I'm going to try and update here while I'm away so you guys can read it, if I can get to a computer.

See you in three weeks time when I get back


Charli x

Less Than 3 weeks now!

As the title of this blog suggests, it's less than three weeks till my Nicaragua trip and I'm getting really excited.

Last night we had a briefing in Ross On Wye which kinda reminded me of some stuff I have to take with me and helped me to get to know what to expect when I get there. I think I'm pretty well prepared though which is nice to know really. Alse while we were in Ross there was a Nicaraguan celebration where the people who have been before shared with us their experiences, which our group will hopefully benifit from.

We had our official send off at church this morning and were interviewed. (luckily I didn't have to answer any questions) The press release about our trip will be in the Gazette soon which should be pretty cool.

I'll update again soon

Charli x