Day #9 Update [October 21]

Today Dave got to sleep in, up at 6:30am.  He was at Regan’s house (location for Veracruz English Academy) by 7:30am to greet the VEA students for today’s Granada outing. 19 older students (mostly high school aged) and five adults left for Granada at 8:30am.  Dave stayed back for a little while to watch some of Jairos baseball game.  He left after the 4th inning to meet up with the group and Veracruz was up 6-1.  It was the Veracruz champion team playing the Nindiri champion team in a best of seven series.  The players are ages 10-11. 

Ervin rode to Granada with Dave and they met up with Regan and Blanca and the VEA group at Querubes in Granada for lunch.  The students had split up into four groups, with an adult in each group, and introduced themselves to English speakers they met on the square to welcome them to Nicaragua and have conversations in English. 

After lunch (above) they returned to the Granada square as a group and boarded the bus to return to Veracruz.  When they arrived at VEA in Veracruz, most of the younger students were waiting there for them to begin the second part of the day, a trip to Managua.  The bus stopped to pick up some students closer to their homes along the way, and they all went to Sabana Grande Park in Managua.  Regan had some games prepared for the young people and they also split up into boys vs girls and played soccer on the concrete at the park.  It was drizzling the whole time, but not a hard rain.  The group of 41 students and 8 adults went to Valenti’s for a pizza dinner.  After eating, they returned to Veracruz and had the students home by 8:30pm.  Regan, Blanca, and Dave debriefed a bit, and he was back at CasaB by 9:30pm.  Another great day in Nicaragua!