Burning Up in Chinandega

After a week of traveling with our friends visiting from MN, we are back in Chinandega. Luckily, everyday we are greeted with the ever constant heat of the sun. I feel like I am back in Arizona, minus the air conditioning. I don´t think there is a moment when I am not sweating. Our vacation was a nice break from the heat and chance to show Nicaragua to our friends. I think that they had a good time here, although the buses were overwhelming and tiring, even for me at times. We visited San Juan del Sur, where we got to visit some beaches that you had to take a dirt road to and were unbelievably beautiful, Granada, including the isletas and the laguna de apoyo, and for Todd, Ben and I, Matagalpa, we got a break from the heat and got to relax in the mountains and visit a coffee plantation. We had an easy week getting back to school, there was no class on Monday because most of the students don´t show up the following Monday after vacation. Then on Tuesday at Jenny´s school they started to strike and my school followed Thursday. The teachers are asking for more money and supposedly it is a nation wide strike, so we will see how long that lasts! Sunday is going to be another exciting day as we are hiking Volcan San Cristobal, the highest point in Nicaragua, with some other volunteers and our friend Javier. We have to wake up at 5 a.m. and it is about an 8 hour day in total! Hopefully we get some photos from the top.