Our New House

Here are a few photos of our house. The first is what you see when you first enter our home. Our house is like most Nicaraguan homes, long and skinny. Here is the boys’ room. We don’t have a lot of mosquitoes, but enough to warrant the mosquito nets. We don’t want any more repeat dengue fever episodes J Here is a picture of our kitchen, which is like most other kitchens here, except we actually have a few cabinets. Our little stove is off to the left. Our refrigerator is in the dining room, we couldn’t fit it through the doorway to the kitchen. and here is our “backyard”.

Schooltime

The boys have fun with their crayons, here they are coloring the local paper.

Steve walks Zach out the front door and across the street to his school bus. Since we moved farther away from the school, Zach now enjoys a ride on the bus with his friends. This is the view from our front door.

CHIGÜINES

Here are some of the children in the town of Bramadero, with Sarah, in the town where she and her husband, Seth, live (another MCC couple). They don’t have any children of their own, but they do have 20 “adopted” chigüines (Nicaraguan Spanish for kids). Every night Seth and Sarah play games, feed them supper and generally play parent. And just think, there are thousands more chavalos like them here. The amazing part is that the kids never complain.

BOYS

The boys are standing in front of an ad for PEPSI, of which there are thousands here in Nicaragua. They seem to like their ads, Giant-sized. Entire stores are covered with ads for PEPSI, COKE, CORN, and so forth. At least you don’t need glasses to read the fine print!