Author: Adventures

This week I was assigned work in the garden here at Cicrin. We’d had a garden a couple of times when I was younger, a patch of ground about 8ft by 8ft in my backyard, so I figured I pretty much knew all there was to know about gardening. You dig a few holes, pop in a few seeds, cover them up, sprinkle a little water, and let nature take its course, no? No. Not in Nicaragua, anyway. And certainly not when the garden covers more land than a little league baseball field. Here, it looks a lot more like: hack down weeds with a machete, cut more weeds with a hoe, pull up any remaining...

This week of travel was a week of first time experiences:  My first time having a volcano in my back yard, my first time hiking that volcano, my first time having fried pancakes, my first time tying food up to keep the ants out instead of the bears, my first time seeing pigs in a soccer field, my first time seeing a monkey in the jungle, my first time being afraid I was lost in the jungle, my first time seeing an outdoor waiting room at the free socialist health care clinic, my first time translating a testimony, and my first time seeing someone be saved through a house visit.  It...