Judith (Holland) with Gregorio in the classroom. Judith and I work together as teacher´s assistants in the pre-school. (Again, sorry it´s sideways.)

A group of the students at the school where I work, Elba Zamora, modeling the hats we made in art class. We hold art class there two days a week. It´s a favorite of all the students, as well as mine.

Elba Zamora, named after one of its first and most beloved profesoras, consists of three classrooms: one for pre-school (where I work), another for the first and second grades, and the third for grades four through six.

This past weekend a group of us took a trip to Leon, the second largest city in Nicaragua, north of Managua. Leon is perhaps best known for being home to the nation´s major university, as well as to Nicaragua´s highly revered poet Ruben Dario, and for its active leftist history.
This particular photo is of Becca (Silver Spring), Lizzie (London), and Fenna (Holland) on our way to the modern art museum there. (Sorry it's sideways, I´m still learning.)





This is one of the walls within the cultural center. The graffiti above the roof is a typical sight in Leon, where political murals decorate a great many public and private places alike.

Looking north up the beautiful beach of Maderas, a more secluded surf spot in the popular beach town of San Juan del Sur. A group of us took a weekend trip there, about 2 hr. south by bus. Much fun was had by all.

The facade of the Franciscan church a few blocks away from our house, appropriately named La Iglesia San Francisca. Mass is held there every day at 5pm, and the church connects to a sizeable [former] convent that has been transformed into a cultural museum which includes art from pre-columbian times to the present.

Myself and my roomate Lizzie Dipple heading home on the path that runs up a large hill to la Prusia, the pueblo where we work with the women's cooperative. As Nicaragua is moving towards the height of the dry season, there was a ''controlled burn'' of all the brush along this path the week after this photo was taken- leaving it safer but much less picturesque. The photo was taken by Fiona, the third and final member of out little team for this particular project. In the didtance is the dormant volcano Mombacho.