Quick May Nicaragua Trip Post

My friend Martin (also a direct next-door neighbor) has started a Christian school in Nicaragua and is hoping to start an emergency medical jungle river ambulance in the future.  I took my first trip with him last August and that story starts here if you want: http://christianbusinessguy.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-i-am-doing-in-going-to-nicaragua.html (read that one and then you can click "newer post" on the bottom left of the page and travel with me through each part of that trip).

Martin, his sister and brother-in-law, and I went to Nicaragua for 3 nights from April 30th-May 3rd so I am going to post a mini-blog about that here.  We spent some time helping to paint the school house - it still needs a lot of work, in fact we don't even have gutters yet.

I spent most of my time trimming and edging plus some ceiling work(left) while Eric spent his time on ceilings(right).




We checked out the large land area the school-house is located on, it was muddy and marshy but beautiful.

Love these trees!

Checking out the land

Beware of mud!

The great thing about what Martin and the team have done is they've treated this school like a startup.  They don't even have the school-house done yet but they are teaching kids already.  They will continue to finish-out the school house as they get donations.  Here are a couple of pics, you can see our shiny new painted ceilings.  The desks are hand-made by workers and they are AMAZING, as Americans we would pay a lot for that kind of quality.  On this trip we also bought a bunch of organizational supplies for the teacher.

Functional school house-converted from a big chicken coop!