Lost in Translation

I don't think that I have ever been more nervous in my life. Today, we went to the Escuela de Normal which Chinandega's college for students that want to be educators. We were to go in and teach some of the first year students lessons that they could one day use for their own students. We decided to use Fruit Loops to teach math. I felt that all the students really liked the lesson. They seemed to understand the concept of using something fun, but concrete like Fruit Loops, to teach a hard concept like multiplication, area of a shape, and less than or greater than. We had so much fun working with them and seeing the difference between their schooling and ours. Even though we were nervous about the language barrier we seemed to get along ok with only a few concepts lost in translation.

We also took a tour of their school which is a good bit different than North Georgia, and we ate lunch with the students. We had a great time hanging out with the super sweet students of Escuela de Normal, and as Megan Kelley would say, we made tons of friends.

The rest of the day we had to ourselves. We all decided to go to the market with Casia (an amigos missionary and super sweet girl) as our tour guide/body guard. The market was a very scary place but with luck and fast walking, we went in and out not buying anything. The others stores though were very nice and we all bought some gifts to take home. I am loving our trip so far. I know I have said it before but Nicaraguans are the sweetest people, and I totally love them. Keep us all in your prayers as we walk through this journey not only that we enrich lives but that our own lives are enriched.
Thank you and God bless!
Heather Harkins