My teacher’s name was Carmen. She was a good teacher. I learned a lot by singing, cutting and gluing pictures, and drawing on the whiteboard. Sometimes I got to have ice cream at the morning break. At the school they had a cat named Melly. She was an orange tabby. She liked to jump up in my lap during class.
In the afternoons we would always have a field trip with some people from the school. Most of the field trips were boring to me because there was too much talking.
This is Felipe. He lived in the local park.
This is used for funerals.
These are some of the bad things about the school. The class is 4 hours long each day from 8am to 12pm. It hurts my head to think that long even though we did take a 30 minute break! To get there we had to walk a long time down the busy streets.
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It was hard work! They said I was the youngest student to complete the classes at their school. On the weekends we went to the water park. They had a pet chicken.
We left Granada on Friday to go to San Juan del Sur. It is on the Pacific ocean. We stayed at a hotel call Bahia Azul. It had a green parrot on the roof. Then we visited a beautiful beach called Playa Hermosa.
We found fast snails, sand dollars, hermit crabs and a surfer!
That was my first time swimming in the Pacific ocean!
I also got to watch the sunset and drink a red Fanta.
The next day we drove to Popoyo.
We stayed at The Barrel Hostel and really liked it. We walked a long time but when we got to the end we saw a tide pool. In the tide pool we saw sea urchins, Sergeant Major fish, starfish, and sea hares.
On the beach we saw several turtles that were dead and a puffer fish. The vultures were already eating them and helping to clean up the beach.
I feel so sad about the turtle and puffer. We also saw lots of shells on the beach. -Riley
First, you pick the cacao from the tree. The color must be yellow to be ripe. Next, you have to ferment the pod and pulp. The pulp is where the flavor is. Then you have to dry the seeds. You know if it is ready or not by the sound it makes when you shake it. You also know it is ready by the color of the seed. The inside should be brown. Then you have to roast the seeds. You roast the seeds on top of fire. When they are ready you will hear a popping sound like popcorn. Then you have to peel the seeds. You either smash the seeds with your hand or peel them fast because the seeds are really hot. After that, you have to grind the seeds. The Mayan used a stone pestle and mortar. It takes hard work to make paste. Last, you put seven cups of paste and seven cups of sugar to make sweet chocolate. You have to spin it for fifteen hours. That is how you make chocolate. – Riley
Let me tell you about my amazing day in Granada, Nicaragua. We went to a restaurant where everyone was deaf for breakfast (Café de las Sonrisas). We ordered by pointing out on the menu what we wanted to eat and drink because we did not speak sign language. I had a chocolate pancake. It was powdered sugar on top of chocolate on top of chocolate on top of butter on a pancake. At the restaurant, they also had bunnies. I got to pet the bunnies.
The best part comes next. We hopped on a horse drawn carriage. We saw that buildings that were built in the 1600’s – 1700’s. The horse names are Brown and Jack. I got to sit up front and steer Brown and Jack!
The driver’s friend had a boat. He took us to the monkey island. In the lake they had leeches and bull sharks in the lake water. On monkey island I got to feed 2 monkeys name Lola and I can’t remember the name of the other one.
Later that night we saw a live volcano. It was so amazing!
