Tech Week Pictures!

Hey guys!! So here are the pictures from Tech Week. I went with 4 other trainees to San Nicolas in the south tip of Esteli. As I summarized earlier, we built an improved oven, played baseball, and got to have some serious face time with several volunteers who are at least a year into their site. Here is Chris and Gerry cutting the chimmney for the stove.

 And me getting filthy while applying the mud mix.

 It's a big stove! You can see the 2 chambers. One is for combustion and the other is for slow-cooking tasks like beans and rice. The measurements have to be much more precise than for the oven though. Definitely felt my ceramics and clay side kicking in! And I broke my feet into my new rubber campo boots.

 And there are cute puppies in the campo too!!

 This is one of the many views from Spencer's site!! Awesome right!?

 One of the farmers we visited with and spoke to about his plot and crops gifted us two chickens. One escaped when we got back to Spencer's and the other trainees chased it up and down the little hill.

 Group photo!! Form front left: trainee Brittany, Alison, Gerry and Spencer, then in the back left is Travis, me, Chelsea, Chris, and Volunteer Brittany. AWESOME GROUP!!!! Made all the difference!

 The baseball field. So we were going to play in the campo field, but the adult team got eliminated so they planted the field with corn. But then they heard that Peace Corps volunteers were going to be coming and playing so they opened the official municipality stadium and closed school for the day for the youth teams to play. Like a reverse Field of Dreams!

 And I got to bat too!! Only girl.

 Another Mirador. The boys are actually pointing out the field where we had just played down in the valley.

 Trainee shot of the Mirador (lookout). Apparently the Hoduran border is all the way way way in the back

 Miguel, the assistant director for Nicaragua, told us not to fall down the drop because it's just more paperwork for him! :)

 So pretty!

 Can you see the baseball field?

Trainees and Volunteers from Las Puertas Tech Week!!