Happy Mother's Day (again) in Nicaragua! Today is Mother's Day in Nicaragua and they really go all out here! They celebrated yesterday in the schools, inviting all the mothers and performing dances, songs, poems, and serving them treats. The schools were decorated and the students practiced their routines for so long.
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| Private school where we have Access--Edwin decorates as his other job so everything here always looks super nice (and they have the money to do it) |
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| Edwin and his decorations |
Ok and now the public school...
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| Not too shabby, but just wait... |
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| This decoration at the instituto cracked me up. A fake flower (which is commonly used for decorations here since real ones are WAY too expensive) taped on a wall that's filled with graffiti and dirt, oh and there's a broken desk. |
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| One of my Access students singing an English song |
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| A dance to celebrate mothers I guess |
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| This is one of the traditional dances--their outfits were so nice and new :) |
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| Break dancing for moms |
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| More dancers |
Now today, the actual Mother's Day, there is no school. I went to an event today at the "Casa Materna", a place where pregnant women who live far out of town come to stay and receive assistance before they give birth. Some PCVs did some projects there and today was a presentation of all of that and a little bit of advertising to show the community what the Casa Materna is all about. It was pretty neat. Students from the surrounding schools volunteered to help make gardens and an area where the preggers can do yoga. There was also a stove project to build an improved stove which produces less smoke and uses less wood. There were a couple dance performances, a raffle, jewelry for sale (made by the mommas-to-be), snacks, and cake! I invited my Access students to come to check it out to see if there might be some volunteer opportunities. It was great because they practiced their English with some of the other "gringos" aka PCVs :)
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| Some of my Access students |
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| PCVs selling jewelry that the preggers made |
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| 50+ people came :) |
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| Students from the local schools dancing |
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| Jasser won a t-shirt in the raffle |
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| They gave gift bags to the preggers |
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| Yoga so those babies are ready to slide on out |
After the event, we all went out to lunch and celebrated a PC staff guy's birthday and got to eat more cake!
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| PCVs and PC staff: (left to right) Rita (Maternal & Childhood Health), Greg (Environment with Frank), Danny (Past PCV, staff now), Kelli (Small Business), Liz (Maternal & Childhood Health), and me (English, duh!) |
After all the events around town, Jasser and I decorated for our lovely mommas at home.
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| Opening their gifts--chocolates (and a pic of Jasser for my host mom) |
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| Chocolates... |
Happy Mother's Day!
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