http://choppoint.org/nicaragua Chop Point's Summer Camp Ministry in Nicaragua | http://campoalegria.com Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:49:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We gringos are starting to wilt on the outside under the heat, but our spirits are high!  We had a great day out yesterday.  Janeth decided to stay around camp and to go shopping in Rivas with our caretaker's wife, Beatrice.  She finally got so hot that she came back ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2008/03/07/school-of-joy/ We had a busy day, but time is short so we will be brief. We left campo at 8:30 am and drove to the city of Granada. It is the oldest city in Central America. We took pongas, or boats, out on the lake. There are about 350 small islands that ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2008/03/06/15/ Today we are working on painting the outside of the dining hall.  Adam may be a little bit color blind so what was supposed to be a dark blue dining hall is now an indigo/purple color.  Purple is supposed to be the color of royalty, so we are just going ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2008/03/04/paint-electricity-and-fire-ants/ Hope you all had a chance to look over the pictures Adam posted to the web. We spent today recovering from our three day camp. We had an easy morning with a long study session and then free time before lunch. After lunch (hottest part of the ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2008/03/03/did-you-see-the-pictures/ Last night Liam and Robin danced to the 80s song "Mister Roboto". Liam was horribly embarrassed, but I have rarely heard such applause. We learned last night that perhaps "Narnia" is a bit too scary to show to 9 year old girls. They kept leaving the dining ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2008/03/02/pictures-posted/ We are now having our second day of camp and all is running smoothly. Janeth has a crew of about 5 Nicaraguan women chopping and slicing all day long in the kitchen. We are all eating well. The 60 campers that we are hosting are having a ball. ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2008/03/01/camp-is-in-full-swing/ Hola Everyone! We almost all made it. Janeth had a slight kerfuffle with her passport at check in. It was going to expire at the end of June and the ticket agents wouldn't let her go unless her passport was good for at least 6 months after her date of travel. ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2008/02/28/we-made-it/ In preparation for our 2008 trip, we thought we'd upload some video from past trips. Enjoy! [youtube jzRCmq3M9tk] http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2008/02/13/getting-ready-for-2008-trip/ We have had a few exciting days site seeing and painting a school nearby the campo that we have adopted. Many of our team members donated a few bucks and bought some new tables for the school children and today they were delivered to the school along with the clothing ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2007/03/11/short-update/ Greetings from Campo Alegria, We have finished a very successful five day camp with the kids from the local school. Why was it successful? The kids arrived to play with and learn from a group of foreigners who they had never met. Our kids responded with maturity ... http://choppoint.org/nicaragua/2007/03/10/finished-the-five-day-camp/