Sometimes it takes fresh eyes to accurately capture a place. Adrianna (left), one of the Dordt students who was here for the last two weeks, wrote this introduction to a reflection on her experience here."What is Nicaragua? It is a country where men hunt iguanas and sell them on the side of the road.
It is colorful houses with walls and gates.
It is cathedrals and Spaniards and colonization. It is civil unrest and unstable governments.
It is a transportation strike for better prices, governmental irresponsibility, and volatile times.
Nicaragua is polluted Lake Managua and pristine
Lake Nicaragua.It is active and extinct volcanoes. It is fresh fruit, sketchy water, toilet paper in trash cans, and people selling things all the time.
It is a land where children greet foreigners with cries of “gringos!”
Nicaragua is poverty and hope; despair and development."
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