nica-eh: Hurricane Felix

You have probably heard now that Hurricane Felix hit Nicaragua. It actually hit the north eastern part on Tuesday and did a lot of damage to the communities on the coast. Missionaries who founded NCA are living on the East coast and have lost the roof of their house and many of the things inside due to extremely high winds. Roads are impassable, rivers are high, trees uprooted and crops destroyed. In the words of the missionaries on the east coast; it's a wreck. Please pray for the people living on the coast as right now they are desperate for drinking water, food, shelter, and clothes. The only effects we have seen here in Managua is rain, rain, and more rain.

In spite of the rains, we continued as normal with classes with the exception of moving desks and placing buckets in strategic areas to catch the rain. Our roof is full of holes and so we are doing our best to control the amount of water that comes into the classroom by catching it with buckets. The students thought it would makes for a great math lesson to measure how much water we can collect and in what amount of time. I'm told that we need to wait until the dry season to fix the roof. Until then we just make sure that no books are sitting out overnight where they might get wet and of course we strategically place the buckets in their correct locations.

Today in fourth grade my students shared their country projects with the rest of the class. I must say that the best part was the food that some of the students brought in to share.