lately.

These past couple of weeks have been some of those weeks where I really wonder how I even remembered to keep breathing. The to-do list kept growing larger and with every pen strike through one thing, five more things were being scribbled below.

But this Monday morning, with muh girl Taylor Swift coming through the speakers, black coffee steaming in my cup and an overly priced (impulse buy) box of Wheat Thins at my side, I feel ready to conquer another week. And my ever growing to do list.

Two weeks ago we had a work team here from the great state of Kansas. They are a team that has been coming to Nicaragua for five years now. Basically, the team partners with a local university here, UCA, and the Vida Joven (Young Life) UCA team to help in their English department. The team helps teach English in the mornings and in the afternoons they have different activities with their English partners. English partners are usually 3 Nicaraguans and 1 gringo (North American) in a group, to help practice conversation in English.

The coolest thing about this team is not only do they get to impact the lives of these Nicaraguans for the week but they also get to help with connections for the Vida Joven UCA team. When the team from Kansas goes home after a week, the Vida Joven UCA team gets to continue in these new friendships and continue to invite students at UCA to their weekly Young Life club and invest in their lives.

What was really fun for myself and my partner in crime (Jen) was the chance to bond with some of the local Vida Joven leaders. They were so thankful that we gave our time to help serve them and we were thankful they allowed us to be a part of such a beautiful week! Below are some pictures from the week with the Kansas team and the Vida Joven UCA team:

The team left on Tuesday of last week and we jumped right into our normal routine of Young Life club on Wednesday! The club theme was Human Scavenger Hunt where all of the Young Life leaders dressed up as different people (sports mom, tourist, pregnant lady, student, business man) and we hid ourselves all over the mall. The kids were broken into small teams and had to find all 7 of us. The winning team got free ice cream! After, we all hung out in TCBY (oh yes, there is TCBY here...and it is delicious.) ate ice cream, played games and heard about Jesus.

Needless to say, it was a pretty amazing, fun filled two weeks but I am happy this week to have some time to breath, catch up on my to-do list and drink insurmountable amounts of coffee.