Please for Support

G’day Friends!

Okay, so our interviews are tomorrow.

I’m writing to ask you all to consider supporting us with the remainder of funds we urgently need in the next couple of days in order to get legal documentation together for our minors (under 18 – there are 8 of them on this tour) and to purchase our return plane tickets. We need in the ballpark of one grand ($1,000). 

Please share with your friends and the like; there ARE people out there who believe in the future of Nicaraguan kids…

Love you all,

Jeddoxo

POST by RENZ: Fisherman's WAR

Lorenzy at Fisherman's Wharf

On Tuesday, we went out to the pier here in San Francisco. The pier is called Fisherman’s wharf. It is really pretty when you are right on the beach because of all the birds and the sunset is to die for. We went to the beach so that we could go ‘busking’ but when we got there, we just wandered around because it was amazingly beautiful and because it was cold.

Lorenzy and Rene, BBoy Dancing

We wandered around on the sand for a while and the guys did a little bit of tricking. Then, we walked slowly over to the pier and started to stroll down it. There were quite  lot of people fishing there so we stood next to them and watched them.

Lorenzy & Rene at Fisherman's Wharf (the pier)

There was an Asian lady and a man that had this strange looking net. It looked interesting and so we went over to them to see what they were doing. When they threw the net into the water, we saw a figure in the water that was dawdling towards us.

When it was close to us, he popped his head above the water and we saw that it was a seal. The guys started making jokes about it such as “Hey, his face looks just like yours!” We just stood there and looked at it. I thought it was weird because it was so close to shore. Then the man pulled the net up and the seal swam away.

We stayed there waiting to see if it would come back. It did come back, but when it came back, it came back with a friend. Another seal. We kept on watching it and they would swirl in the water. My dad was further down and then he said “Here’s another one! There are three of them!”

The Cute little Seal

Once we got bored of looking at the seals, we walked down the rest of the pier. There were people swimming in the water. We took photos and did freezes on the wall. After we had gotten back to the cars we were all really cold.

From the beach, we went to the tricking place and we practiced with Brandon McCuien, a famous tricker that the guys are in love with because he is really good at doing flips in the air. We were there until two in the morning.

The Brien Family with Brandon McCuien, a famous tricker, in San Jose

POST by NEW LIFE member (Sacramento, California)

Easter weekend has always been one of my favorite times to celebrate. Anyone who knows me is aware that I like to celebrate anything and everything. I love the colors during this time, I love the new springtime weather. It is also a time of rebirth and hope. My soul gets a makeover as well.

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POST by RENZ: Just Dance!

Yesterday was Friday, and every Friday is always the craziest day of all because we have school in the morning and at night we have our youth group for the community.

Nica´s are very good at dancing and they love to do it. At youth group, we have different activities that the people can do. We also have competitions and yesterday we had a dancing competition.

The different types of dancing that they could do were break dancing, Latino dancing, or techno.

The week before, we had put flyers out and told everyone about it. Also we had sheets of paper for people to sign up and some people signed up but hardly anybody wanted to. I think they didn’t want to because are shy and nine out of ten people here are guys so they did not have many partners to go with.

The event started out pretty good. We had Alex (the dude that was going to be the DJ) and he had all the music that we wanted or so he said.

We went to a school because we wanted to ask them if they could come and do their independence dance for the opening of the competition. We talked to the director of the school but he said that the instruments could not be used for something outside of school at short notice and that in three weeks they could do their presentation.

We went home and everyone was cleaning the house. I started making dinner but then my dad had just got back from the store and had bought enchiladas for everyone so we ate that instead.

Then we all got ready for the night and made posters for the people that were going to compete.

All of a sudden the power went out and everyone is shouting and screaming. Then, a few minutes later, the power came back on and we were so grateful because youth group was just about to start.

Everyone went outside and the doors to the house were locked. People were swimming in the pool and playing soccer and we were just about to start the competition when the power went out again.

Somebody got cut on their foot from the pool and so my mum had to go into the house and get her ¨medical supplies¨. We were losing our crowd and the only thing that we could do was wait.

Finally the power came back on and so we started the competition.

The first type of dance was break dance. It was only the tricksters/break dancing dudes that participated. Jonny obviously won. He's very good at dancing.

Techno was the second thing and only Rene and Beycker were the only people that danced for that and Rene won.

For Latino dancing a bunch of people danced but only a few got into it.

So far, it was a disaster. When my mum wanted Alex to say something in the microphone, he didn’t do it and so she would have to do it but she doesn’t know that much Spanish so it was a fail.

Some of my sisters and my friends which are twins had done a routine with some other friends of ours and that was really cool because it made everyone excited and it made the night not turn out as bad as it would have been if they did not do their dance routine.

POST by RAF: We're Briens... We Party, Party, PAR-TAY!

Singing "Happy Birthday" to Lorenzy

One day it was Renzy's birthday party. It was the third of may and the party stared at 4pm. Soon the party stared and almost all of Renzy's friends were here.

One poor lad completing a forfeit for his prize

We played parcel parcel to play you have to pas a package when you hire music, we also played musical chairs and danced.

The sack race (these kids don't EVER play party games!)

All night we where dancing even me. Then when the party finished we gave cake to everybody. 

Dancing Queen, only  12...