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Friday Apr 11, 2008

The final phase

Once I had arrived back from my trek and fully recovered from my illness and bleeding feet the 3rd phase was soon underway. Mine was community - I got Los Lores, a very remote Nicaraguan village. It was probably the most nervous I have felt about all the phases, purely due to the fact that you live with a family for 3 whole weeks and one other person who hardly speak Spanish at all. The actual project was laying pipes, as they had no clean running water; the only thing they had was a river 15 mins walk away, that wasn’t clean and quite dangerous. We had a 2 day bus ride in an American school bus before we arrived at the village, only to be greeted by all the locals. We quickly got introduced to our families and were taken back to theirs, where they fed us and showed us where we were sleeping. I was paired with another lad called Alex, who thankfully knew as much Spanish as me! Within the space of that night, we had such a laugh with our family at learning the language and hearing all about their community that we both felt straight at home. Because we had arrived at the start of Easter, there were also many celebrations that were underway, which were they were keen to get us involved in - they took us to this beautiful part of the river where we swam, went to the church service and then that even had a fiesta where we danced until the early hours. It was an absolutely amazing start to our phase and it was soon to get better.

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