http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress News from Graham's world... Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:55:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 We got up quite early this morning in order to check in at Managua Airport - thankfully it's only across the road from Las Mercedes! Check-in took about half an hour, as the security guys checked every other bag that we put through. Anyway, with check-in out of ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=93 We picked up the initial plans for our land today, ready to show to the islanders later on in the day. Traffic was busy around Managua, as always, but we were able to leave Casa Mary Jane approximately on time. We headed south, through Masaya, to the large town of ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=92 After breakfast, myself, Dick and Tony headed into Managua to meet with our architect, who’s sorting out the layout of the land for SIFT’s islands project. We then went on to an ASDA-style supermarket to buy fizzy drinks and biscuits for an event that we’re holding tomorrow on our ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=91 Dick and I had an early breakfast and were then off again in Wyman’s taxi, catching up with some of our sponsor kids and taking photos of the Bluefields schools (and the university, BICU). We had a productive hour before heading back to World Relief. Most of us went to ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=90 After breakfast we got our stuff ready and headed to Managua airport in Tony’s van. It was a typically manic drive through rush hour Managua, but we got to the airport in good time. Our plane left at 10:30am – a Shorts 360, seating about 30 people. ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=89 We had a nice lie-in this morning, waking up at the luxurious time of 7am! I went for a walk around San Juan before breakfast at 8. Afterwards we cleared out our rooms and headed off to the beach resort of Majagual for an hour and a half ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=88 Today we’re leaving Ometepe for a few days of holiday, so after breakfast we finished off our packing. We went to both of the clinic sites to say our goodbyes and also got a final peek at the site progress. It was encouraging to see that the second ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=87 This morning we did the finishing touches down at Las Pilas. Three ceiling went up (myself & Jono did one of the bathrooms) and the whole place got cleaned up. We also brought down medical furniture from the CVC, making the place look like a real clinic. ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=86 Today was our final day on site, and a half day at that. We finished off the estribo work that we began yesterday and then helped the builders as they finally began on the back wall. As always, they worked speedily, and by the time we left at ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=85 Got up at 4am today in order to catch a lift to Moyogalpa (another interesting ride). Ruth & Anagalys were heading up to Managua to get transit visas through the States (they’re coming to the UK for a year to learn English) and I was going to Moyogalpa to ... http://www.grahamknight.org/wordpress/index.php?p=84