Monday, December 11, 2006
Photos -- Nicaragua works
To get to Isla de Ometepe, which is where Dole makes some of its bananas, we took a boat filled with Fanta. This guy was covered in Fanta by the end of the trip.
My Spanish teacher, Zorayda. On my last day, I took her to coffee at the fanciest spot in town, at Hotel Convento, pictured here. Hotel Convento is owned by a Nicaraguan who currently lives in Miami. He makes himself a small fortune and has invested a lot of that money in Leon, Nicaragua. He's got a fabulous -- seriously cool -- museum with his art collection that includes Picassos, pre-Columbia sculptures and modern Central American art and supposedly he pays a very fair wage.
These two guys told us that they have been working the trash since they were kids.
One of Little Lupe´s creations.
This little girl in Rivas, one of the major transfer cities in Nicaragua, asked me for a cordoba when I said I wouldn´t buy any of her things. I asked if I could take her picture, and she demanded 10 cordobas. We settled on three and this photo. Then she tried to steal my camera. I felt a little bit dirty after that brief encounter.
This is Jimmy. He works the trash and was kind enough to pose for this photo. Alphonso the cabbie was a little uncomfortable by how I was snapping shots of people in the trash.
