The pupils, 30 percent of whom are foreign, follow the Nicaraguan curriculum but classes alternate between Spanish and English from one week to the next. It was established in 2016 to teach English to local children with the cooperation of US and Japanese NGOs. The school has 170 pre-school and primary pupils. "And I think parents like to send their children here because they don't feel enclosed, they have the necessary space to stretch, run and be children," added the 38-year-old, who has lived in the town for 13 years. Tourists play volleyball on the beach in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, where locals say kids have 'the space to be children' © STR / AFP "We are in a very natural environment, we're four kilometers (2.5 miles) from the center of San Juan del Sur, we're surrounded by mango, almond and plum trees," Jaime Lynn Hunter, director of the Adelante school, told AFP. Two bilingual schools combine formal education with open air classes. While Alty strolls along the beach, tourists lounge on chairs, lie on the sand, play sports or enjoy a dip in the sea. "It's a lot slower pace of life here than wherever they came from," added the 37-year-old mother of two children who study in a bilingual school in the town of 17,000 inhabitants. Her clients "just enjoy the different lifestyle change. "I like the lifestyle of Nicaragua in general, it checks all my boxes for all the outdoor things that I enjoy: the beaches, the hiking, the scenery," said Alty. Many expats first visited as tourists before deciding to stay permanently, while other more recent arrivals were attracted by lax Covid-19 vaccine rules.Īmerican Christina Alty came 10 years ago to surf and has since set up an estate agency. While Ortega's political opponents are thrown in jail or forced into exile - a "continuum of repression," in the words of a recent Amnesty International report - this little corner of tropical paradise attracts foreigners to enjoy its bars, restaurants, whale watching and landscapes. San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific coast 140 kilometers (85 miles) south of Managua on the border with Costa Rica, is an ideal place to retire or set up a business.
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