Hi friends, my fellow Glimpsers’ friends, and family! I’m Kathy and I attend Andrew P. Hill High School in San José. When applying to Global Glimpse, I had two main goals—to become interconnected with more of the world and break any barriers of indifference between Nicaragua’s culture and mine. Today, on “Working Like a Local,” I felt those goals become reality, not only for myself, but for my glimpse family as a whole. Our day started off at 6 AM, when we all woke up with heavy eyelids that only wanted to close again… 😢 and grabbed breakfast—Gallo pinto with bread—on the go to reach El Mercado. By 6:45 AM, our morning as locals was on full blast off! Whether we were working in the dairy or meat or vegetable section of the bustling market, we experienced the rare opportunity of truly discovering the ins and outs of working in a city like Estelí. Our stall-holders taught us how to create smoothies, make a food stand appear more appealing, yell prices to passing customers, cut fresh fruits and the list of activities go on. Simultaneous to diving into the chaotic market culture, we glimpsers also developed relationships with our stall-holders. We discussed how many siblings we had, the music we enjoy, what a habitual day consists of…. Even glimpsers who did not fluently speak Spanish held conversation through hand motions to share our lives. By the time to depart and give thanks arrived, tears and the want of not wanting to leave was inevitable. “Working Like a Local” will forever leave indentations on our lives, because through this day we learned the challenges of business in an developing community but from that the beauty behind being happy no matter what financial status one is in. Today, E1A and I became global citizens. We interconnected and were one with the world. Today, we were not E1A but A1!!!!
CAP update!!
Hola everyone! I’m Yesenia and I attend Independence High School in SJ. Today I had the pleasure of sharing the role of leadership and goals with Kathy. We dedicated the second part of the day to our CAP project, which we start in two days! With a well thought out plan our lovely managers (Lorenzo and David) made, we headed out into the streets of Estelí in groups with different objectives. Group one bought all the materials we needed while three other groups asked for donations from our local hardware stores. Despite some groups’ slow progress, our overall team progress was enormous. We bought most of the stuff we needed, picked up previous donations, got two more donations (we unfortunately don’t know what they are yet), and fixed some meetings with store owners on Monday for possibly big donations!! Our dream team (designing and logistics) have been cooking up a plan that we haven’t been able to get a peek at yet 😡. I guess you guys will have to wait for the results! Happy Early Father’s day for all the dads out there from us glimpsers!
Hey Brianna!
One week left! I hope you make the most of your last week in Esteli. Sounds like you guys have been working hard with all those early 6am starts, but I’m sure the experiences your having are worth it! I miss you and I’ll see you very soon!
Love you,
Silver
P.S. Mommy got a hair cut today!!! And you will not believe how short it is! Haha
Hello global glimpsers,you guys had a busy day working as locals. It’s nice that the hardware stores are willing to donate supplies. Brianna hopefully you yell out prices in Spanish next time we have a yard sale. Take care I love you. Oh and Becky says hi and everyone at work has asked how you’re doing.
Hey claudia i miss you so much…i went to a wedding today with meme and it was really fun…it reminded me of your cousins wedding where we danced the night away…i know you remember your family already calling me nephew the second they saw me aha…anyways i miss you so much i love you take care
Awesome job all Glimpsers are doing and my daughters in particular miss you a lot girls. love mom.
Hey claudia so i didnt have a game today so anyways i went to wedding yesturday with meme and it reminded me of your cousins quince when we danced all night. Anyways i miss you so much i love you have be safe and take care
Okay guys i repeated myself beacause i went on and i didnt see my comment so i thought it didnt post but after i posted the most recent one i saw it so i was confused aha so dont think im weird or anything like that
VIVBRZY!!!! I miss you so much and I´m so glad that you commented on the Leone blog because that gave me the feels and I was the LDD that day so i was the one reading it aloud so really good timing actually. I seriously am debating bussing out to Esteli on my free day to see you omg ahahahah…We just completed our first Community Action Project day (CAP) day and i seriously hope you see this comment. This is literally all ive been thinking about that you need to know I miss you. I love and miss you so so much and have fun for the rest of the trip! Stay brown and try to learn as muchy spanish as you can!! I cant wait to see you in a week! (and btw we missed the warriors parade 🙁 )
Good to see you guys hard at work in the market and on your service project! I am really looking forward to hearing all about tracking down the materials and asking for additional donations. It can be difficult to ask people for their support or to help with a project, but these experiences and skills are invaluable. I’m so glad you had this opportunity!
@Emma-I’m so happy I got a chance to talk to you today! Glad to hear you’re having fun and learning a lot! I love you!
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
Briana…you will now be ready to sell at Las Pulgas…yippee!!