Recent posts from: Esteli – 07/21/2013


Fun Day #2


Hi Everyone, Today was Sunday Fun Day. We woke up at 6:00 am and had to travel in a bus for three hours in order to get to our first destination the Masaya Volcano! The volcano was huge and filled with smoke so it was hard to see inside, meaning it was still active!...

Relaxing Like A Local


Hello Glimpser Families, My name is Janise “Jay” Powell and I attend James Logan High School. Saturday was a day filled with joy, laughter and competition. We walked to a nearby high school, where we played futbol (soccer) against and with the other Esteli...

Working Like a Local


For working like a local day, we headed to La Granacha, a co-op community  near Esteli!  Today we learned how to milk cows, make tortillas, and grind coffee, and we also swam below the waterfall at Estanzuela. I thought milking cows would be easy and interesting...

Picture Reminder


Hey everyone! Just a reminder that, because of tech issues here, we are posting pictures to the google doc!  Check them out every day here: https://drive.google.com/a/es-impact.org/?tab=mo#folders/0B7-LBOTXSFNdZ1g4NW1vdFE4d28 Enjoy!

Global Business Day


Today, we went to a cigar factory to see the processes of making cigars. Before entering the factory, I was really excited because I had never seen the actual cigar manufacturing.  In an attempt to be cognizant of how to make the cigars by utilizing tobaccos, I...

Living on $1 a Day


We had an early start today at 5:30AM because we spent the first half of the day with friendly families in a beautiful community, Lapita, Miraflor.  Each student went with a partner to talk to, work with, and have lunch with a family living there.  My partner Celeste...

Politics Day


We all love and miss you guys very much. We know you all love pictures so Erin will be putting more on the google doc tonight. Today, everybody was allowed to sleep in until 7:20, but we were all still completely exhausted from yesterday’s adventure. After...