Recent posts from: Constanza – 6/10/2015


Naturalization


We started the day at 7am with some Frosted Flakes- like cereal and tropical fruit salad. During our academic seminar we talked about how our family’s immigration history can affect our identity and how everyone is a descendant of immigrants. We role played...

Way Up High, And Down Below


 Did someone say Sunday Fun Day? Today started off bright and early with a ride up the mountains surrounding Constanza to the beautiful monument, Divino Niño (Divine Child) which overlooks the lush green valley of the city. The monument was built by Antonio Manuel...

Living in the community – A new perspective


  We began our day at the break of dawn – 6 AM. Since today’s theme was living in the community, we all had a meal of hot chocolate and bread for breakfast. Soon after we boarded our la gua gua (bus) to Canada de las Palmas. When we arrived we received the...

Community Action Project discovery


Today we woke up at 8:00 am 🙂 We had breakfast: it was boiled eggs and sweet smashed bananas with a great papaya/guava juice. It was so delicious. Afterwards, we had an academic seminar regarding aid and development, which was followed by a speaker, Juan Carlos, who...

A Fun Day With The Rain Gods


The day started at 7 am and was immediately followed by a hefty breakfast of mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, and hot chocolate. We filled up and set off in safari trucks for the long adventurous day ahead. A two and a half hour truck ride was filled with positive...

Work Like a Local Day


  Today was a tough start for the Glimpsers. We began our day at the early time of 5:30. A similar time to that of what the locals wake up at to head to work. That is exactly what we did in fact, we headed over to our speakers Don Pedro’s farm to experience...