Recent posts from: Riobamba1 – 6/17/2016


Final Reflection Day


Today is our final day here in Riobamba. There wasn’t some super extravagant event planned, no surprise parties, it was just enjoying our last day together. We ate our last breakfast here at La Primavera, then we had our last reflection seminar. We’ve done so much...

Fun Day Part 2


Today was a fun day, literally it was called Fun Day. It was even more fun than Pete and Carson’s fun day. This morning our alarms didn’t go off, so we were abruptly woken up at 6:38 am and needed to get everyone else up at 6:45 am, so that was a super start to our...

CAP Day #2


Our second day of working on our Community Action Project began with a 6:45 wake up call and a nice prank from the boys. After much laughter, everyone made their way to breakfast where they were forced to do 10 jumping jacks for every minute they were late. Fresh...

RB1A Return Flight Information


Hello Family and Friends of RB1A Glimpsers, We know you all are excited for the return of the students on Monday, so we wanted to update you all with their flight information: The students will be arriving at ORD at 12:00PM on Delta Flight #812 into the Domestic...

CAP(community action project ) Day 1


Today was our first day working on the CAP, and it was amazingly fun. We got so much accomplished: we scraped the old paint off of the market area and applied a new coat of salmon pink, repainted the fountain, cleaned and repainted three bathrooms.  But that’s...

Free day #2


  Today was the day in which most of us accomplished all of our souvenir shopping for our family and friends. We surprisingly all made it on time to our meeting locations which definitely made our leaders proud. Most of us spent the day at the market trying to...

The Economics of Ecuador


  Personally, I love economics, the graphs, numbers and charts are right up my alley. However, many don’t have quite the same love for graphs as I do, and that’s what today was for. The two themes of the day were Global Business and Aid and...