Posted in Leon1 - 6/29/2017 by Kyra Lee & Allison Cheung
After a good night’s sleep and a power breakfast of scrambled eggs and gallo pinto, we strolled to the market to step into the shoes of local vendors. We experienced what it was like to be true local Nicaraguans—working tirelessly for 10 hours a day for a small profit...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/29/2017 by Wendy Ly
Bienvenidos! We have officially reached our halfway point of our AMAZING trip. We had a pretty chill day today and it was spent mostly in the hostel. We woke up at 7:15 (after discussion whether we should wake up at 7 or 7:30) to the very humid weather and had...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/29/2017 by Cherin Koh & Ryan Marks
From the beginning we knew it was going to be a long day with the sixth day of gallo pinto, two days worth of lessons to learn, a jam-packed schedule, and a wake-up call of 7:00 am. After breakfast at Imabite, we did an activity called Privilege Walk, in which we...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/29/2017 by Hayley Ng
Buenas Noches everyone! My name is Hayley Ng and I was today’s Leader Del Dia for our free day! We started the day off with breakfast at Imabite, then headed for the Central Plaza where we sipped on iced coffee from a French inspired coffee shop and various...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/29/2017 by Reya Hancock and Josh Amick
From taking bucket showers, to living a day without electricity, to solely eating small rations of gallo pinto, we can definitely say that small glimpse of real poverty was enough to make almost everyone appreciate the smallest luxuries that we have at home. This day...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/29/2017 by Jonathan Goto & Justin Leung
The day started with Justin and me, the first two student Lideres Del Dia (LDD/Leaders of the Day). We started with our first job, waking up at 5:30 in the morning after a long Day 2. We woke up at that time to make sure everyone was awake by 6:00 in the morning. We...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/29/2017 by Tayson Bui & Sarah Nahigian
After lights out at 10:30pm from the previous night, students were ready to tackle their first full day (without a flight). We started with an early wake up at 7:00. That wasn’t too difficult though as the sun was already up, and things were already starting to...
