Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2017


Day 12: Getting Down and Dirty


Today was the first day of our CAP Delivery Project. Some of us woke up at 6AM again for an early workout. For breakfast, we ate salami with plantains. The group was told to drink water with electrolytes for our safety while we planned to work in the sun all day. At...

New Flight Departure Information


Parents & Guardians, Due to weather related conditions at JFK,  the groups original flight (JetBlue flight 1801) was delayed. This would have caused the group to miss their connecting flight in Florida and their are no other flights to Quito this evening. In order...

Deconstructing Poverty Day


We did so much today! To start off the day, we visited our CAP partner Blanca Rosa Cruz at Educación especial, which is a school for special needs children living in Nicaragua. We learned about how the school runs, and were even able to meet some of the kids! It was...

Deconstructing Poverty/Aid and Development Day


Hi guys, today we had two wonderful activities that we wish to share with you. The leaders started the day with a run at 6:20 a.m. with Jacob, Christa, and Loretta. At 7:00 a.m. we did wake up calls and everyone prepared their laundry for cleaning. By 8:00 a.m....

PROGRESS! PROGRESS! PROGRESS!


Hola amigos y familia!! Hi friends and family! Today was very interesting (to say the least), yet it was an awesome day; it was day two of our community action project. In case you skimmed past all the talk about this CAP project, we are planning on remodeling a...

HI FRIENDS!


Hello everyone! My name is Gina and I am also from the Bay Area. I have been outside of the U.S before but never to South America. Apart from feeling a little nervous and a little unprepared, I am super excited to be going on this trip 😄. I can’t wait to...

Day 11: Immigration Day


Today was Immigration Day. The day started off with some of the Glimpsers exercising with the Executive Director of Global Glimpse, Eliza, a super special treat.  At 7:00am, the Glimpsers officially woke up and had breakfast. Then, we headed out to Batey Palave....