Posted in San Juan de La Maguana - 7/02/2017 by Global Glimpse Staff
Hello Family and Friends of SJ1B Glimpsers, We know you all are excited for the return of the students, so here are some reminders about their flight information: The students will be arriving at SFO at 12:08 am PST TONIGHT on CM 382 into the International Terminal....
Posted in San Juan de La Maguana - 7/02/2017 by Alejandra Hernandez and Lena Cliett
Hello family and friends! As you know, today is our last day in the DR. We spent a lot of time saying goodbye, and reviewing what we learned from our trip. After breakfast, we had a three hour seminar to reflect on our trip and to show big love to everyone we also...
Posted in San Juan de La Maguana - 7/02/2017 by Sofia Otzoy and Ashley Segura
Today we continued and finished working on the project with the women’s association. We painted the outside of the building, finished building the benches and painted the bookshelves. Once we completed all the work that had to be done, we setup the inside of the...
Posted in San Juan de La Maguana - 7/02/2017 by Adonte Hines
Today was very good overall, everyone woke up on time at 7am and made it to breakfast even though I made them mad with waking them up very aggressively because I wanted to manage time today since it was going to be very intense because we were starting our first day...
Posted in San Juan de La Maguana - 7/02/2017 by Myles Byrd and Brandon Babu
Greetings from San Juan de la Maguana Today we explored two themes in just one day — these being Global Business and Deconstructing Poverty. For our first half of the day, we visited a sugar plantation and learned about the process of producing sugar, and also...
Posted in San Juan de La Maguana - 7/02/2017 by Lauryn Shek and Maylani Romayor
Today was our second and last free day of the trip. We got to venture around the city on our own and explore new sites around San Juan. We began our day by going out in groups to buy souvenirs and stock up on snacks. Since we’ve arrived, we have gotten more...
Posted in San Juan de La Maguana - 7/02/2017 by Connie Yoon and Judy Ma
Today was a day that was composed of learning about global aid and development, hence the title. More specifically, we met with the community that we will be working with to improve their community center, as well as two Peace Corps volunteers. We met with the...
