Our names are Tamy Bui and Michelle Lam from Andrew Hill High School, and we are today’s leaders of the day! Today was CAP execution day two and we’ve accomplished so much since the project has started. We started off the day with a nice and early wakeup call at 6:30 AM (we never got our coffee promised to us by our PC, Alex, from the gold LDD cup 😢) and a breakfast of French toast, scrambled eggs, ham, and mango juice. We left right after breakfast and walked to ADIC to get to work for our CAP project.
The painting/design team spent the day painting the walls inside green, white, and brown. Also, we had the children and adults from ADIC create a mural out of their handprints to actually spell out the words of the organization. Because there weren’t enough handprints, glimpsers, PC’s, and leaders got to contribute a personal touch to the mural with their own handprints. It turned out extremely well and the children from ADIC love it so far. We’ve also made a lot of progress with the Dr. Seuss mural; we just need to continue to outline the drawings and lettering in black paint. Shout out to Nicole Herhusky for free handing the lettering! It came out perfect.
The gardening team also accomplished a lot with their project. They finished laying out the dirt and painting stones for a pathway in the garden. Today, they completed most of the pathway and it looked absolutely beautiful, but after lunch it started to pour and the garden was ruined, unfortunately. The rain caused the garden team to halt their progress because it was not safe to work. Instead, they came over to help the painting/design team paint the walls inside and outside. When the rain finally stopped, the gardening team got right back to work and continued to lay out stones for the pathway and painted gardening pots.
We walked back to our hostel for lunch at 12 PM and had chicken, rice, vegetables, and a delicious lime juice that everyone loved. After lunch, we had our money exchanged in order for us to buy our final souvenirs and more ice cream from Kiss Me (I love their ice cream so much!!! -Tamy). Then, most of the glimpsers went upstairs to prepare for English tutoring classes at San Luis at 6 PM while two other glimpsers had their leadership meeting. We then all returned to ADIC at 2 PM to finish what was already mentioned above. Dinner today was gallo pinto, steamed vegetables, avocado, and some kind of tasty drink (no one is sure if it’s tamarind juice or if it’s sweet tea lemonade… but it’s probably the latter) (I think the cooks decided to cook vegetarian for everyone tonight because we’ve had enough chicken – Michelle).
English tutoring at San Luis was a fun time for everyone, as always. Tamy’s advanced class has only about five students, but engaging in conversation with them and teaching them grammar and new vocabulary has been a great experience. Michelle’s intermediate class has about 20 students, and they always have a great time playing icebreakers and games during class to engage the students. Today, the advanced class and the intermediate class played an icebreaker, ultimate rock paper scissors, together and the advanced class finished with an intense game of Pictionary. Like every day prior to today, everyone walked back to the hostel with bright smiles on their faces despite the pouring rain.
As leaders of the day, we facilitated the first half of the nightly meeting by starting off with a summary of the day, a plus and a wish for the group (from Michelle) and a thorn and a rose as well as the question of the day (from Tamy). The torch was then passed to the next leaders of the day, Hayley and Josie!
We are currently writing this blog from the fourth floor of the hostel while playing games with the whole delegation and eating snacks. Overall, we’ve all become pretty close to one another throughout the past eleven days and are already looking forward to our group reunion in SF, In N Out, or some other place with lots of delicious food sometime this summer.
That’s it for now. Adios to our family, friends, and everyone else reading this blog!
P.S…
To my family and friends, look forward to what seems like an endless supply of coffee, chocolate, bracelets, and other souvenirs from Nicaragua! To my parents, I miss you both very much and hope you’re both healthy and happy. I love you both! Also, thank you to everyone for leaving comments on the blogs; I’ve really enjoyed reading them. I’ll see you all in a few days! Big love to you all! – Tamy Bui
Shout out to my parents, I miss you guys so much! And congratulations to Katie for graduating elementary school soon! And to my two racket one love group, YALL BETTER NOT BE HANGING OUT WITHOUT ME (me too me too)!!!! Also, Gina plan a bonding for the day I get back so we can hang out before you leave. Mom and dad please bring me food when you come to pick me up at the airport, I miss American food! (preferably Soyful and fast food please) AND, thanks to Tamy for writing most of this while I was playing Mafia! 😁– Michelle Lam
Go Michelle and Tamy! You guys are doing a great job with CAP, can’t wait to see pictures! Looking forward to souvenirs :-), hope you all enjoy rest of the trip!
Sounds awesome. Please post pictures! So proud of all of you! It great to hear your having fun while working hard. Great life lessons. Miss you tremendously Charley and can’t wait for your return. Baylee sends cuddles!!!!!!
Another very productive day! Sorry to hear about the rain and the garden. I don’t know how you all have done it! Your days are jammed packed! You’ll all sleep for days when you get home! Marisa you’ll have to wait to do that when you get home, Mrs. Arzaga dropped of the A’s tickets for you for the game on Tuesday!! Can’t wait to see you! You are coming down to the home stretch! We will see you soon. We’ve been trying to guess what the first thing you might want to eat when you get home! ? Love you and miss you! Sending lots of hugs and kisses!! Mama and Dad
Cynthia (S),
I hope you are having a good time, learning a lot & getting enough ice cream ?
We miss you!
Love Mom
As always, thanks again for the great blogs! We love reading the daily updates on your activities! The CAP projects sound wonderful…so happy to hear about Nicole’s lettering! She makes the best cards and posters 🙂 We are glad all of you are embracing your experiences there together. Keep up the great work. Nicole, sending you big hugs from all of us! Love you!
MICHELLE AHHH IM SO HAPPY YOU FINALLY POSTED I BEEN WAITING FOE THIS FOR THE PAST 11 DAYS. So happy to hear that you’re having a good time BUT I CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU TO COME HOME. I’ll see you in four days boo!!
Marisa looks likes every thing is going well. I hope you are enjoying your the experience ,you well rember this forever.auntie Mary and Dave are hear vistinlng till father day, we had dinner thu and Char came after work.lt’s getting very warm so guess are summer is hear. I hope you can come visit us after you recoup from your trip. Stay well Grammy and Grandpa
Michelle, finally Dad and Mom can hear from you. Miss you a lot. We are glad that you are doing fine and doing some good works. See you home soon.
OMG TAMY AND MICHELLE!!!!!!!! I enjoyed reading this blog so much, I literally teared up right now. I love you guys so much and I’m so proud of all of you! The mural looks so cute and the garden looks super cool. Can’t wait for you guys to come back and tell me more. Miss you guys!!! I miss Cynthia too! I’ll see you all soon. Sending lots of love from SJ :’)
AWWW TAMY AND MICHELLE! I’m so glad you’re having so much fun Tamy! Everyone misses you a lot (especially you know who) Your day sounds amazing! The garden and mural look beautiful. And I know you and Michelle make great teachers haha! Can’t wait to see you both when you come back! I miss and love you guys <33
Hello sister!!!! Mom and dad are happy you finally wrote!!!! We all miss you very much and are excited to see you soon! We are happy to see that you are having so much fun and are enjoying yourself. Buttercup the hamster is still a lil scared but he is getting better!!!! See u soon
Sorry for not commenting yesterday Cynthia. My comment got deleted cus they thought I was spam LOOL. But I’m so happy your day of co-delegating went so well! I can’t wait for you to share stories when you come back. To you Tamy and Michelle! I’m so glad your delegation is working so well during your CAP. CAP was the most frustrating obstacle for my delegation. You glimpsers were all chosen because you guys have leadership qualities that made you stood out. Finding a leader amongst all of you to fallicitate, takes a lot of teamwork and being humble-Kendrick. Keep up the good work guys. As advice for free time, I hope you guys are having fun bonding through board games! My delegation 2 years ago played that every free time and we bonded/hated each other through the experience HAHA. I’m proud of all you glimpsers!
P.S: sorry for not giving you a shoutout last time I commented Michelle! I forgot to write your name down in my list. I’m so glad you joined global glimpse and representing Ahill. After all, Andrew Hill makes the best glimpsers ?. Good night guys!
TAMY!! I LOVE HEARING EVERYTHING YOU’VE BEEN DOING!! I MISS YOU VERY MUCH BUT I’M MORE EXCITED ABOUT ALL THE THINGS YOU’VE LEARNED THROUGH GG. THE GARDEN LOOKS WONDERFUL AND I LOVE THE MURAL!! I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOUR BUI-TIFUL FACE AGAIN. LOTS OF LOVE FROM YOURS TRULY!! <3
Hi Maria I haven’t heard from you. I hope you are enjoying Nicaragua.
Leo is getting better,
Make new friends and new memories please. Saludos. We all miss you.
Hola Gabby & the very cool & creative M1A Matagalpa Crew! Thank you once again for sharing your CAP #2 day.
We can see from the pictures the details of the fun fantastic murals and the beautiful garden space. We like the murals because it draws the viewer into the creative space and conveys an experience of very very very fun, uniquely warm pastel colors with very large familiar Dr. Suess artistic themes. The colorful handprints from the children, the volunteers, and yourselves provide a unique imprint of fond memories for many years to come. Both murals will provide a fun, happy space, and “brings a smile” to many children and volunteers. The garden is shaping up quite nicely. We especially like the white stone pathway, which provides a nice contrast to the very lush green vegetables plants and local dark soil rich in nutrients. We are sure the children will learn the “farm to table” lessons from your impressive garden. We can assess from your progress that your creative paint/design and garden teams have been very hard at work and you’all should be very proud (We are!).
Wow! even after an exhausting day you’all continue to have fun at your evening english lessons; your english tutoring students are embracing your lessons and are already making great progress through ice breakers and Pictionary games!
Very cool that you’all shared your nightly meeting details and it’s always a nice wrap-up, before snacks and enjoying each others company We can tell you’all are truly having the time of your lives and making a long-lasting meaningful impact to the children and the people of ADIC and of Matagalpa! Miss u Gabby! Love Dad
HEY TAMY !!!!! Seems like your having a lot of fun I really like the mural and the garden that you and the others have made they are very beautiful hope you enjoy the few days left you have in Matagalpa!!!!
Your pal 🙂