Hello to all the friends and family of all the Glimpsers!
After a week of hard work learning about Nicaragua’s culture and people, we all got to experience our first free day!
Here is how the day went,
At 8:00 am, everyone woke up and got ready to start the day. After everyone got ready, we left the hostal to get breakfast at 8:30. 9:00 am was when the first block of fun started. We split into two groups, one group with Kiki and the other with Matthew. The groups went their separate ways and explored the city of Leon. Because we were split into groups, I personally cannot tell what both groups did.
First, we went to the supermarket and got snacks and drinks for when we hang out at the hostel. After the supermarket, we stopped by an appliance store where we saw a TV that would cost around $7,000 in the US cost around $100 over here. After we got kicked out, we headed to the plaza. At the plaza, we bought souvenirs and hung out for a few minutes. Then we headed to the smoothie store across the street. At the smoothie store, some of us experienced the best smoothie of their lives. This smoothie was called the “volcano”. It included a chocolate, banana, ice cream mix. After the fantastic smoothies, we had an hour before we had to head to lunch at 12:30 pm. We decided to go back to the hostal early and hang out there.
After the lunch served to us, we split into the same groups and headed out for our second block of free time at 1:00 pm. For our second block of free time, most of us wanted to visit the thrift store. What surprised us was that the thrift store was closed today, but we got ice cream after that. After the fantastic ice cream, we visited the Cathedral seen in the photo. After taking that photo, we went back to the hostel to work on the presentation for our Community Action Project and our next English tutoring lesson. After the exhausting work, we went out for dinner at 6:30 pm. When dinner ended, we went to the hostal and had our nightly meeting at 7:00 pm. At the nightly meeting we had to answer the question “What did we learn here in Nicaragua this past week?”
For me personally, this past week has taught me a lot, but I feel like others may feel the same way. Learning about Nicaragua’s educational system, visiting the dump and visiting the community yesterday taught me a lot about the privileges we have as citizens of the United States and how grateful we should be to have those privileges. For example, seeing how the people in the community have so little, but stay so positive taught me how grateful we as US citizens should be grateful for the things we have. Because in the United States, many people feel like that they need to have the latest technology to be happy, whereas here in the community, they are happy they at least have a working TV that broadcasts in black and white. The experience I had this past week has taught me a lot about the privileges I have as an American and should be grateful for those privileges. I also feel that I will always keep this experience close to my heart.
After answering the question, we gave our thorns and roses, our pluses and wishes, and then it was time to pass the torch to the next two leaders of the day. And now, here I am, writing this blog post to you all.
Good night to all of you!
-Brian
Hey! It seems like you all had a wonderful experience today, having it be your first free day of course. I hope everything goes well for you all on your second week staying at Nicaragua.
Brian, hope you are having fun on your trip and I’ll see you next week!
Hope everyone had a great time on your free day.
Hey Loren 🙂 hope you having a good time ! ❤️ Can’t wait till you’re back.
Time to Play! Awesome! You guys worked so hard this week. You deserve it.
Get your rest, and get ready to make the most of the up coming week. Looking forward to reading more about your adventures.
We’re so proud of you Sam. You’ll have to show us how to make the “Volcano”. Sounds Yummy.
Take care and we’ll see you next week
What a wonderful experience you’re all having. Glad to hear your doing well. We miss u, Jess!!! Your sisters are having ur share of milk teas! Lol. Hugs and kisses!
hello everyone! I’m from L2A, Summer and Cynthia’s first Global Glimpse trip in Leon! I hope you all have enjoyed Leon so far– the city that I learned to love throughout my experience a couple weeks ago. Since I have gotten back from my trip already, let me share some hopefully helpful and somewhat entertaining advice. Take the time to look at the people surrounding you right now; the wonderful leaders, program coordinators, and each and every individual that you have been sharing your experience with. Really just take the time to appreciate these people, the lessons they have taught you, and memories they have shared with you. Take the time to open up to all these people, the people on your trip and the people of Leon. Look up at the sky, the architecture, and the people passing by as you walk– not just the hoyos. I hope you all have the time of your life on this trip, and take the time to connect with others while learning about yourselves as well. Global Glimpse will literally change you, and maybe when you come home, you’ll be like me: missing every second of the trip and every bite of gallo pinto as I cry and write this blog post. Your group honestly has the most amazing PCs in the world and they really planned such an amazing trip for everyone so take it all in! PS: Please tell Summer and Cynthia that I love them :’)))
Simone thank you so much for the heart felt and super wise words of advice. I will be sure that this gets shared after big love at tonight’s meeting-
Eric! Oscar! Hope you’re having a lot of fun in Leon right now. Reading these blogs and looking at these pictures make me miss it so much!! L2A misses you, Summer and Cynthia!! – also how’s the pretzeltreker HAHAAHA
So proud of you Mya! We miss you and think of you all day and seeing these pics and reading about your journey is so inspiring and exciting! Love you love you love you!!! ????
Go GG! ???
Excellent pictures!
Dear Loren, I miss you a lot & cannot wait until you come back so we can have lots of fun! Sincerely, Vieila (Dailins Best Friend)