Globalization: Working Like a Local

Today, July 31st, 2018 the Global Glimpse students experienced a day working like local farmers which was a pretty long day. We started our day off by waking up at 6:00 am and getting ready for breakfast by 7:00am. After breakfast we took a bus from the hotel to...

Aid and Development

Today, Monday, July 30, 2018 our focus of the day was “Aid and Development.” We started off at 7 am and we ate breakfast at Funjido which is our dining and meeting area. We visited the baseball field in Las Flores in order to meet our guest speaker Juanjo and the...

Photos from previous posts

We will not normally be able to send you this many photos, but we needed to get every student in this one. At the end of the photos are two videos. https://globalglimpse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/IMG_7941-1.m4v  ...

Adventures in Rio Grande

Today was “Living like A Local” day. We visited the village of Rio Grande, where we stayed in the houses of volunteer hosts. We got the chance to experience what life is like for the people living there. The goal of the day was to live as if we earned a two-dollar...

Mascara, Bachata, and Merengue

We had an incredible day!!!!! Today we learned about the Dominican culture through mask making (mascara) and learning how to dance the merengue and bachata. We were able to make our very own mask instructed by Gato, a famous mask-maker in the Dominican Republic. And...