Day 9 Free Day

Hello! This is Angela Du, reporting for DUty…get it…because it’s my last name…. (courtesy of Justene) for Day 9, which was our first official free day. For the first time in nine days, students had the option of waking up at 8:30 (even though...

Day 8 Live Like a Local

Hello everyone, this is Julia, el lider del dia reporting to y’all straight from Esteli Nicaragua. Today was our Reality Challenge: Living Like a Local Day, and it definitely was a challenge. What the challenge part of that means is that we all showered using a bucket...

Day 7 Poverty

Question of the Day: What are the similarities and differences of poverty in the US and Nicaragua?   I never thought that I would be saying this, but waking up at 7:00 AM today felt like sleeping in.  The entire group was pretty well rested for the intense and...

Day 6 Education

Hey everyone! So as Leader of the Day, I (Justene), I woke up at 4:50 and walked around doing the daily wakeup call at 5. Making repeated rounds to make sure everybody was getting up, dressed, and ready to eat, we went to breakfast by 6. Eating eggs, rice with beans,...

Day 5 Aid and Development

Hello everybody. So this morning I (Javier) woke everyone up at 7 sharp so they could gather themselves up after a long day yesterday to get to breakfast at 8:15. We ate some delicious pancakes! We all had missed food like that so of course we devoured every last one...