Global Business/WLAL Blog

Hola los familias! We welcomed a day of hard work and sweat here in Jarabacoa. As locals, we started with an early morning journey to Flores de Jarabacoa alongside Trudeau exportation company. During the tasks, we enriched ourselves in what it really means to be a...

Free Day #1

Today, we had our first free day, in which we were allowed a lot of free time to explore Jarabacoa with our student ambassadors who live here in the Dominican Republic. We had a very relaxed morning, as we didn’t have a set wakeup time because we mainly had exploring...

Day 3: Living Like a Local Day

Hello Parents/Guardians, friends, and fellow Glimpsers! The last twenty-four hours have been so challenging for us here in Jarabacoa! We have lived like a local: no electricity, no fans, no running water, and smaller portions of food. Nonetheless, we are still...

Horsing Around in Jarabacoa

Family and Friends, As our first full day in Jarabacoa draws to a close, I’m struck by the remarkable sense of familiarity I perceive within our group. Most students have known one another for fewer than three days, and yet their interactions with one another...

We’ve arrived! In New Jersey.

Parents and Friends, After a long day on the road, we find ourselves hardly closer to the Dominican Republic than when we rolled out of bed at 1:00am. However, through the dogged efforts of many people on the Global Glimpse support team, our students are safe,...