Day 7: Poverty Day

Poverty. Poverty is an unfortunate reality in any part of the word and we came face to face with it today. The main event today was our group’s visit to the Jinotega dump. Here people survive by picking out garbage. There were aspects of their jobs that were...

Day 6: Living Like a Local

Today we had an extremely early wake up call and I know very well that none of us were used to getting up at 5:30 am. But it was not too bad because we got to wake up and take lovely bucket showers that woke everyone up! We then went for breakfast, and realized that...

Day 5: Aid Development 7/25/16

Buenas noches family and friends of the 3rd Jinotega Delegation! Today was Aid and Development Day, which we started off with a wake up at 7:00am. After everyone was up and ready to go we headed to another delicious breakfast at La Familiar where we had fried tortilla...

Day 4: FUN DAY!!!!!!!!

“If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good!”- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Today, in Jinotega, J1C embarked on its first fun day. After 3 days of learning about the country, the city, and the culture, we finally got to have fun and...