A Day in the Life of a High School Student

  Ello from Hostel San Jose! We started another great day by waking up at 6 am, proceeding to breakfast where we enjoyed yet another meal of gallopinto paired with scrambled eggs and white bread. Our first of multiple field trips was to La Escuela Especial...

Down at the Dump

Hi everyone! Due to some very unfortunate circumstances, Jahred and I have gotten the chance to lead this group again. Today was Poverty Day and it started as any other. We woke up early to have breakfast at Imabite, and returned back to the hostel to have an academic...

Living Like a Local

Buckets, candles, gallopinto. That was all we had for today’s Living Like a Local Challenge. With no electricity, no fans, and no showers, we were limited to bucket showers, candle-lit bathroom trips at night and bedtime in hot Leon weather. Despite the heat and...

Diversion Al Sol (Fun in the Sun!)

Hey everyone! There are a plethora of ways to describe how today went. Exciting, wonderful, fantastic… all would be adequate words to use. Yet out of all the choices available to us, we’ll go with this: swimmingly. Our day started off like any other. We...

In a Different Perspective

Today was an important day. We started off the morning like any other, with the wake up call and breakfast, and started up the academic seminar. This time, we discussed aid and development, and what the government has been doing so far in giving away all this money to...