Recent posts from: Esteli – 07/01/2013


Día 15: CAP Design!


¡Hola desde Estelí! Sorry for this delayed post; I hope I didn’t worry all the parents too much! Waking up early is not the business, but the last few days have been jam-packed with our big Community Action Project (CAP) planning.  On this day, I was really in my...

Día 14: CAP Discovery


Today was our first Community Action Project (CAP) day titled Discovery.  During our seminar introducing what CAP is about, we brainstormed all the organizations and potential projects towards making a great impact in the Estelí community. The immense tension brought...

Day 13: Día de Diversión (Fun Day)


Saludos de Nicaragua, Today was an amazing day for the whole Global Glimpse team. We definitely learned a lot about each other today, but mainly that many of us are extremely supportive of one another. Today, the Glimpsers headed to Cañon de Somoto for a challenging...

Day 12: Politics


¡Saludos desde Nicaragua! Today we explored the complexities of Nicaraguan politics.  Although we learned a little bit about Nicaraguan politics on our history day, today we went more in depth and had the opportunity to experience it. Our day started with breakfast at...

Day 11: Aid & Development


Hola avid GGblog readers, family members, and random strangers on the Internet! My name is Bodhi Alarcon, goofball of the delegation and today’s Leader of the Day.  I hope you’ve all had a relaxing week and a half so far without your loud and obnoxious – uhm, I mean,...

Day 10: Living on $1 a Day


Experiencing how the people of Estelí lived on $1 a day definitely proved to be an eye-opening experience that many of us will never forget. To maintain the theme of living on a $1 a day, there were some changes the Glimpsers undertook. For their three meals, they...

Day 9: Global Business


Our group’s challenge for the day was to look past face value and go in depth with our choices as consumers and producers. We started off the day pretty early by going to La Casita, one of the few organic farms in Estelí. The Scottish owner, David Thompson, came...