Posted in Esteli - 06/04/2013 by Jasmin Lewis
On this day all of us Glimpsers shadowed a high school student at the school of Colegio de Las Monjas in Estelì, Nicaragua. It was a great day, because even though not all of us new Spanish we did our best to communicate with the students and managed to have a good...
Posted in Esteli - 06/04/2013 by Vivien Trinh
Yesterday was Funday Sunday!! After having pancakes for breakfast at Alfredito’s, we went back to the hostel to get ready for the big adventure of the day–ESTENZUELA. We got on the bus and arrived at the entrance to our destination. We ventured downhill...
Posted in Esteli - 06/04/2013 by Estephanie Lua
Today was an eye opening day because we had the opportunity to visit a school that was located right next to a dump, the students who attended the school were children whose parents worked at the dump.During our time at the school we had the opportunity to play jump...
Posted in Esteli - 06/04/2013 by Jennifer Castro
Today students learned about Nicaraguan culture by visiting Don Alberto who lives in Jalacate just an Hour away. He shared his home and was very happy to have us there. Lets backtrack a bit, before getting there hew had a 1 kilometer hike down a steep muddy hill. He...
Posted in Esteli - 06/04/2013 by Jennifer Castro
Hello everyone! Today the students had their history seminar where they learned about Nicaragua’s important events and how they have shaped the people today. After that we broke up into two groups and did a city tour that lasted about 1.5 hours, all walking! We...
Posted in Esteli - 06/04/2013 by Jennifer Castro
Hi Everyone! We made the journey and arrived safely to Esteli. I would have posted a picture but Ms. castro’s phone got lost with the pictures. We will post tomorrow showing our journey thus far. The students ate delicious food, took a 2 hour bus nap and had an...
Posted in Esteli - 06/04/2013 by Program Coordinators Whitney and Javier
Or in other words….we’ll see each other soon!! We can’t wait to welcome you here in Nicaragua and show you all around Esteli. Hopefully you all received our email from a few weeks ago, introducing ourselves as your Program Coordinators. Javier, from...