Posted in Leon - 06/25/2013 by Sabrina
Today was our first free day! Since it´s still the first ten days of our trip, we couldn´t brave our new city on our own, we had to be attended by our Global Glimpse leaders. You might think that getting 20 high schoolers to all agree on one or two places to go at a...
Posted in Leon - 06/25/2013 by Alejandra Cruz
Hello everyone, today´s topic was education. We had a seminar about education and looked at the similarities and differences between Nicaragua and California in education. We were very surprised to find out that our government in the US only funds for education about...
Posted in Leon - 06/25/2013 by Tomas
Today going to Leon Viejo we learned a lot. We learned the history of Leon and how Spain had a huge impact on the development of Nicaragua and other latino countries. One thing that we learned about Leon was that at one point in history it was the capital of...
Posted in Leon - 06/25/2013 by Dania, Kyna
So today, the student leaders of the day were Dania Gomez and Kyna Xu 🙂 Our theme of the day was working like a local: we had an opportunity to help locals make and sell common market food items such as Jugos (Juices), Queso (Cheese), and traditional Nicaraguan...
Posted in Leon - 06/25/2013 by Denisse Gonzalez
Yesterday the theme for the day was Poverty. For our theme that day the Glimpsers all had a poverty seminar so we could learn a little of how Nicaragua came to be a third world country. Later on as a group, we all visited the dump in Leon. Visiting the city dump was...
Posted in Leon - 06/25/2013 by Karena Doan
What a great day full of Nicaraguan culture. We were able to visit a Museum of Myths and Legends and an artist co-op that provides affordable art classes for the community. Here we had the opportunity to do a traditional art installation – a sawdust rug! We...
Posted in Leon - 06/25/2013 by Karen
Day 2 – History!!! History day is history now, but I’m sure that the Glimpsers will remember today’s experience. Today we had a fun and educational day. We started the morning talking about cultural differences, for them to keep an open mind. They also had a brief...
