Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2013


Shadowing a High School Student Day!


Hello Everyone! This is Winnie typing, and I was the first leader of the day. We all had a very early start to our day today. I had to wake everyone up at 5:00AM (the earliest time we had to wake up so far)! After that, everyone got ready and was ready to go by...

FUN DAY


7/24/13 Sorry for not posting last night, we had an early wake-up this morning so that we could go to the Sugar Mill. Today we went to Plaza Caonabo. Caonabo was a native leader who fought the colonization of Republico Dominicano. The Spainards gave him a pair of...

Day 4-Educación Nica Style!


Wake-Up Call. Ice cold shower. Pregunta del dia(question of the day). Desayuno (breakfast). The dabble of cold water on the napes of our necks and Gallo Pinto are beginning to become a norm in our daily routine. Glimpsers had an early morning travel to the Sor Maria...

Day 7, Leon: Aid and Development!


  Hello everyone! My name is Ivy Decleto and I am from San Francisco, California. I go to Abraham Lincoln High School with one other Global Glimpser here. Today´s theme of the day was Aid and Development and we were able to learn and hear the stories of people...

Shadowing a High Schooler


¿Que onda prix? Today the Jinotega Crew went to the local high schools to experience what it’s like to live the life of a Nicaraguan high schooler. It was amazing, we’re in a foreign country, yet it was still so familiar to us. The students are the...

History Day


Our first full day in Nicaragua! Waking up at 6:30 wasn’t fun, but we all felt pretty rested even though we had been up for more than thirty hours the night before. After breakfast we sat together as a group and did our culture, safety, and history seminars. We...

Passionate Politics


Hola! Day 2 started extra early for some of us who decided to join our in-country leader at the gym while the rest of us slept a little longer.  Then we all met at the dining table for a delicious breakfast of pancakes and corn flakes.  After breakfast we got to know...