Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2013


Historical and Fun Day!


Hello! My name is Cesar Urquiza and I am a Senior at Oakland Tech and participant of College Track. I was the Leader of the Day today and was in charge of managing the group and schedule. Our day started off waking up at 5:45 in the morning and going for an early jog...

Matagalpa Day 15- Sunday Funday


Today we woke up at 5:30 am and got on the bus at 6:30.  We joined the other delegation for the whole day.  We all enjoyed being in others company.  Not only did we join the other delegation, I had a fellow El Lider del Dia from the other delegation.  So Thalia and I...

Working Like A Local Day!


  Hi, my name is Jae Williams, I am a rising senior at Dougherty Valley High School, and today I tackled the role of El Lider del Dia. We boarded our bus at 4:30AM and headed to La Bastilla, a technical-agricultural science high school that puts equal emphasis on...

Dia en la vida de un estudiante


Heeeeey everybody. My name is Julia Arsan, and today, I took on the role as El Lider del Dia. As leader of the day, I was given the unforgiving task of knocking on everyone’s doors at 5 o clock in the morning. Yes, you read that right. 5 am. As you could...

The Culture Day! (Da Bez Dei Evah)


Hola!! Today was the best day ever as stated in the title 🙂 We started off by getting our dance moves on in dance class and it was really fun. We did an exchange of some american moves with the cha cha slide and we received some LATINO moves! Afterwards we attended a...

Working at the Market Day


Hello, my name is Aaron Alvarado, I am from Redwood City, California, I am 16 years old. I will be attending my senior year of high school at Summit Prep this coming fall. I was leader of the day today, along with Timothy Ford. Our group had a very challenging but...

Matagalpa Day 14- Fun Day


Fun day! Today, the Glimpsers and GG Leaders were woken up at a generous 7 o’clock. Sharp. We walked to our favorite breakfast joint, Su Pollo Listo. There, we were greeted with the pleasant and familiar smell of cinnamon. We ate a delicious breakfast of...