Recent posts from: Esteli2 – 07/25/2014


The Amazing Journey


Today wasn’t just any day; it was one of the most emotional but happiest days of our lives.  I woke up all of the Global Glimpsers today at 5am which isn’t as easy as it sounds.  But thanks to the trusted help of Christian Lyken, it was easier for me to...

The Beginning of the End


Today marks the last day of our trip in Nicaragua. As the leader, I was given the name of “Joker” because I do a reasonably great impression of the Joker from Batman. An Important part of today was our final reflection seminar; it was a very emotional and interesting...

The Not-So-Free-Day Free Day


Today was our last free day here in Nicaragua, yet we still had some work to do. Being that our CAP project wasn’t able to be completed yesterday, we had to finish it this morning. We worked for two hours on painting the rest of the park and then thanked Sonati for...

Community Action Project, Day 2


Exhaustion laid heavily on everyone shoulders today after a wakeup call of 6:30 am and an entertaining night at the Disco. Even with a nap on every ones minds, there was something even more important to everyone today, which was to get this project completed by...

Community Action Project, Day 1


Today was the day we started the community action project, and surprisingly, it went smoother than we thought it would. It started with leading the others to the park grounds where we separated into two groups:  those who would stay and clean the park, and those who...

A Day at Somoto Canyon


On 08/08/14 we, Chanei and Jessenia, were the leaders of the second fun day so far.  We started our day at 4am in the morning making sandwiches for lunch in the afternoon. After this we woke everyone up so we could experience Nicaragua’s famous cookie in the city of...

Politics Day


Wow, so what a day it has been. Very few days in my mind seemed to have been so long. And that is not meant in a bad way – the day was fun. We started with the wakeup call, which I could have done better by asking for special preferences for wakeup call… instead...