Recent posts from: Leon2 – 07/01/2014


Final Reflection


A day to remember, a day to reflect, a day to discover – the last day of the Global Glimpse trip continues to hold a profound meaning in the hearts of the students. For the entire trip, we have been urged to learn, to experience in person, and to engulf...

Fun Day: Hiking Cerro Negro


Did today rock? You don’t even have to ash! Greetings from Leon! On our second to last full day here in Nicaragua, we hiked up Cerro Negro and volcano-boarded down. We kicked off the day with an early morning start at 7AM. After getting ready, we walked to...

CAP Project Day 2


Hi everyone! This is Becky and Olivia blogging about Day 15-CAP Project part 2. After a hard day of work yesterday, everyone, or mostly everyone, had a good night’s rest for the last leg of the race to the finish line. In the morning, we had probably one of the...

Global Business


        Hello fellow worried parents and friends, we are still alive and better than ever! 🙂 We started off the early morning at 6:30 and headed to Quiero Mas where we devoured some delicious pancakes and bananas, with a side of lemonade. David led...

CAP Delivery Day #1


Hello everyone! Today, we started our CAP delivery. For our CAP (Community Action Project), we decided to paint the front wall and repair the playground at Casa Jacinto de Francisco, the Leon orphanage. We worked at the orphanage for 5 hours today. We split into two...

Free Day


It was a peaceful morning here in the hostel, rather than the usual morning rush that usually occurs. There was no wake up call and the glimpsers were free to have breakfast were ever they pleased. Some headed to Quiro Mas as always but others went out for breakfast....

A New Project Has Been Decided


The Global Glimpsers, with help from the GG leaders, have created a new Community Action Project (CAP) that hopefully will lead to a better orphanage home and a new memorable experience for the Global Glimpse delegates.  After a quick breakfast, a three hour seminar...