Posted in Matagalpa2 - 07/03/2014 by Ahmad Jackson Jr.
Today’s insightful guest speakers emphasized the importance of young people being involved in politics. We were visited by a liberal politician named Mario and a Sandinista politician Damaris. They didn’t come to persuade us or to challenge each others platforms. As...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 07/03/2014 by Mahamadou Labo, Nigel Johnson
Today was one of the hardest days for all of us Global Glimpse travelers. It marked our second reality challenge following the living on a $1 a day task which proved to be easy peasy lemon squeezy compared to what we faced today. We began this difficult day by having...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 07/03/2014 by Matthew Walker
Today, we went to the farm where Nicaraguan coffee is grown. There we saw several new types of coffee, we also were told the most profitable months where December to February. We also heard 250 people work at the farm during this time and only earn 27 Cordobas...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 07/03/2014 by Brietnni Singletary
Good Evening GG Family Today the future leaders and I experienced our first free day. With this new city, things were kind of hard to find. The whole point of a free day is for our future leaders to go out on the town and shop or do whatever they please. However,...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 07/03/2014 by Daquan Simmons
Buenos Dias Amigos! Today was day 7 on our time here in Nicaragua, and for the most part, everyone was feeling really energetic considering we all finally got an extra hour of sleep last night. It’s still pretty hard for everyone to get adjusted to some of the...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 07/03/2014 by Pamela Jean-Charles
Good evening, Parents, friends, sponsors and GG family! This trip has taken a major impact not just in my life for the couple of days I have been here, but also my peers as well. We have been inspired for the last few days we’ve been here and we are motived to...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 07/03/2014 by JohnPaul Garcia
I think none of us thought that we would wake up to the one of the most life changing days of our life. It started this morning when we woke up at 5 am to bucket showers. These showers were definitely by far the quickest, coldest, and most uncomfortable showers...
