Posted in Matagalpa2 - 06/08/2014 by Maria & Skar
Hi world, this is Maria and Skarleth the program coordinators for M2B. Well, they are finally here! One awesome looking group of 20 students ready to embark on the big Global Glimpse journey. First to arrive was our Summer Search Brandon from Seattle. We got to hang...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 06/08/2014 by Giacomo Sumner and Anna Park
In many ways, today was very easy. We didn’t have to wake up at 5 a.m. (we woke up at 7:30), we didn’t have to take bucket showers, we didn’t have to live without electricity, we didn’t have to stress about finishing our Community Action...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 06/08/2014 by McKenna and Jada
Today was our second fun day and our second to last day here in Nicaragua! To start the fun off, we all had to wake up at five in the morning to board the bus by six. Once on the bus we made our three hour journey to the active Masaya Volcano, which is located right...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 06/08/2014 by Dziemhong Pham
Today was a very relaxing day for most of the people in the group. We woke up at 7:00, ready for breakfast and then…shopping time! We had three hours of free time in the morning and another three hours of free time in the afternoon, to be used at our own...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 06/08/2014 by Linh-Mai Do and Shashank Rajani
“Poco a poco, se va muy lejos” -Anonymous This quote (little by little, we will go far) embodies our motivation for the last two days of our CAP for the Los Pipitos organization. Previously, we had visited Los Pipitos and discovered that there were...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 06/08/2014 by Thuong An & Vy Nguyen
“¡Si se puede!” -Matagalpa 2A Today was our last Saturday in Nicaragua and also the beginning of our Community Action Project aka CAP. After an energizer, we headed off to Los Pipitos, the location of our project, via public transportation. Los Pipitos is...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 06/08/2014 by Mohammed Azeel and Christine Carpio
“The early bird gets the worm.” -Anonymous Working like a local today resulted in a very strenuous challenge for us all. Starting our day by waking up at dawn (4 AM) and enduring the back breaking work of the local farmers here at Matagalpa, Nicaragua has...
