Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2014


Matagalpa 2 Day 11 Free Day!


Hey everyone! My name is Douglas and I am the leader for today. It was a nice and relaxing day because the Glimpsers had their first free day. They were really excited because they got to go out on their own in groups of four. They signed out telling the leaders where...

Leadership Isn’t So Easy After All


  Being a leader is not as easy as it might seem. A leader has many responsibilities! Today, I definitely had to step out of my comfort zone which was a major challenge for me. Another challenge I had was taking care of not only myself, but twenty-one others as well. ...

Fun Day at the Lagoon


The beginning of fun day wasn’t so fun in the morning, the anticipation and fear of everyone’s grumpy morning mood was an obstacle, but we did it! The beginning of the day started with a 2 hour bus ride to a lagoon named Masaya. We all learned that fun day doesn’t...

CAP Day #2


Saludos a todos! Today was another exciting and eventful day in Matagalpa as we continued to work on our community action project at Los Pipitos. After a delicious breakfast of gallo pinto, huevos, auacate, and queso, we participated in a quick energizer to lift our...

Politics Day !!!


Today  the group  woke up at  7 am. Then we got ready to go to the comedor, their we ate omelets  that had ham and cheese with the beverage of “Avena” which means oatmeal.Later on  we walked to our guest speaker, Luis  Mora, a war veteran for the...

Matagalpa 2 Day 10 – Fun Day!


Hey Everyone, What an amazing day for us Glimpsers! We woke up today later than we usually wake up. We were finally able to wake up at 7, which to everyone was like heaven. After eating a good decent breakfast, we visited the chocolate factory, El Castillo Del Cacao....

Presenting and Preparing the CAP


After eating breakfast we kicked off our day by beginning to organize our Community Action Project, CAP, in more detail. We started by gathering with one of the three groups we chose to take a part of while working on our CAP: horticulture, huerto (orchard), and...