Posted in Esteli2 - 07/25/2014 by Shaquille Bodemer
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...
Posted in Leon2 - 07/23/2014 by Cordelia
While we’re in a foreign country, we certainly aren’t here to be tourists. This trip has provided a completely new experience for both me and the twenty-one other incoming seniors that I’ve been living with these past couple of weeks. Because it was a free day,...
Posted in Leon2 - 07/23/2014 by Tessa Pulido and Alissa Castro
Tessa’s Perspective Today was the beginning of the end…I know that sounds a little morbid but it was the beginning of the end of our trip. We finished a lot of activities today: our Community Action Project (CAP) at El Platanal and English tutoring lessons. It...
Posted in Leon2 - 07/23/2014 by Ariel and Carley
Ariel’s Perspective Today our day started at the glorious hour of 7:00am. We were all bright eyed and bushy tailed as we woke up, got ready and walked the 4 blocks we walk every breakfast, lunch and dinner to “Quiero Mas” to have breakfast. Our breakfast...
Posted in Leon2 - 07/23/2014 by Danielle and Javi
Danielle’s Perspective The Community Action Project (CAP) is a time that we all come together to create a beautiful and memorable gift for a community in need. On CAP delivery day #1, I was leader of the day (El Lider del Dia) along with Javier. We woke up at...
Posted in Matagalpa2 - 07/24/2014 by Bianca Animas and Amy Huang
Hi everyone! Today is the final day of our journey and we were the last two leaders of the day were us, Bianca and Amy. We started off our day with our last wakeup call at our hostel. We made sure to use one of the bird whistles to wake everyone up in the most...
Posted in Esteli2 - 07/25/2014 by Sam Rose
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...
