Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2014


Free Day


Hello everyone. My name is Abdul Black. Today was our second free day.  It was very fun-filled. We had to wake up at  8.00 (the latest we’ve gotten to sleep on the trip so far). We went to breakfast, and immediately after we began our journey. For the most part,...

FREE DAY !!


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,...

Aid and Development Day


“Vision without action is merely a dream; action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world”- Joel Baker. This quote was given for us to keep in our thoughts throughout the whole day. Most students in the group agreed with this quote...

Free Day


July 10, 2014 Today was our first free day. We had two free times during the day, the first of which was from 9-11:45 am, and the second being from 1-4:00 pm. Before we left for our free time, we had to sign in and out and we had to be in groups of four or more when...

updated RETURN FLIGHT INFO…


Hello!!! There has been a major change to our group’s return flight info. Please arrange for pick up at the baggage claim area. For those travelling back to SFO, we will now have the following itinerary: Monday, July 14 (all flights) Please check airline website...

Day 9 – Poverty / Living on $1 a Day


Living on a $1 a day had been advertised to us since the start of Global Glimpse. It has been something we all had been looking forward to. We started our day by taking a bucket shower and having only bread and hot chocolate for breakfast. We then headed off to meet...

Fun In the Sun


It is now July 8, 2014 here in Nicaragua.  It’s day 7 and today we are all taking a break from our busy schedules. We had a very different breakfast this morning at Quiero Mas (our local comedor where we eat all of our meals).  The normal rice, beans, tortillas,...