Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2014


Community Action Project – Delivery


Hello everyone! Today, our final day of CAP and English tutoring, was extremely bitter-sweet in the best of ways. Our morning started at 6 AM to get a head start to conquer our very packed schedule. We fueled our tummies and spirits with omlettes, beans, tortillas,...

Matagalpa 2 Day 16 – CAP DELIVERY DAY 3


Harro bloggers. Today was the final day of the CAP and as leaders, we felt so happy to say that we all stuck together as a team and finished renovating the library. We started like always. We woke up at 5:45. Like usual, we went to breakfast and then as energizer we...

Day 17-CAP Delivery Day 2


With the on going pressures of finishing the childrens playhouse CAP delivery day 2 was both a success and a day for improvements. To quickly summarize our daily activities we arose at dawn to eat breakfast and to begin planning the rest of our work day. We departed...

Cap Delivery 1


As my second go around as leader, I faced obstacles and overcame many milestones.  To start off the day I had the task of waking up 18 weary teenagers and 2 exhausted leaders up from rest. However, my persistent banging on doors and ranting was just enough to get...

Politics Day


Wow, so what a day it has been. Very few days in my mind seemed to have been so long. And that is not meant in a bad way – the day was fun. We started with the wakeup call, which I could have done better by asking for special preferences for wakeup call… instead...

“Teamwork makes the dream work!”


Imagine two rowdy teenagers at your bedroom door screaming “Rise N’ Shine” at six o’clock in the morning. You’re groggy from the day before, yet you are equally as excited to get started on your Community Action Project (CAP). Then you go...

MARIPOSARIO FUN DAY


Today was a very interesting day because it was FUN DAY.  Starting with the wake up call of 7 in the morning to get ready to eat a delicious breakfast of Gallo Pinto, guacamole with tortillas and a fruit punch drink.  After that, the day became so much more brighter...