Recent posts from: Esteli1 – 7/26/2015


Day 10: Poverty


Hi all family and friends! My name is Kalvin Lam and I currently attend Evergreen Valley High School (San Jose, CA). Today was a day filled not only with fun and excitement, but also with life changing and stressful moments. Rising early at 5AM, our delegation...

Living like a local!


Hey everyone! Hi our names are Sharmayne and James and we were the leader of the day for living a $1 a day. We had a great experience living like a local in the rural areas. Today, we woke up at 5:30 and left the hostel around 6am. 😴💤Because we had to...

F is for friends who do stuff together…


Buenos dias familia y amigos (Hello family and friends)! My name is Waleed and today I had the wonderful opportunity of being El Lider del Día on our very first fun day! We started our day by waking up at 5:00 A.M. and headed out to officially start our fun day at...

FIRST FUN DAY!


Hello family and friends my name is Bryanna and I am a fellow Glimpser that had the pleasure to be the leader of the day today! Today we had a free day and we split into two individual groups and roomed around the beautiful city of Esteli. It was a very relaxing day...

CAP Excitement!


Hi my name is Michael Campos! Today we went to see a non government organization known as INPRHU. INPRHU focuses mainly on educating kids about helping out their communities. INPRHU is the oldest non governmental organization in Nicaragua and has many volunteers, some...

Shadow Day and Intro to CAP Project!


Today the glimpsers learned what it was like to be a teenage student going to a private Catholic high school in Nicaragua, from waking up at 5:00 in the morning to sitting in the natural environment of the students’ daily schedule. Socially, we found out we had...

Politics & English Tutoring


Today more than the previous days made us think critically of the country in which we reside.  It made us consider the country’s history even more so than the day before. We learned everything from the political parties beginning at the end of a corrupt...