Recent posts from: Granada – 7/28/2015


Poverty Day


Good Evening, it’s the leader of the day, Jacky. Today is poverty day here at Granada, Nicaragua with group G1C. We started the day at 6 in the morning and had breakfast at our usual restaurant, la comedor la favorita. After breakfast, we headed out to the city dump...

LIVING ON $1 A DAY


          Today was a special day for all of us glimpsers. This day was designed for us to understand what it means to live on a $1 a day. First, we all took bucket showers. Then we ate Gallo Pinto, and went out to El Plantanal, where we will...

Global business day


Jordon Spence August 5th Wednesday 2015 Granada, Nicaragua Theme – Global Business Day Today we learned about global business and how sometimes it’s hard for businesses to thrive in developing countries. Bigger countries take advantage of developing countries...

Shadow a high school student


Hi, today is Tuesday August 4th education day. So this day was all about shadowing a high school student and visiting an after school program. The school that we went to was Colegio Maria auxiliadora. Colegio Maria Auxiliadora is a school run by nuns and is also a...

Fun Day


Today we started off our morning with delicious banana pancakes for breakfast. Next we took a bus to a boat where we toured the islands of Las Isletas, where we saw some huge and expensive, private homes; islands for sale; and friendly spider monkeys. Then we stopped...

The day everyone was waiting for… FREE DAY!


  Today was the day everyone was waiting for; the simple reason everyone was extremely excited to explore the beautiful city of Nicaragua, Granada. So today was completely the same when it came down to meals at Don Carlos. Everyone woke before 7:30 am in order...

Aid and Development Day


Today is our 5th day at the hostel in Nicaragua and its like everyone knew each other before coming on the trip. Today was definitely a day that everyone is going to remember and grow from. This morning, we were supposed to wake up at 6:00 AM and since my clock broke...