Recent posts from: Leon2 – 6/12/2015


Day 10: Living on a Dollar a Day (6/21/2015)


Today 6-21-2015 We woke up at 5 in the morning of Reality Challenge: Living on a $1 day. We started the day by bucket showering with limited water.We could not eat or have much recourses  because we were living on a dollar a day to experience a $1 lifestyle. All of ...

June 20 Fun Day blog


Today was a fun day. The day was filled with very fun activities and mosquitos! Our day started at 7 am with a very delicious breakfast that consisted of pancakes, bananas, watermelon and pineapple. We then had a very fun tour filled with mosquitos at a National...

Leon Free Day 6/20/2015


My alarm woke me up at 6:30am. I woke up every one but the most memorable moment was when all of Luis’ friends gathered to wake him up to a birthday song. After that, we all headed to breakfast which was a Nicaraguan tamale with a unique consistency and texture....

Day 7: Aid & Development


Hey everyone!! Today has been a day like no other. There was a extreme last minute change in Leader of the Day due to the original leader becoming very ill with a fever.(He’s better now lol) We volunteered to serve and were named leaders of the day at 12:30 am...

Global Glimpse Politics


Today was a really interesting day in Leon. We got to meet a Nicaraguan lawyer who studied abroad and told us many opportunities of how to travel abroad. He sounded liberal but was a little conservative. We also got to meet a tour guide for a museum and he told us...

June 16, 2015 R.C. Shadow day


Hello families! Today we had a little more sleep then we did yesterday (we had an extra hour). As we gathered everyone we headed to breakfast which was not appealing to everyone. Some enjoyed a baloney sandwich while some passed. After we finished breakfast we headed...

Education Day- June 15, 2015


Hey Everyone! Today we got up early (for us) at 6am for our breakfast of omelets, beans, and toast….and we had A LOT of uneaten food.  After, we had an education seminar in which we learned about education in the U.S. and Nicaragua. Then, we went to a special...