Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2015


Community Action Project – Day 1


The question of the day was: How can I help solve the worlds problems? What can I do to be part of the change? People could have completely different responses to this question, but to me, there’s no answer. The reason I believe there’s no answer to this...

Working Like a Local 8/7


Hi, everyone! Today’s theme was Working Like a Local. We woke up at 4:00 a.m. and ate breakfast on the bus on the way to Empalme de la Bastille. At the Empalme we rode on the back of a pick-up truck to the La Bastilla Ecolodge Technical School where we divided into...

8/7/15 Community Action Project 1 and 2


Today we started our first two phases of our Community Action Project. What the Community Action Project or CAP  aims to achieve is strengthening community bonds and build teamwork skills within our Global Glimpse group. Today we woke up at seven in the morning which...

U is for U and Me!


Hello friends and family! My name is Brett Beardsley and I am happy to say our second fun day was a blast! Our day began at the early hour of 5:00 AM. After a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs and beans and rice, we hopped on a two hour bus ride to Somoto Canyon....

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...

Global Business


Hello, my name is Beagan Nguy, a 17 year old glimpser from Lincoln High School in San Francisco. The day I chose to be the leader was Global Business day. I chose this day because I thought, “Wow! How great would it be to lead a day that was related to...

Global Business


Hello our future and present Glimpsers, our names are De’zha and Bianca and we were the leaders of the day for global business. Today we went to the Sugar Cane factory called The Consorcio en Barahona,  Unfortunately we were not able to see the actual Bateys due...