Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2015


The Start of Something Beautiful


After a gruesome challenge which included having my face tampered by my fellow companions, I am happy to present the first day of our community action project as the lider del dia. For me personally, the community action project, CAP for short, was one of the events...

CAP Day 1


Hey…. Hoo…… Its Florence coming to you live from Granada, Nicaragua. So today is my turn to be El Lider Del Dia and it was a very challenging experience. Today is CAP 1 Day. CAP stands for Community Action Project. Our project is to help beautify a school in a rural...

Palmar de Ocoa Fun Day #2


Hello Everyone! My name is Natalia Ramirez. I am a sixteen year old attending Impact Academy of Arts and Technology in Hayward, Ca. I was leader of the day for the second fun day today and it was really fun. Today we woke up at 7:30 am and left our hotel at 8:30 am to...

Shock. Hunger. Misery. Poverty. Reality


Many of us claim to be something we are not. In many cases, some of us claim to be rich, popular, or poor. However, we don’t realize that there are billions of people in the world that can’t escape their reality. “I’m poor” we often hear...

Waterfall!


Hello! Yesterday was a busy, yet fun day. We started our day by waking up at 7 AM and getting ready to go to the Aguas Blanca’s, which is the tallest waterfall in the Caribbean. We took a safari which took 1 to 2 hours. It was a fun and bumpy ride that felt like we...

Playa Boca Chica Free Day 2


Hello family and friends from the United States, I hope your Monday was amazing because I know ours was. Today after many hours of hard work, dedication, and careful planning, we were able to embark on an amazing journey to a Carribean beach with soft sand and...

Fun Day!!!


  Hello friends and family’s my name is Camille Johnson and I was El Lider del Dia for our final Fun Day! I chose this day in particular because I knew the main event was volcano boarding and I’m all about fun! We began our morning at 6:45 a.m., which...