Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2015


Living on a $1 a Day.


Hi, my name is Chloe and I go to School of the Future in New York City. To start things off, being leader of the day wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. We were awoken by the sounds of band practice outside of our window as we proceeded to get ready for today’s...

Free Day #2


First off, I would like to share that we experienced our first BIG, HARD, and LOUD THUNDERSTORM in Nicaragua! We all acted as if we never experienced a thunderstorm before and jumped around screaming like monkeys. Or maybe we just haven’t had much rain in the Bay Area...

CAP FINALE!!!!!!!


¡Hola a todos! I am Albert Nessia and I was the leader of the day for our final day of working on our Community Action Project! The rest of the delegation and I have been working non-stop on our EcoPark project for the past two days and even though the process has...

First Free Day


      As the leader of the day, I did not know what to expect for our first free day. I had so many questions and horrible scenarios that were being played out in my mind. Will people get lost in town during their free time out? Will I be able to keep...

R.C. Working Like A Local


                Hi Everyone! My name is Dorothy Le, and I was the ELDD. The challenge of the day was working like a local. Today we all had a hard time waking up at 5 am, because the day before that was Free Day. We had...

Finding Happiness in $1


Hello my name is Ronald Brown and I was the GG leader of the day. Today my group and I took up a challenge of living on $1 a day. We experienced living in poverty with families in Los Francos, one of the most impoverished communities in San Cristobal. Here we helped...

Living on a Dollar a Day Challenge: El Molino Community


Hey everyone! Seermatie here, well today was a very exciting day in which the GG family did the “Living on a Dollar a Day” challenge meaning that the familiy we visited lives on less than one U.S. dollar each day. We all woke up at 5:30am and proceeded to...