Recent posts from: Riobamba – 7/26/2015


NYC Explores Education Day!


Buenos Dias! Today I decided to wake the glimpsers up early, six thirty, in order to ensure that they arrived to breakfast on time. To my surprise it worked and we were done with breakfast by 7:45; fifteen minutes earlier than scheduled. After breakfast, we played a...

Global Business Day


Hey Guys, It’s Eliezer here, giving a little summary about our Global Business Day here in Riobamba, Ecuador. We had a late wake up  at  7:00 am today and had an amazing egg sandwhich at breakfast at 7:30. At around 8:00 a.m we began our day with a 15 minute...

Fun Day 1: Gateway To The Amazon


Hey Guys, Monique and Genesis here. Today was our first Fun Day, which was going to a waterfall that was located at the entrance to the Amazon rainforest. Our day started at 6:00 AM and we had to be ready by 6:30 in order to get on the bus and be on our way. We had...

CAP Delivery Day 1


Hey Guys, This is Lawrence Perdomo and Stephanie Garcia. Today was an exciting and tiring day; however, we were able to do what we had to do to be successful in our very first CAP (Community Action Project) Day. We started off with a 6:00 AM wake up call and had to be...

Working Like a Local


Hey Guys, Ty here. It was our very first joint ELDD and Habeeb and I had the opportunity to be the first ones. Starting off with a 5:30 AM wake-up, we had to be ready to leave the hostel at 6:15 AM taking our breakfast on the go to on our Reality Challenge: Working...

First Free Day!


As the third leader of the day, I was able to lead the first free day. First, the group woke up at 8:00am, a bit later than usual. A lot of us were glad to sleep in for an extra hour. I made rounds to wake everyone up by knocking on their doors. After, we had...

Aid and Development Day


Hello, Today we went back to the indigenous peoples’ community, Cacha, to meet a special guest, the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. At first we took a bus until the police stopped the bus and told us we couldn’t pass by because the president was...