Recent posts from: Constanza – 7/28/2016


My Thoughts On Being A Leader


For me I have learned how to delegate work to other people as a leader of the day because I know I can’t do everything without the help of my peers to help support me. For example, today I had to remember all the information of the day, make sure everybody is doing...

Our Home Away From Home


Bucket showers, no electricity, no money-wasting, no snacks, outhouses; all the Glimpsers groaned and asked a variety of questions on what their “Living Like a Local” day would be like. It seemed like such a huge shift from reality, but we actually were only dipping...

Facing Political Challenges in the DR


Hi my name is Tania. Today I was the Leader of the Day for Politics Day. My peers and I have learned a lot today especially because we were visited by one of the government leaders, Armando, and the Mayor of Constanza, Ambiorix. We learned that Global Glimpse is not...

Freestyle


****We apologize, but the team is experiencing difficulties with uploading our photos. We hope to resolve this issue by tomorrow.***** Hi, I am Huiyin Lei, and I was the leader of the first free day of our summer trip. I was very excited, but also nervous about being...

Fun Day, August 3rd


Today was our first Fun Day here in Constanza. We started off our day by waking up at six. The Glimpsers and I had breakfast at Dilenia’s and soon after, our Ambassadors and Peace Corps member, Scott arrived. We were divided off into two safari trucks to travel to...

¡La Vida de un Jornalero!


Today was Working Like A Local Day. After breakfast, we headed off to a tomato greenhouse farm called La Sabina. We met the person who managed the greenhouses and its jornaleros (workers). Everyone was partnered with one other student and then we went to work with one...

Global Business Day


Hello I am Amaya! Today we went to a farm and a cucumber factory. We saw pepper farm. We learned about what kind of pesticides they use and how the peppers are grown. Later in the day we went to the cucumber factory and saw how cucumbers are cleaned, waxed, and...