Recent posts from: Esteli1 – 6/28/2016


Day 9 ~ A Day Full Of Adventures


Waking up at 4:45 am, we started the day with the view of the sunrise as we made our way to Catarina, a place for tourists to arrive and buy memorable souvenirs. We were accompanied by two firefighter who we got to see in action. Unfortunately there had been a...

Day 8 ~ Opening Our Eyes to a DIfferent Light


Life is filled with new experiences and opportunities where you can encounter amazing people with stories that warm your heart. Today we visited a beautiful community called La Aldea where children and teens with difficult backgrounds are motivated and encouraged to...

Day 7 – POVERTY


Poverty in many minds means variety of things. We learned to appreciate it and understand why it happens to so many. To understand, we need to see what they see. To do that, we went on a field trip today to meet up with Dona Francisca, one of the many dumpster...

Day 6 – Living Like a Local


animales de isiqui habtesh wiping away the tears of this little boy…awwww sheila and beth with their family in isiqui skarleth and senora joclyn hard at work doing laundry margeaux and heyssel bus ride back to esteli… 1st day of classes… michelle,...

Day 5 Free Day


We had a change of plans today. Instead of having a fun day, we decided to use one of our free days because a few of us were still not feeling well. Since we stayed at the hostel today, we had the chance to walk around Esteli and purchase gifts and snacks. We were...

Day 4- Aid and Development Day


  Greetings from Esteli! Today I got the privilege to be the leader of the day and it surely was a roller-coaster! We woke up this morning  and 3 of the girls didn’t feel well. So sadly we had to leave them behind with our trusty Global Glimpse Leaders, and...

Day 3 ~ Culture


  I know that Erika and I have been writing all the blogs but I promise tomorrow we will begin with our first student El Lider Del Dia presenting the blog. I was the ELDD for today so I get the privilege to write one more blog. We are settling into our daily...