Recent posts from: Jinotega – 7/21/2016


Day 17: Final Reflection


For final reflection day we had our typical wake up call at 7am, and headed over to La Familiar for breakfast which consisted of eggs, bread, gallo pinto, and starfruit juice to wash it down. Afterwards we began our hike up to La Pena De La Cruz, accompanied by a few...

Day 16: Free Day!


Hey everybody! Today was our second to last day here in Jinotega and our final free day of exploration, adventure, and purchases via cool cordobas. Today our day was relatively easy; we woke up at 8:00am, ate, wandered, ate, wandered some more, and then celebrated the...

Return Flight Information


Hello Family and Friends of J1C Glimpsers, We know you all are excited for the upcoming return of the students on Sunday night/ Monday morning, so we wanted to update you all with their flight information: The students will be arriving at SFO at 12:01AM, Aug...

Day 15: CAP Day 3!


Today we continued our CAP project. After we finished securing the last pieces of gypsum, we began to paint the walls white and blue. When lunchtime came along, we stopped and passed out our lunches (we bought some for the dads and our English tutoring students that...

Day 14: CAP Day 2!


Good evening everyone! My name is Ritika Chaunkaria and I was the Leader of the Day for today. Our wonderful day started with my special wake up call involving a loud-speaker blasting Punjabi music through the doors of my delegations’ rooms. It was to the likes...

Day 13: CAP Day 1


Hey hey curious people, today was like all the others, except we finally began our CAP (community action project)! The day began like all of the rest — we woke up, had a pretty good breakfast– you know the usual. During the morning, before we got busy on...

Day 12: Fair Trade is the Way to GO!!


At First I signed up for global business day because it was the last option on the check list, but then it hit me that this day was meant for my leadership. This day started with me overcoming my first challenge which was waking up early at 6:30am and ready to go...