Posted in Leon1 - 6/06/2016 by Wenting Hu
Hello friends, family, and the Global Glimpse Community! My name is Wenting Hu and today, I was the student leader for Global Business day. 6:00 AM Wake Up As leader of the day, it is my job to ensure that everybody wakes up and has enough time to get ready and...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/06/2016 by Kayla Tran and Charles Chau
Hello friends and family! It is your leaders of the day: Kayla and Charles. Today was our first reality challenge, Living Like A Local. In this day, we were not allowed to wear luxurious clothing (such as watches, necklaces, and bracelets), we couldn’t spend any...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/06/2016 by Karina
Today was the first of the various reality challenges that we are to encounter throughout this experience. We traveled to the Municipal Dump in Leon where we were prepared for experiencing poverty first hand here in Nicaragua. Yet, it was not as bad as it may have...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/06/2016 by Darzelle Oliveros
Hi friends, family, and the Global Glimpse community! I am Darzelle I am the Leader of the day. Today was our Free Day wherein we got to do a lot of fun activities and discover new sights in Leon. We started our day by going to the restaurant to have some breakfast....
Posted in Leon1 - 6/06/2016 by Luis
, Today (for the groups first fun day) was to go on an extravagant boat ride to reach the island “San Juan Venado”; after that we went to the beach. The trip to the island was very fun and exotic because it felt very tropical. When we were traveling...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/06/2016 by Molly Houston
Todaywe learned about the positive and negative effects of aid and development in developing counties. Something that I hadn’t thought about previously was the fact that giving free items, such as clothes or food, to people in developing countries can...
Posted in Leon1 - 6/06/2016 by Sonia Fonseca and Karilin Yiu
Crowded public bus ride. Students at Nicaraguan school for shadowing. Question and answer responses from Glimpses and Nicaraguan students. Today was a very jam packed day filled with fun activities and tours. We learned about the...
