Recent posts from: Leon2 – 6/30/2016


Day 5: Education


Hi everyone! It’s Jeffrey and Dania, just here to update everyone on another amazing day. After we woke up at 7am, we enjoyed dragonfruit juice, cheese filled tortillas, homemade salsa, and rice for breakfast at Imabite. We also delivered laundry for those who...

Leon Day 4: Aid and Development!


Hello families, friends and everyone else! It’s me, Luwam, writing to you as the first student leader! Today was Aid and Development day in which we focused on the pros and cons of providing aid to developing countries. We woke up at 7 am sharp, ate a delicious...

Leon Day 3: Culture


  Hola! Today was our Culture day! We woke up at 7 am and walked to the comedor for a traditional Nicaraguan breakfast spiced with pico de gallo and a cold glass of dragonfruit juice. After breakfast, we returned to the hostel and Molly, one of our lovely GG leaders,...

First glimpse of the city!


Note: My apologies! I thought I posted this and didn’t. Here is the blog from yesterday, June 1st 🙂 Today’s theme was History/Politics Day and we had a jam packed and fun first full day of the trip! We started off the morning with an Academic Seminar to learn...

We Made It To Leon!!!


Hello world! We all made it safe and sound to our beautiful little hostel in Leon! I will keep this short because it is late and we have a long day tomorrow but we wanted to let you know that so far everything is going great- spirits are high, we’ve been...

Bienvenidos a León, Nicaragua!


Hello Glimpsers, Leaders, and Parents! This is Kirsten and Brayan from Leon and we are SO excited for your arrival this summer! We have been hard at work preparing your schedule and we know you will enjoy BEAUTIFUL and WARM Leon! Leon is a fascinating city with a...

Our Trip Is Only One Week Away!


Hello Global Glimpsers! My name is Molly Pershin Raynor and I will be one of your leaders in Leon! It was great to meet some of you at the picnic on Sunday and nice to talk to many of you on the phone this past week. After getting to know some of you, I can tell we...