Recent posts from: Matagalpa2 – 7/01/2016


7/11 LIVING LIKE A LOCAL


Hola fam! Today we woke up at 6am to a $1 breakfast: gallo pinto and a dinner roll. Following that, we drove down a bumpy road to Comunidad Llano Grande, a rural community. There, we experienced life as locals. We were all welcomed with open arms. Once we walked into...

7/10 Free Day #2


We woke up at eight-thirty Took a shower so you couldn’t catch us riding dirty Ate some bomb yogurt with my playas’ Put some fruit in it, add some flavas’ Left the crib to hit the town Call me Queen Haley, gimme dat crown Kept my Cordobas banded...

7/9: Half of the Trip


Sorry the blog wasn’t given to you last night. I know you guys wanted to hear about the wonderful day we had yesterday. Yesterday was July 9th, that means it was Anthony’s birthday- HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ANTHONY!- and we only have half of the trip left....

Education Day


So today went a bit differently than usual. Our regularly scheduled program, which was to shadow several students at one of the Nicaraguan high schools, was changed when we found out the Nicaraguan students were on break. Moreover, our Global Glimpse leaders, Mrs....

Working like a local


Today, us Glimpers had a veryyyyy earlyyyyyyyyy morning. We had a amazing, ecstatic, and wonderful wake up call at 4:30 am. ( YAYY!!) By 5:30 we were on the bus, on our way to a farm, called La Canavalia. After having Scrambled eggs, Gallo Pinto, and Cheese for...

Free Day #1


Humor Disclaimer: The content below is intended as humor.   **DE-CLASSIFIED** **FOR AUTHORIZED EYES ONLY** **PHOTOGRAPHS WILL NOT BE MADE PUBLIC** 0800 HOURS: Glimpsers awaken to the cadence of hard knocks. Glimpsers then proceed to prepare for the coming day. 0900...

Aid and development Day


It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood today, not too hot or too cold. It was just right. We started the day off with ham, eggs, and toast with Jamaica juice… extremely delicious. Afterwards we had a very deep conversation about Aid and Development, many of...