Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2016


Day 3: Culture


Buenas tardes, familias y amigos! We had another fun-filled, informative day today! Our theme was culture and we got to experience a ton of new aspects of Nicaraguan cultura. For breakfast, we were served an American-style breakfast with cereal and fruit, but the rest...

Living Like A Local


Hola! Somos Michael y Jenna. Today was “Living like a Local” day, and it impacted us all differently. Personally, I was surprised to see how people lived with so little, but still loved life. People lived in houses the size of my living room, and cooked...

Heading Home!!!


                                                 Hi friends and families!!! Moca delegation 2 is headed home! Their 6:15 am flight departed on time from Santiago. cheers to a great delegation! Amelia

Day 3: Culture


Students are getting used to the basic routine of the day: breakfast, academic seminar in the morning, workshop, lunch, workshop, free time, dinner, nightly meeting. Today’s focus was culture, so we started the morning with a seminar about American and Latin American...

Self-Reflection Day July 22, 2016


  Wuz gouda cheese, is Naty DQ and Jazzy Swazzy! Today was the last day that the glimpsers had in the DR. The glimpsers started off their day with some scrumdieliumptious breakfast. After breakfast we went to the enramada to go reflect about the past 18 days we had in...

Culture Day!!


Hola from Matagalpa, Nicaragua! This is George and Jimmy doing the blog for Culture Day. As Leaders of the Day, we were tasked with making sure everyone was up on time, everyone had full water bottles, that they were accounted for, and that there were always good...

Day 2: History and Politics


Buenas noches, familias y amigos!  Today’s theme was history and politics. For breakfast today, we ate French toast, beans, and orange juice. We then returned to the hostel and had to show our dance moves in our daily ice breaker. Next, in our academic seminar...