Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2016


Work Like a Local/Aid & Development July 16, 2016


Hola to friends and family in the US! Today we, the co-leaders of the day, were in charge of leading our fellow glimpsers in “Working like a local” day. The day started with a 6am wakeup call. We all had a very humbling experience working on a coffee plantation...

Final Reflection Day


Today we woke up at 7, we had omelets with white bread, a choice of pineapple or banana, and cantaloupe juice. Next we had an energizer called Ninja at 9 where we have to make a ninja pose and try to “hit” another person’s hand by only making one...

Day 17: Final Reflection Day!


Hola amigos! My name is Arriana and I had the pleasure of being leader of the day today. This morning I woke everyone up at 7:00am in order for us to enjoy our last full day here in Leon. When the team was ready we walked to Imabite for breakfast in which we had Gallo...

Fun Day!!


Hello to all the families back home! Today we had our second fun day at the Monkey Hut lake. Our day kicked off with a 5 o’clock wake up and ate breakfast on the road at 6:30. It was a 3 hour ride to the lake… fun. 🙂 We arrived to Mirador de Catarina at...

Bienvenidos a León!!!


Holaaaaa Glimpsers and Leaders, we bid you a very warm welcome! This is Nancy and Noel, (N & N, get it ? lol) . We are your “Fun-tastic” program coordinator and site manager excited to have you with us in León this summer. We have put a lot of effort in designing...

7/16 Lagoon Day


Hello Everybody. Today after a looonnnnnggggggg week of hard work, it was finally our fun day! We started off by waking up at 6am…. fun. We then had breakfast at 6:30; fruit and conchas. We then had a very VERY long bus drive to Caterina where we were all able...

Global Business


Hey there beloved friends and family! It it is Sloane from Berkeley High School. Today was a very busy day with an early start of 6 o’clock (resulting in nothing but happy faces all around, as expected). Our focus of the first half of the day was global business in...