Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2016


CAP Day 1!


August 9th, Day 15 Hello families and friends back home! We miss you all dearly. This morning we woke up and got ready for our busy day. We had a delicious breakfast which contained hot chocolate, bread with butter, fruits, and huevos revueltos (scrambled eggs with...

CAP DAY NUMERO UNO


Hey guys! Today was a very productive day which included the beginning of our first community outreach project. We started the day off at 7am and ate a delicious BEAKFAST. Around 9am we left on the bus to El Cacique. El Cacique is the community that we are helping to...

Paving a New Road, Literally.


Today was definitely an extraneous day. Our first day working on our Community Action Project. Today wasn’t very much focused on learning something, there were no speakers or seminars, just the group going to a community to work. Our CAP project seemed very low...

Meeting the next president of the DR


Today was a really awesome day for all of us. We got to meet the potential future president of the Dominican Republic – I say “potential” because he shared with us that although, he was the youngest of 14 candidates, he came in 7th. His name was...

Last Day


Hello families and friends! Today we are spending few more hours in Leon before we head back to our families. The past two and half weeks have been extremely exciting and adventerous for all the glimpsers. With only few hours left for our departure, we all are feeling...

Fun Day 2


Episode 14: The Return of Giovanni Hello family and friends. Our names are Erik Ramirez and Corrina Chung, and we are the Leaders Del Dia for our 14th day here in beautiful San Cristobal. Today was a free day and this gave us the opportunity to lay back, catch up on...

Living Like a Local


Hello world! It’s your Lideres Del Dia Yoko and Corina Condori! Today was Living Like a Local Day. We ventured off to explore and assimilate ourselves in the Dominican culture and lifestyle. For one whole day, we were left without electricity and had to manually...