Recent posts from: Riobamba2 – 7/31/2016


How Our Consumer Choices Can Affect Globalization


How do your consumer choices affect globalization and vise versa? Today’s theme was Global Business. We visited two different markets in Riobamba and we had the chance to compare and contrast the two different markets to the markets we have at home. When we...

Living Like a Local


Good evening family and Friends. I am Sedeq Ahmed and I was the ELDD of today. Today we learned that  no matter how high the mountain is we can over come it as a team. Today we saw our whole team over come this huge obstacle. We learned never to give up even if our...

Adventure of the Andes


Today was that day, that day we will look back and say “I haven’t been this proud of myself in a long time.” This was the day that we were all looking forward to; however, we had doubts. It all started the night before; we had our first free day on...

Free to roam our home


Today my fellow glimpsers and I had the opportunity to explore Riobamba on our own using maps, general knowledge, and teamwork to navigate our new home.  We started the day by getting some extra sleep and headed out to breakfast at Cafe del Tren.  After arriving back...

Where Food Comes From


Today was Aid and Development day, and it turned out to be amazing. We started off by waking up at 7:00 am, and walked to Cafe del Tren to enjoy our wonderful breakfast as we do every morning. From there we had our Aid and development mental warm up, everyone was very...

Working like a Local – Minga


Today is August 6 and our fifth day in Ecuador.Today’s theme of the day was working like a local. We also learned a lot about minga which is the Kichwa word for when the community comes together to work together for a greater good such as providing healthy food...

History and Culture


Quotes of the day- ” The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future” Theodore Roosevelt “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people” Mahatma Gandhi Today’s theme was History...