Recent posts from: Riobamba2 – 7/09/2016


Day 17: Goodbye Riobamba


Today has been a very emotional day. We have said our goodbye’s to our fellow Glimpser, Cleiton, our breakfast providers, Carlos and Carmen, our lunch & dinner providers, Isabell, her son Nelson & the rest of her beautiful family, our hostel owner, Maria, also...

Our last experience: Chimborazo, Frida, Etc


“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” -Moliere This was today’s quote of the day, and I can say for sure that everyone in our group realized just how true it is. After an early, 6:20 wake up call, and a huge breakfast at Cafe...

RB2B Return Flight Information


Hello Family and Friends of RB2B Glimpsers, We know you all are excited for the return of the students on Tuesday morning, so we wanted to update you all with their flight information: The students will be arriving at JFK at 8:00AM on Tames Flight #550 into the...

CAP Day # 1


Hola! We were the leaders for the first day of the Community Action Project (CAP.) We were really nervous to be leaders today but we think that we did a pretty good job. The day started off with us taking an hour long bus ride to the Pusuca community. When we arrived...

Day 13: Free Day, Thursday July 21st.


Today, despite the title of this blog, the Glimpsers had a very busy and chaotic day. This is because though we were supposed to have a free day, we still had to finalize some things for our Community Action Project (CAP) and that was much work which required much...

Poverty/Awesome Day


“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” FDR The highlights of the day was visiting Unidad Educativa Miguel Angel Leon and our CAP...

What Does Happiness Mean to Global Glimpse?


The theme of today was to experience how it’s like living like a local.  Once the “El Lida Del Dia” torch was passed on to me, that was when most of the electricity in my hostel got shut off. In order to truly experience what it’s like to be in...