Posted in Riobamba2 - 6/17/2016 by Annie Krumholz and Paola De La Cruz
Hola familias, Today we started our day with breakfast at El Tren. We had grilled cheese (eggs with veggies for the gluten free folks), bananas and an oatmeal drink. After breakfast, we drove to Mt. Chimborazo where we took pictures at a high altitude of 15,700 feet....
Posted in Riobamba2 - 6/17/2016 by Kijai Banks and Sebastian McAlister
What’s up people, Hope your day went as amazing as ours went in Riobamba. Today was our second day working on our community action project at Instituto de Educacion Especial Carlos Garbay. Our CAP project consisted of building cages for the Cuy (guinea pig) and...
Posted in Riobamba2 - 6/17/2016 by Global Glimpse Staff
Hello Family and Friends of RB2A Glimpsers, We know you all are excited for the return of the students on Monday, so we wanted to update you all with their flight information: The students will be arriving at ORD at 12:00PM on Delta Flight #812 into the Domestic...
Posted in Riobamba2 - 6/17/2016 by Betsy Barthelemy and Alva Chavez
Salutations from Riobamba! Today we had the opportunity, and challenge, of being El Lider del Dia, ELLD. When we signed up to be co-ELLDs, we didn’t realize what we had gotten ourselves into. Today was our first CAP delivery day, so it was the first time we got...
Posted in Riobamba2 - 6/17/2016 by William Hoffenkamp
Today, for the first time during the trip, we had a large amount of free time during which we were allowed to leave the hostel and visit various places around Riobamba without the guidance of the GGLs. In our morning free time, some students gathered materials for our...
Posted in Riobamba2 - 6/17/2016 by K'Lynn Brown
Today’s theme was Poverty Day. We started off with another wonderful breakfast at Cafe Del Tren followed by the mental warm up that focused on Poverty in Ecuador. After that students traveled to Casa de la Mujer where we learned about the organization. Case de...
Posted in Riobamba2 - 6/17/2016 by Taylor West and Bernadette Itzkow
In the United States, we lead drastically different lives than we would if we lived in rural Ecuador. Specifically, in the community of El Molino right near Guamote, one of the poorest cities in Ecuador. Today, as part of our second Reality Challenge, we ‘Lived...
