Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2017


DAY 9 – FUN DAY!!


Hey guys, my name is Joanna Villeda and I was leader of the day for fun day. Today’s activity for today was going to Pico de Garza, which is an island located on a small island on the lake of Nicaragua. Wake up call was at 7:30 am, but as usual I was already up...

Living Like A Local


Hello families and friends, Today, as first Liders Del Dia (LDDs), we were able to experience living like a local. The day started off with an early wake up call, at 5:30am. Then we traveled as a group to our normal breakfast place: La Favorita. Except that this day,...

Immigration Day


Today was a very humbling and eye opening day being that it was Immigration Day. This was especially impactful, because some of us are immigrants or children of immigrants ourselves and the themes and topics of today hit close to home. Our mission was to understand...

Living Like a Local


Hello! This is Consuelo Frayle and Deicy Rodriguez. Today was “Living like a Local”. We had planned to wake up to see the sunrise on top of the roof at 5:30 am. We woke up our friends and we went to the roof top and waited until 6:30 and we barley saw a little bit of...

Living like a Local


Today we woke up at 7 and the topic of the day was living like a local. We got to experience what it’s like to live like a local from Leon Nicaragua in the community Thomas Borges. We were not allowed to spend more than $2 which is equivalent to 60 cordobas for...

First Free Day!


Hello Everyone! Today was our first Free Day Brionde: Today, we had our first free day. Everyone got split up with a leader or an ambassador. During our first free time, I was with a leader and we, along with four others, went to a small café that sold many pastries....

Ladies and gentlemen, we got them!


Hello everybody, We got them. Well at least the four Summer Search students from Seattle and Philadelphia. We were supposed to pick up all the students for the last delegation (M2C), but due to technical problems not the whole group could make it to Nicaragua today....