Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2017


Living like a Local!


Hello! This is Angela Chung and Juliessa Chavez, and today we shared the Leader of the Day responsibility. Today the theme was living like a local and to kick the day off, we started with a bucket shower, where students weren’t allowed to use running water, and...

Free Day 1


Today in Riobamba we had our first free day. We all spent the day walking around, doing some shopping and many more things. In the morning after breakfast at Cafe del Tren, one group of us went to the internet cafe to call our family members, check our emails and the...

Updated arrival information for C2C


Parents/Guardians/Friends of C2C Glimpsers, As many of you know, the group arrived safely in Panama City this morning but their flight to Santiago, DR was cancelled by Copa Airlines. Copa re-booked the whole group on a different flight to the DR arriving in Santo...

DAY 7: Free Day Numero Uno!


**This post is a day late due to our power outage last night** Hello everyone, My name is Jared Franklin and I was the leader of the day for our first free day! During free day, we split up into two big groups and went around Granada and did some sight seeing and...

Day 15: Hasta Pronto Bonao!


Our last day in Bonao was full of memories, reflection, gratitude, laughter and tears. We reflected for hours about or experience by creating journey maps about what has meant the most in our time in DR, created mission statements about our actions for the future and...

Aid and Development


Hello! Our morning consisted of the Peace Corps organization coming to the accommodation and giving a seminar on what they do here in the Dominican Republic. They are an organization of people who come from the United States and volunteer to live in different parts of...

Deconstructing Poverty


Hello Family and Friends, This is Tammy and Tiffany. Today was truly an emotional day as we worked to deconstruct the cycle of poverty and begin our aid and development. Our first activity after breakfast was the Privilege Walk, in which we vulnerably discussed the...