Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2017


El Poder de la Historia


Salutations! What a DAY what a DAY what a DAAAAY! Parents and GG staffers, we have got us a delegation for the history books! Again, I cannot rain down (much like the weather did on us today 🙂 ) enough praise for the values of respect, patience, flexibility, and...

fun day


Today was a exciting day, from hiking an active volcano to presenting our CAP project to our CAP project partner, Blanca Rosa. There weren’t any dull or banal moments in our fun-packed day. The most exciting part of our day was sledding down the volcano that we...

Day 3 – Culture Day


Hello all! My name is Kendall Hefner. I was the first student leader of the day. Our theme of the day was the preservation of local customs through art. Our day started off with a trip to El Jalacate. El Jalacate is a place in the mountains founded by Alfonso...

Working Like a Local–Global Business


On this misty morning, we worked like day laborers by helping out in a vegetable greenhouse. While getting involved, we learned about agricultural business between the DR and the US by touring a cucumber exporting company called Agro Marketing. Today, with the help of...

Working like a local (7.27)


Hey guys, Our day started off by waking up at 7 AM and getting ready to work like a local at the Local Mercado. We had the opportunity to help local workers with selling their merchandise. It was a great experience for all our students since we had to come up with...

Fun Day! July 28, 2017


This morning, we had a wake up call at 6:00 so that we could all get ready to go to the Somoto Canyon here in Nicaragua. We headed out at about 7:00, and we ate our hearty breakfasts on the way to the canyon. On the way to the canyon, we picked up firefighters and...

Aid & Development Day


  Hello families and friends! My name is Marbella Daniel and today I was leader of the day so I get to write the first blog! Today we met with FLAM (Fundacion Literaria Anibal Montano), an organization for youth in the San Cristobal to write and share their...