Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2018


Day 11: Deconstructing Poverty Day


Today was an especially powerful day for the group as a whole. We learned so many things, whether our thoughts were conscious or subconscious. Dana Konner: One thing that I personally learned was that there are thousands of things that we, living in America, depend on...

Day 13: Cap Day 3, English Tutoring Graduation


To start off our day, we began with a 7:30 wake up call and headed to Roma Santa for a delicious breakfast made by Isabel. From there we took a bus trip, with our driver Don Victor, for our final CAP day at Utopia. The majority of us spent the time at Utopia painting...

CAP Day 3: Goodbyes


Hi! This is Drew Grossman and Emilie Amadi, today’s Lideres Del Dia (Leaders of the Day). Today began with an early 6:00 am wakeup. We spent an hour and a half picking up trash and weeding the grounds of La Fundacion. Understandably, the energy and morale were low,...

B1D Return Trip Information


Hello Family and Friends of B1D Glimpsers, We know you’re excited to see your Glimpsers after these two weeks, so below is the flight informationand reminders for when and where to pick them up from the airport. Students will arrive at ORD airport at 9:47...

Day 12: CAP Day 2


Hey everyone. Our day started with waking everyone up at 7 and walking over to Roma Santa for breakfast. When we were there we had granola, eggs, bananas and cake. After this we made our way over to Utopia to continue the work we started yesterday. So the different...

Free Day # 2


Today was our second free day, and the first real day where we are allowed to go out and explore on our own. Like the last free day, we had a walk in breakfast starting 8:30 a.m. After breakfast we had explore time, during which we could call our parents and go out in...

CAP Day 2


 Hello everyone! My name is Jada, and my name is Jaslim. Today we were Líderes del Día. We started our day with a lovely wake up call. Then we filled our bellies with some pancakes. YUM! Next, we made our way to the community to finish our cap project. There we helped...