Recent posts from: JA2B Jarabacoa 7-9-2019


Deconstructing Poverty


Hey guys, welcome back to our blog! It’s Belinda and Jenie here, your LDDs for Deconstructing Poverty Day. We began the day at 6:00 am with “Gasolina” blasting through Cara’s speakers. We went around knocking on everyone’s doors making sure that they wake up on time....

Fun Day!


Hey everyone! It’s Alondra! Today was adventure fun day and I was lucky to be leader of the day. I woke everyone up by blasting music outside their rooms and then we had breakfast and headed out. We went to a GORGEOUS waterfall called Baiguate Waterfall. We went in...

Working Like a Local Day!


What’s up friends and family!!!  Evelyn and Evelin (the Evelyin’s) coming at you with the blog of the day. Being LDD today sure wasn’t easy, but we pushed through and made everything work. It all started this morning when we woke up late unintentionally, today’s...

Free Day #1!


Hey blog readers!  It’s your very tired but nonetheless excited Marcella here to catch you up on what we all did on our first free day of the trip!  As LDD today, I took it upon myself to wake up my fellow Glimpsers at 8 am with a very loud, “WAKE UP! BREAKFAST IN...

Living Like A Local Day!


WHAT IS UP it’s Megan and Azalea, just checking in after our first day living like Dominican locals! We woke up bright and early at 6:15am with a beautiful acapella rendition of LA CUCARACHA. There were also covers of show tunes for Kelly (we love Kelly and show...

Aid & Development Day!


Hello Family and Friends!!! It’s Grace here, the first LDD of our trip. I was definitely extremely nervous to be the first LDD, but Kelly and Cara, as well as the PCs help guided me through the day. I started the day off by waking up all the kiddos by yelling “Goooood...

Culture Day!


Along with the sounds of roosters, the Glimpsers were woken up to energetic knocking on their door and “The Final Countdown” playing followed by bachata music for the first hour of the day this morning. Students met us outside on the balcony (which is our...