Recent posts from: CH1B Chitre 6-25-2019


Living Like a Local


Hola familias! Our names are Jazlyn and Freddy, and today we lead our fellow Glimpsers through an exciting trip to the community Paris. While there, the Glimpsers were split between seven families where they were able to converse with the families to see what their...

Free Day #1


Greetings everyone! My name is Asia, and today I have been leader of the day. Over the course of the last five days our entire group has worked extremely hard to handle the challenges given to us, and today has been a day to decompress all the stress built up. As a...

Feeling Like a Farmer at Finca Pamel


Jazmine’s Perspective: Today was one of my favorite days. It was great being Lider Del Dia with my co Leader Ben.  We woke up super early in the morning around 6 AM, had breakfast, then headed to Finca Pamel, a family-owned farm. The farm was located in the town...

Escuela Paris


Hola y bienvenidos to our Chitre trip blog! My name is Brandon, and I somehow ended up as the first Lideres del Dia, or Leader of the Day. Today’s central focus was aid and development, and we had another action-packed day to explore the nuances and...

La Denesa y mas!


Buena buena, everyone! Thanks for checking in on our adventures in Chitre! Today was Culture Day for CH1B, so we had the amazing opportunity to learn about Panamanian culture from some of the local artisans here in Chitre. Before we could do that though, we had to get...

Day One in the Books!


  Hello from Chitre! Today was our first full day in country, and the focus of the day was history. After grounding ourselves in today’s question, “how does the history of Panama impact the present”, we set out for a tour of Casco Viejo. This...

CHICAGO MEETS PANAMA


After a long day of travel, CH1B has arrived in Panamá! The group met us, their PCs, in the airport where everyone got a chance to get to know each other and discuss what they’re excited to accomplish during this trip. From the airport, we went to Hotel Gemar in...