Recent posts from: Trip Blogs 2019


“Living Like a Local” For a Day


Hello friends and families, my name is Reevan Cole and I am 17 years old. I was born and raised in Berkeley, California and I currently attend Envision Academy located in Downtown Oakland. Today I was honored with the wonderful opportunity to be the Leader of the Day...

Day 13: Cap Day 1


Hey everyone, it’s David! Today marks our first Community Action Project day, where we started the foundation of the community center for the locals of El Llano. We were transported to El Llano early this morning, and we started working at 9:15am. It was very...

Working Like a Local!


¡Buenas noches familia! Greetings from Panama! Today I was Líder del Día (Leader of the Day, LDD), which meant I was responsible for waking everyone up and getting them to breakfast by 8:30 am. Thankfully, the bus arrived quickly and we got to meet a local artisan...

Day 10: FUN DAY/ADITYA’s BDAY


**PLEASE COMMENT ON THE BLOGS!! WE READ THEM EVERY DAY** Hi Everybody, Leaders of the Day (LDD), Aditya and Anson here. Today we woke up super early at 6AM for our Fun Day, which is also Aditya’s birthday.  To start off the day, we walked to Roma Santa for...

Cap 3


Today is August 3, today was the final day of the CAP (Community Action Project). One of the Glimpsers named Lauryn gave a motivational speech about how we should finish off strong and with our heads high. Also she told us to keep in mind what we came here for and to...

Global Businesses/ Deconstructing Poverty


Today was a very emotional and eye opening day as we learned about the sugar cane business, got a tour of a major sugar cane factory and talked to community members that used to work in the business. We first traveled to Consorcio Azucarero Central Barahona where we...

TA1C Return Flight Information


Hello Family and Friends of the TA1C Global Glimpse delegation, We know you’re excited to see your Glimpsers after these two weeks, so we thought we would share a reminder about the return flight information so you know when and where to pick them up from the airport!...