Our Hostel “Dilenia’s”
Today after breakfast our students were a little more rested and ready for our first full day in Constanza. We started off learning about the GG rules, culture of our town and some history of the Dominican Republic. We also made a group agreement with guidelines from the students to build a safe culture for our own trip group. For example, we talked about respect, privilege, respecting different cultural values, supporting each other and looking out for each other. 
Students working in our hostel dining room.
After lunch we me our local ambassadors. The local ambassadors are high school students from Constanza recruited and trained by Global Glimpse to support our students during different activities on our trip. They will all get to know each other and this way the students can get to learn more about the local culture.
John guiding us on our city tour.
Street near our hostel.
Students walking in the local park.
When the local ambassadors arrived we went on a city tour with everyone. One of the stops was City Hall, The Plazoleta, La Fortaleza, we learned about the Dominican independence leaders as well as visiting the fire station and meeting with the fire chief to learn about their work in Constanza. We ended at a baseball field where some young kids were practicing. The students enjoyed playing with them a little bit and arm wrestling! Lastly we went and had some local ice cream!
Some of our students eating ice cream.
In the afternoon we had some free time for students to relax and then a workshop called “Self Reflection” before dinner, followed by our routine evening meeting. Then students head to bed to get ready for tomorrow.
Constanza is beautiful!
Hi Carmen?. I hope your 2nd day in Constanza was eventful. I miss you so much but like you said, time will fly by. Goodnight carmen, and im glad you made it there safely.
Nice to see you April! Hope everyone is having a great time.
hey tia! thank so much for your comment! Cant wait to tell you all the experiences
love you
Hi Neha hope you are having good time out there. Nice to see you in the pics. Take care !!!
Hi Papa! Miss you all soooo much, having a lot of fun! Eating all the Indian snacks. I miss our family and Punjabi music.
Hi Mia, lots of love from us here! Looks so beautiful there.
Hey Nolan, hope you are having a great time meeting new people and learning about the Dominican Republic culture.
Hi Stacy! I hope you are having an amazing time! Love you lots <3
Max- hope you are having a great time. Loved the photo of you arm wrestling!! M&D
Thanks mom.
-Max
Stacy! So cool to see you in the group pictures, I miss you already and hope to hear all about your experiences
Hi Cameron G.,
Hope you are having an amazing experience. It looks like a very beautiful country from the pictures on the blog. Really love seeing you in the photos. Ferdie says hi. Nadel won the French Open. Can’t wait to see more picture and story updates. Have fun teaching and learning. Love you, Mom, Dad, S. P. & Ferdie
Hey Tanya,
Today it clicked that I could talk to you here. But you know us, always late to the game.
Anyways, on the second day, Mom and Camila, had it bad. Believe it or not, Camila had her moments were she remembered you where gone and would start to cry. As for mom, she would just talk about how she misses you. Also, she’s a little offended that you called dad before her. And dad, well you know him, he doesn’t really express his emotions but I know he misses you. And finally, to the good part, I miss you. But I’m not sad because I know you are having fun.
P.S. I sent Alejandro a snap 😉
Hi Stacy. I can’t get over this!! You must be thrilled. I am thrilled and excited that you get to experience something like this. A different country, different cultures, and different values. I can’t get over all of the pictures!!!! It’s great!! I love you lot’s