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Student Trip Blogs

Each evening, the Student Leaders of the Day write a daily trip blog, sharing everything from funny moments and inside jokes to detailed recaps and deep reflections on their experiences. Family and friends back home leave supportive comments as they follow along. Explore some of our Alumni Interns’ favorite blogs from 2024 or search all student trip blogs below.

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Meet Your GGL! (No. 2)

Hello, Glimpsers and Families! My name is Maggie Madden, and I’m one of your GGLs (Global Glimpse Leaders)! I’m excited to get to know…
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Adventurous Day!!

Hola amigos y familia!! Adam and Narain here to recap our eventful day, starting off at 5:45 am. Waking everyone up was a tiring…
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Aid & Development Day (No. 3)

Pura Vida families! This is Alex and Prerita with a crash course of our day today. We had gallo pinto, fruit, eggs, salad, and…
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Community Action Project – Day 1! (No. 7)

https://globalglimpse.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WhatsApp-Video-2023-06-11-at-5.53.42-PM-1.mp4   Today, we began the central project that we have been preparing for all trip- our community action project, in which we build…
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City Tour and Culture Day

Greetings, all! Some of the students and I were just discussing over dinner that although it seems like we have been here for a…

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Hi! (No. 33)

Hello!! My name is Alex Christie and I am an introverted person that doesn’t travel often. I applied to the GG trip for the…
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Community Day (No. 15)

Today for Community Day, Mario, Alba, Anna, and Oswaldo were the Leaders of the Day! We had four leaders due to splitting up the…
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Free Day! 🙂 (No. 19)

 On June 10th, Sydney and Venezia were Leaders of the Day, ready to serve lunch to the Glimpsers.   Our group was ready to…
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LIVING LIKE A LOCAL (No. 2)

“It’s not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize accept, and celebrate those differences” – Audre Lorde Today, was our…
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Welcome to Costa Rica♥ (No. 9)

HELLO, GLIMPSERS! WE ARE SO HAPPY!  THE TIME TO MEET YOU ALL HAS ARRIVED! This is Adrián González and Leydianis González from Orosi 1A …