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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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Hey! I’m am very excited to be taking this trip with you all!

Hey, y’all! I hope all is well! My name is Arianna and I am very excited to be taking this trip with you all!…
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Greetings (No. 4)

  Hello everyone, My name is Joralis. This is my first time going out the country alone so I’m pretty nervous, but I know…
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Fun Day (No. 14)

Good  Evening Families, Today we traveled by bus to Chimborazo and, on the way, saw the vicuñas; (an animal that looked like a lama).…
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JA2C ARRIVAL DAY

Our delegation arrived safely to the Dominican Republic today at 5:45 PM and left the airport directly to Jarabacoa a wonderful city in the…
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Deconstructing Poverty Day

Hello everyone! It’s Mackenzie and Zaday your leader del Dias! Today we woke up at 7 AM and we had breakfast which was cereal…

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CAP Day 2 🙂 (No. 17)

Today, we started off with another early morning at 6:30 AM for the group. As usual, the leaders of the day (LDD) woke up…
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Beginning our Community Action Project!!

We started the day with an early wake-up time of 6:30 am. For breakfast, we had fruit and granola, bread, hard boiled eggs, and…
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JA1D CREW – WELCOME TO JARABACOA

Hey, hey everyone, what’s good? the party is about to start. But first, let’s introduce ourselves real quick. We are John and Pamela and…
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Update on JA2C Flight to the DR

**JA2C families should have already seen a copy of this statement in their emails.** Hello Families of the JA2C Delegation,   We wanted to…
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Lights Out, But We Are Eternally Lit

Alex Noble once said, “Success is not a place at which one arrives, but where the spirit with which one continues the journey.” To…