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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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Aid and Development (No. 5)

Hola Familias y Amigas, It´s Chloé reporting live from Costa Rica. I started the day by waking up at 6:30 to read outside while…
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Free Day (No. 7)

Hola! It’s Stephanie and Diana writing here! For today’s agenda we woke up at 8:30 and headed to breakfast at Roma Santa to have…
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Immigration (Country Theme) – Day 6

Welcome to Day 6 of the Global Glimpse Jarabacoa, DR trip! Today we had an early start, waking up at 6 AM. It’s an…
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Community Day!! 🙂 (No. 8)

Hi everyone! Today was community day! We spent the day with Costa Rican families learning about their lifestyle and their costumbres (customs). To start…
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Learning Indigenous Worldviews

¡Hola todos! Hello everyone! Our names are Flory and Katherine, and we got to be LDDs (Leaders of the Day) today! It was nerve-wracking…

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Final Day: Day 14!

We missed Isaiah tonight. He and I were going to be great leaders today, but he had to leave the trip early, and it…
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CAP Day 2- Monday 8/14

Today we continued our CAP day project, helping the local community of Canada de Las Palmas have a place to commute. Our opinions on…
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Day 5: Aid and Development (No. 2)

Hello! Today we woke up at 7 am and had breakfast. We all had a busy day yesterday, so today was a catch-up day…
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Return Flight Information: JA2D-NYC

Hello family and friends of the JA2D-NYC Global Glimpse delegation, We know you’re excited to see your Glimpsers, so we thought we would share the…
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Global Business Day

¡Pura Vida from Costa Rica!! Heyy… Today we learned about 2 major local businesses in Costa Rica. We kicked off our day by doing…