Recent posts from: Jinotega – 06/05/2013


Free Day


Hey everyone, I’m Jonathan Sturholm from Mt. Eden High School and I was the Leader of the Day for our first Free Day. This was our first chance to have a say in what activities we chose to participate in during the day. We split up into two groups and set out to...

Free Day!!


Hello, my name is Jenny Urias and I was El Lider Del Dia on a free day! Everyone was so excited because it was the first time that the students could go out in groups without a GG Leader. The majority of the students choose not to sleep in because they were anxious to...

Community Action Project Day 1


Greetings from Jinotega, Nicaragua, I, Nancy Perez was the leader of day 15. Day 15 consisted of starting to actually work on our community action project. It started off pretty tough because our plans changed more then twice in a course of hours. Despite frustration,...

Community Action Project Day 2


Hello! Today was our second day to work on our project and I am proud to let you know that we accomplished more than half of our Community Action Project! Our Community Action Project consists of two parts: one group is making a film on self-defense for young girls...

Living On a Dollar a Day


Hi! Our names are Gloria and Hadya, and we were the leaders of the day today. Today we experienced what it’s like to live on a dollar a day in Nicaragua. We started the morning at 6 am with bucket showers because the water was cut off from us to enhance our...

Day 14 Work Like A Local


La Bastilla: The Last Reality Challenge Today our magnificent band of merry men and women traveled to an Agricultural school called La Bastilla in the mountains of Jinotega. We all woke up around 4:00 o’clock in the morning, except for our leaders of the day,...

Day 13 – Vida Joven (Fun Day)


This morning the group woke up around 7:30am to get ready for the second and last fun day. Although breakfast was a few minutes behind, everyone stayed on schedule. The awesome itinerary had a field trip for us to go to a recreational area called Vida Joven, but...