Recent posts from: Esteli1 – 07/20/2014


Final Day Melancholy


We made it. One more day until our three-week long adventure comes to an end! As you can probably imagine, I’m definitely feeling the pressure as the Glimpser to write the FINAL blog of E1C 2014. Where do I even begin… I guess you could say the feeling of going home...

Freedom in Esteli


Hola friends and family members of E1C. As you all know, today was free day and it was much needed after two long and exhausting days of hard work on our CAP (Community Action Project). Wake-up call was at 6:30 AM which is actually later than normal. We walked over to...

FINAL CAP DAY!


  Hello beautiful people of the world! It’s Lisa and Alexia here to tell you about our hectic yet rewarding final CAP day! Through the CAP project, there were many lessons learned and memories created. One thing that we think the whole group got a lot of practice...

Community Action Project: Day 1


Today was the first day of our Community Action Project (CAP)! We started off the day with a breakfast of eggs with ham and gallo pinto, as usual (everyone’s favorite). Then we walked back to the hostel and planned for the big day, which included walking down the...

Sunday in the Canyon


Hey everyone, it’s Imani here to tell you all about our majestic second Sunday FUNday! All the real fun today began with waking everyone up at 5:25 a.m. this sunny morning and a 5-star breakfast, which were ham and cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise and ketchup....

Presenting and Preparing the CAP


After eating breakfast we kicked off our day by beginning to organize our Community Action Project, CAP, in more detail. We started by gathering with one of the three groups we chose to take a part of while working on our CAP: horticulture, huerto (orchard), and...

Politics Day


Today we finally got our chance to visit the Museum of Heroes. We were supposed to visit this museum on our first full day here in Estelí but we did not get the chance to because it didn’t fit into our time schedule. To start off our day we went to breakfast as usual,...