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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.

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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…
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Yupaichani to all the indigenous people we met!!!

” We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected not…

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Community Day (No. 18)

Today we primarily focused on the communities in Constanza that are facing poverty. Like most days we woke up at 7:00 a.m and had…
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Nice to meet y’all! (No. 2)

Hey y’all! My name is Brianna Jordan and I am a rising senior at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts. I am 16 years…
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JA1C Return Flight Information

Hello, family and friends of the  JA1C Global Glimpse delegation, We know you’re excited to see your Glimpsers, so we thought we would share…
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Spontaneity Day

“If you want to change the world, be the change.” -Mahatma Gandhi Hi I’m Kyra, a rising senior at Mountain View High School, and…
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Education and deconstruction poverty in Riobamba

Today at breakfast at Roma Santa, Our first meal consisted of Plantains with Beef/Pork Sausages. After the energizing breakfast, we played a game of…