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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. Explore some of our Alumni Interns’ favorite blogs from 2024 or search all student trip blogs below.

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Culture & Community day

3 30 to 4 30Hi Guys, this is Josie and Ravneet taking over the blog today. There were a lot of new experiences today.…
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Get to know me!

Hi there! My name is Sydney, but feel free to call me by any nickname you can think of! I’ve gotten quite a few…
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Welcoming Global Glimpse to Costa Rica: A Beautiful JOURNEY

There’s something truly special about first moments—first steps in a new country, first smiles between new friends, and the first deep breath of warm…
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We have arrived!

The glimpsers landed in the DR and came out of the airport at almost 3am in the morning. They were so excited for the…
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Day 2 – WELCOME TO TURRIALBA & ORIENTATION

Today was our first day in Turrialba. We had a wonderful time getting to know each other and establishing a common ground for our…

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CAP day 3

The day started like usual, another CAP day digging to place the water pipe. Woke up at 6am in the morning and got ready…
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Fun day

Today, we started our day with breakfast, consisting of fried dough, pancakes, chicken sausages, pineapple, cheese, and pineapple lemonade to drink. Afterwards, we went…
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Welcome & Panama Canal

Hi Everyone, We are the LLD´s of the day, GGL Jason and GGL Nikki. Today we woke up super early to make our journey…
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L.A. aventura comienza

After a late night getting settled, we had the luxury of a slow morning today—some extra sleep and a bit of free time to…
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CAP DAY & COOKIES 2

Hello everyone, we hope your are enjoying our daily blog.  Today we continued our CAP project and started the day off getting ready to…