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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.

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CAp day 1: Daura, logan, Annie

Hi, this is your day’s leaders, Logan, Annabelle, and Daura! Today was our first big Community Action Project Day (following very eventful and extremely…
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Day 7 FUN DAY AT THE PLAYa

This is Israel and Juan; we are the leaders of the day for FUN DAY! Today was the latest wake up call in a…
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Constanza Community Day

Good morning from your Day 4 leaders Adrianna, Joe, and Emma!We started the day off with a breakfast of avena (oatmeal) with bananas and raisins. Then,…
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Persevering in panama – cap prep day

Heyyy Y’all it’s Jalyn and Ariel, We started off our leadership journey by sharing our talents. Jalyn did ballet for as long it took…
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Introduction: Sabrina-GGL

Hi everyone! My name is Sabrina, and I’m so excited to be one of your leaders for this incredible journey to Costa Rica! I’ve…

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Arianna’s blog post

Hi, I’m Arianna Guzman from the north side of Chicago, and I’ll be traveling to Constanza in two weeks. I am someone who loves…
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Get to know me

Hello, my name is Ryan Zajac, and I am an incoming senior at LPS Hayward. I am 16 years old and will be traveling…
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Introductions: Rowan B (Glimpser)

Hi everyone! My name is Rowan Barcelona and I currently attend Mountain View High School. I am so excited for the unique opportunity that…
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Reny copado-glimpser

HELLLO everybody As you can tell by the title my name is Renata but everybody calls me Reny, I was born in Mexico and…
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Second day in Costa Rica: meeting with families

Our second day in Turrialba started similar to yesterday, waking up and eating breakfast together. We ate a hearty breakfast of a ham and…