Community day

Que lo que a todos! It’s us, the Lideres Del Dia: Grace, Cesar, and Nilah!

This morning, one of our LDD’s, Nilah, woke up most of the Glimpsers with her amazing singing! Once everyone woke up, we had them choose a random card that determined where they’d be seated for breakfast. Once breakfast was over, we had our mental warm-up to learn some important information before meeting the community in Cañada de las Palmas! After the mental warm-up, we had the Glimpsers choose another card to find who’d they’d sit next to! Everyone was energized and ready to meet the Cañada de las Palmas community! During the bus ride, people had recommended music to play, sang along, and chatted with their bus buddies. But before we arrived, we took quick stop at the supermarket to buy a “few” things for the villa (bought quite a bit, really)!

We finally arrived to Cañada de las Palmas, and spoke with the community director, Ramon! Glimpsers were then split into 5 different groups, each sent to spend most of the day with a certain family in the community! They got to learn about the families backgrounds, extended family, where they worked, festivals and celebrations, and much more! A few of the groups had done chores for their respective families, and others had spent the whole day talking to the family, learning their favorite movies, foods, etc!

Next, we gathered everyone to have lunch in the community center. After we ate, everyone played games with the kids in the community, such as baseball, Leap Frog, hand games, Hot Potato, and basketball. After all these fun activities, we took a picture with the community members, and then returned to the villas!

Once we arrived, we wrote self reflections about the day we spent with the Cañada de las Palmas community! We were then allowed to have free time—which consisted of playing pool, swimming in the pool, reading, playing basketball, and chatting with our peers—before we began the group seminar that covered tomorrow’s CAP day! After the seminar, we LDDS created a very interesting seating arrangement for dinner: the Glimpsers played rock-paper-scissors against us to figure out where they’d be seated. We also had the Glimpsers arm wrestle one another and whoever won got to get their food first! These creative solutions were well received, creating lots of laughter and excitement for the remainder if the day.

Finally, we had our nightly meeting, we reflected over the day, received feedback on our leadership, and passed the torch to the next Lideres Del Dia!

We had an awesome day! Keep following along with our blogs.