Day 10 – Final Reflection
Student Trip Blog
Dear friends and families,
We are beyond grateful and excited to share our journeys with you all! Today was the start of our CAP journey as we started to plan our project and assign our groups. We started our day by waking up at 6:30am and having breakfast at 7:30am. For breakfast we had sausages with a Panamanian style of fried bread with mango juice. After our breakfast we prepared for our day and took a bus at approximately 8am to Playa Veano. The bus ride was very long and many fell asleep on the bus, but as we got closer to the beach we came across many views and the bus driver gave us the privilege to stop at the top of a mountain.
Once arriving at the beach, we were greeted by Alexandra and Becky (turtle conversationalists) and their adorable dogs. While it was hot we moved over into a part of the beach with some shade as the children played around and rode a horse. Then they gave us a backstory on the organization and their motivations for why they help rescue turtles. They then gave us a small tour and demonstrated how to approach a turtle on the beach, as they are laying eggs. As we were wrapping it up we had a small amount of extra time and students went to either play volleyball or explore the rest of the beach!
We then headed back to the hotel and arrived at 1pm, to eat our lunch and head to our daily seminar. For lunch we had chicken, rice, beans and coleslaw with fruit punch. After that we had a small icebreaker, in which the leaders had us do speed friendship and get to know each other. This encouraged us to start small conversations and it went well! We got to learn more about each other and found things in common. After that we began to plan our turtle project and create a small poster to present on our first day. At the end of the meeting, students decided to take a walk to the city and get ice cream along with Panamanian snacks for VERY cheap. When they came back, we had dinner and passed the torch. We ate rice, chicken, mashed potatoes, coleslaw and beans with passion fruit lemonade juice. We then had ANOTHER meeting where we passed to leadership role to Jendel and Porter. Today was successful in creating new bonds and learning more about the land! Now, we are still having some bonding time but will end our night at 10:30pm after some games and swimming time!
Best,
Mia and Caprina
Comments (10)
Stephanie French
Great job, ladies! So proud of the work you’re doing. Looking forward to hearing about your CAP project. I’m happy that you were able to spend some time getting to know each other better. What an awesome opportunity to get to know people from different places.
Parlad Gurung
Thank you so much for the updates and have a great time.
Fany y Jorge Rodriguez
Well, sounds like a busy, productive, super fun day! How fascinating might be to be able to be so close to the turtles on this special time, can’t wait to read more about what all of you will be working, on upcoming days. Thank you leaders for allowing the phone check-in, I am greatful I was able to talk to Eduardo tonight. God bless you all.
Sarah Covalli
Good morning everyone!!! I am finding myself looking forward to tuning into the student blog each morning to start my day! It’s awesome to be able to hear the day to day while so far away! I’m sure some of you are maybe homesick by now! I know I am counting down the days to get back to Logan (Miss you G!!!!!!) even though it was difficult ultimately enough to navigate with a co-pilot and in daylight!!!!🤪🤪🤪 I can’t wait to read the progression of your turtle project and what the days to come have in store for you all!
Sending BIIIIIIG LOVE from Easthampton!!
Sarah
Tony Covalli
Save those turtles!!! Shout out to Gianna!! ❤️♥️ we love and miss you! Sounds like you guys are having a blast! Hope you’re have a great time, making lots of new friends and memories!
anthony torchia
yessir gianna!! save those turtles miss you sm!!!!!!!!!! urban ahh misses you tooo!!!!!
sending sm love from easthamton!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ you go girl!!! bring me back a sink ape!!!!!!!!!!!❤️❤️ p.s you left your rash cream at my house hope your not itching 😋❤️.
Jillian Burkett
Wow guys it looks like you’re filling your time in an amazing way love hearing about all the delicious food you’re eating and adventures to be had looking forward to seeing today’s leaders of the day
anthony torchia
yessir gianna!!!!!! hope your having fun miss you soooooo much!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️ urban ahh misses you too. sending sm love from easthampton!!!❤️❤️ bring me back a sink ape!! p.s you left your itch cream at my house hope your not itchy😬❤️
FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ
Feliz sábado
Esperoallas disfrutado el día de hoy la excursión a la plya y experiencia con las tortugas. Orando por ustedes espero tengas Feliz noche TQM tus abuel@s
Jessica Ramos
😩so jealous, Im glad you guys are having the best time ever 🙌🏻 when i was 17 I didn’t have the access to something like this Im so happy my daughter got to experience this 🥹