La Brunca: Life in La Brunca!
For the last two days, we’ve been doing service work as a group around Biolley. The community is flourishing on its own, but…
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La Brunca: Días en mi Comunidad
We started our trip off on an exciting note after all nineteen of us nervous teenagers made our way from baggage claim to…
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La Sierra: Disfrutando Ecuador
The volunteers danced into a new week by learning the basics of salsa, bachata, zapateado, and cumbia. Many of the volunteers felt connected…
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Coclé: Lo Inesperado
According to Alana, my host sister “unexpected is not a word, at least not here in Panamá”. But as my three weeks…
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El Pacífico: Mata Oscura
By Tamaryn, Samuel, Mireya, and Lily For the past few days we’ve been spending our time in Mata Oscura working with Fundación Agua…
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El Pacífico: Exploring El Valle
By: Mireya, Tamaryn, and Samuel We started our community service at a recycling center in Valle de Antón. There were many different stations.…
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El Pacífico: Our Days in Valle de Antón
Authors: Dane, August, RJ, Mikaela Formation of Valle de Antón Valle de Antón formed when two tectonic plates converged and created a…
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Santa Elena: Days With Our Families
Hello, Our names are Xander and Callum and for the last three weeks we have been staying with host families in a small community…
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Pezeta: La Llegada
Over the course of these first five days, we have been immersed in the culture of Costa Rica by using Spanish in our…
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Olas y Cerros: Días de Voluntariado
Hola from week 2 of Olas y Cerros! We spent our last day in the mountains hiking an active volcano before heading…
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Coclé: Life in Community
The first week here in Aguas Blancas was a week of adjustment but a week full of activities – the first few…
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Los Santos: Entre Cafetales
We arrived at our host community Friday afternoon (6/23) and although we stepped into a new world from the one we left, we…
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