The Guatemala 6 student group has officially passed through customs in Miami and is now back on US soil! Students are now making their way to their ongoing domestic travel. Safe travels back home everyone!...Read More
Our group is safely on the plane and ready for takeoff. See you soon Miami!...Read More
Wow. Six weeks have gone by. It’s nearly over and I’m not sure where to begin. We have settled in to our final location in Guatemala City, our last stop on this journey before we have to say our goodbyes. We are surrounded by pine trees, city sounds, and most importantly by each other. After 2 weeks of individual homestays in San Juan la Laguna, it is comforting to be back together as one single Dragons clan. This last chapter is called transference. It is a time marked by reflection: first looking back at our experiences together in Guatemala and… Read More
Dear Families & Friends, It is hard to believe that almost six weeks have passed since your student embarked on this incredible adventure! It won’t be long until students will be boarding their planes back home. We are sure you are anxiously......Read More
I have spent the past eight days here in San Juan la Laguna becoming completely comfortable in my homestay. I now have my regular seat at the dinner table, my host sister and I have scheduled times to play Uno before and after every meal, and......Read More
I’ve made it four weeks and two days successfully avoiding writing a yak, but I cannot be blamed. Just think, yaks are how most people back home are keeping up with this trip. This is a form of looking back on a trip after it has finished. And......Read More
As I carefully lumbered through the rough terrain, down the steep riverbank exposed by the dangerously low water level, exhaustion from carrying my backpack and luggage made each necessary step towards our small lancha boat harder. But for the......Read More
Hello friends and familly, We have spent our last few days at Rabinal, Baja Verapaz. There we worked with the association Qachuu Aloom, in which the main focus is to recover ancestral ways of producing food and of course, for that matter, you must......Read More
I write this yak from the curbside of a busy street in Rabinal – “The Entertainer” plays from an ice cream stand on the corner, rogue tuk tuks run rampant through the intersection, the air is hot and dry, and the mountains peek out from......Read More
On our last morning in Ak’Tenamit, we piled into the lancha (a small boat) with our generous and talented host, Doña Miriam, and said goodbye to the towering cliffs, vibrant forests, and shimmering waters surrounding Cafe Tantin. The next phase......Read More
(Please find a google translated version below) Centroamerica (CA) es una franja delgada de tierra en medio de dos oceanos, hace miles de años, cuando este pedacito de tierra emergio de las profundidades y se convirtio en el puente natural que une......Read More
Hello there, Don´t know where to start, it has been about three days since when we departed from Ak´Tenamit to our midcourse and now we are at Qachuu Aloom at the department of Bajo Verapaz. I´ll do my best to explain my time in Ak´Tenamit. In......Read More
¡Hola todos! Here in Rio Dulce we have got to meet some amazing people that have shared their stories and culture with us. Yesterday (July 14) we got chance to meet Rogelio in Livingston who is part of the Garifuna culture. The Garifunas are a......Read More
With each transition that we make from one place to another, our instructors brief us on where we are going, what we will be doing there, and why we support the organizations that we are going to be involved with. As someone who always wants to know......Read More
Don Miguel angel “Gato”, the former cooperative president of Nuevo Horizonte, has given us a detailed introduction explaining the various projects and the daily life here. But what does it mean to live in a such self-sufficient “utopic”......Read More
