Day 7

Before leaving Chichoy Alto for the last time this trip, I quickly ran upstairs to the second floor to soak in the view for the last time. Not only to soak in the amazing backdrop of farmland and volcanoes that we have been working in front of all week, but also to realize all that […]

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Day 6

If you wanted to see a group of grown men shed some tears today you should have been in the first floor classroom of Chichoy Alto’s lower school today. It was a very emotional day. After working hard in the morning at the school and sweating on the rooftop while working on the rebar and […]

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Day 5

We have just added a lot more to the our day 4 adventures. We are now on our way to Atitlan to zipline and are changing hotels today. Hopefully the WiFi is better so we can get some pictures up of the last couple of days! More to come hopefully tonight after we have another […]

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Day 4

After recovering from a midnight sickness, I was glad to have gotten some rest and to get the day starting. I woke up around 2 in the morning feeling terribly sick in a cold sweat and woke up Connor to tell him I thought I was going to die. After an hour with a cold […]

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Day 3

After such an awesome first full day, we were definitely ready to add to our experience here in Guatemala. To start off the day, we made a stop at the local marketplace in Pátzun, which was centered around a 16th century Catholic Church. It was really an amazing site, as the original wooden columns and […]

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Day 2

What an amazing day. We woke up at 7 and enjoyed a delicious breakfast at the hotel and drank some coffee to get the day started. We spent a good deal of time tampering with the wifi and eventually using Hugo’s phone as a hotspot to allow us to post the blog from the first day. […]

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Day 1

We had an amazing start to our trip. We all left home very early to meet up at the airport by 4 am. Our 6 am flight got us to Miami in the early morning, and let many of us catch up on some sleep. After a two-hour layover in Miami, we arrived in Guatemala […]

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Packing the balls

105 soccer balls deflated and ready to be packed into duffel bags! A huge thanks to Coach Nizzi at Hamilton for donating our practice balls from this past year, to Greg Ramos at Lehigh Valley United for donating 6 ball bags full of nearly brand new balls, Coach Hartman at Moravian Academy for donating a bag full of brand new balls, and all friends and family who donated as well. We cannot wait to share all of these with the school, and many local teams.

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