Erick is a native Costa Rican who enjoys the outdoors and traveling around the world. He graduated from Berea College in Kentucky where he studied biology and Business Administration. 
Tai has a passion for teaching and travel. She currently lives in the Rocky Mountain town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She arrived there from the colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua where she helped open the first Waldorf School in the country. 
Jessy has worked for GW since 2004 taking groups to Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Nicaragua. She is addicted to world travel, dance, rock climbing and cooking. She can't wait to return to Nicaragua this summer- her favorite Central American country! Welcome Global Works travelers, parents and friends. We are excited to share with you trip updates from around the world. As our main office receives updates from the trips we will update the page as we receive news from the field.
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Update #1:
Hello friends and family!!!
We just arrived in our first service work community, Los Muñoz. It is very rural but that means it is a very tranquil place! We have met the local community members who will be working with us this week while we paint the interior and exterior of the Community Center, build a concrete patio for the 3-classroom school, and teach English classes to all the sweet children we have met. We are ready to work and be of help to the kind people in the community who have welcomed us so well!
Update #2:
We arrived in Reserva Quelantero on Monday and found ourselves in a tranquillo casa in the middle of an enchanting jungle. To welcome us they made us Chinese food and told us about the geography of Nicaragua and the purpose of the reserva in which we are living. We learned that the reserve helps many birds migrate safely from the United States. One in particular is a hummingbird that is only three grams in size that travels from Alaska all the way to the reserve to mate.
On Tuesday we were welcomed by applause from all of the classrooms in the small school we would be working. The grades are preschool through sixth at the school and they seem very curious about us. We have been given two locations to work on, one is the casa communal where the community will be holding meetings and move the preschool to. The other is to build a stage with a roof in front of the school that the students and community can use for meetings or fiestas. Within these two projects we have done a lot of painting and cement mixing. However everyone seems eager to do the work and we are all working well as a team.
This afternoon we get the opportunity to see our work finished. The casa communal is painted and looks very similar to the church colors that we saw in the main plaza in Granada. We also have finished the stage and the roof. For our goodbye party we will be eating cake and donate some sporting supplies for the children. A game of soccer is definitely in order for our celebration. Tomorrow for our rest we get to enjoy the beach and then off to our next project on Ometepe. We will miss the Reserva and the community we have been working with. They also have expressed sadness in our departure. The community members tell us we are hard workers and good people. It seems we made a good impression.
Update #3:
We enjoyed a great weekend after a celebratory goodbye from the community where we were working. At the despedida we heard poetry, songs, and many, many thank you´s for the work we accomplished. After that we left for a well deserved break on the beach. The water was warm and the sun was hot and we had fun looking at all the creatures of the ocean. We also learned more about the native turtle species that live there.
See you all soon.