Follow the Journey

By Overseas Educators Brian & Ellen Bienvenidos a la familia de Maya! We are super excited to embark upon our semester in Central America with you all! It is hard… Read More

By Overseas Educators Julian and Hannah 24 MINIBUSES 10 PICKUPS 8 BUSES PÚBLICOS 6 AVIONES 4 LANCHAS That’s right y’all. We moved around a lot this semester. As a group,… Read More

By Talia After some wild travel days, we finally made it to Roatan, Honduras for a week full of diving in the beautiful Caribbean Sea. We spent the week diving… Read More

On Friday, we were given the opportunity to harvest, process, cook and eat farm fresh fruits — the most memorable of which was the jackfruit. After our field team harvested… Read More

By Chloe Steffes Hola todos! In the final weeks of our Nicaraguan journey, the Carpe group has really been both absorbing and adapting to nature all around us. We have… Read More

By Kaitlin Emmett Recharged from early bedtimes and delicious food cooked by our homestay mothers, we finished the week out strong installing a composting septic tank at Chloe’s homestay. We… Read More

By Annie Our week and a half at Colibri Spanish School came to a close with some final juegos and all of us attempting to absorb our last formal Spanish… Read More

Classrooms for the week! Cooking class! Elliot stirring homemade honey. Cooking class. Annie getting ready to fry up our pastries. The finished product. Grace roasts fresh coffee beans. Talia enjoying … Read More

By Maddie Cloran Hola! Greetings once again from Escuela de Español Colibrí! It’s been a Spanish-practicing, organic, activity-filled week at school and we have been having so much fun continuing… Read More

By Grace Cain-Kellman Hola from a new country!!!! Picking up from the last post midway through our stay in El Paredón, our group squeezed in as much as we could… Read More

By Juliette Clem Hola friends + family of Maya! Greetings from El Paredon, Guatemala. This past week has been packed full of so many fun and interesting activities that I… Read More

By Angelo Accus Our journey to Lake Atítlan began with Talia being a team player and using her Level: 100 finesse skills to talk down our boat driver from 500… Read More

By Paige Harris Buenos dias from Xela! We’ve had a very busy week learning Spanish and continuing to immerse ourselves in Guatemalan culture. Prior to our departure from La Escuela… Read More

By Hanna McKee ¡Hola Tod@s! This week kicked off the official start of our three-month journey in Central America! After spending our first few nights in a beautiful hostel in… Read More

Walking through Xela, there are so many different and unique smells. From delicious street food to the dry herbs in the market. But not all of the smells here are… Read More

The sounds in Xela have been both familiar and foreign to us thus far! We have heard things like cars, food cooking at a street food stand, and people conversing… Read More

We have seen so many amazing sights this week! When we were first flying in, those lucky enough to get window seats were treated to a bird’s eye view of… Read More

On the first night we ate some delicious Thai salads with a wonderful peanut butter dressing. However, our favorite meal was today when we ate scrumptious tacos filled with chicken… Read More

Dear families and friends of the Central America MAYA group, I just heard from Hannah and Julian that the group has landed in Guatemala City. They had an easy flight,… Read More