Vamos a Empezar
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 “Vamos a Empezar” Category Archives:
Central America- MAYA
Central America- MAYA
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 “Vamos a Empezar” It’s Been Lit!
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 “It’s Been Lit!” Scuba School and Night Diving in Roatan
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 “Scuba School and Night Diving in Roatan” Pura Patrolling
By Siobhan Herr
We arrived at Playa Nombre de Jesus excited and antsy after our long travel day. With the ocean in mind, we quickly put on our bathing suits… Read More “Pura Patrolling”
Casa de Tortugas
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 “Casa de Tortugas” Bona Fide-Bound!
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 “Bona Fide-Bound!” Stop. Drop. Travel.
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 “Stop. Drop. Travel.” “I never thought digging holes could be this fun!”
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 ““I never thought digging holes could be this fun!”” Matagalpa Memories
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 “Matagalpa Memories” Escuela de Español Colibrí
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 “Escuela de Español Colibrí” New Country, More Spanish
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 “New Country, More Spanish” Leaving Guatemala with a Bang
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 “Leaving Guatemala with a Bang” “That was the best silent om I’ve ever heard!”
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 ““That was the best silent om I’ve ever heard!”” Homestays, Salsa Lessons & Lagoon Hiking in Xela
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 “Homestays, Salsa Lessons & Lagoon Hiking in Xela” Kicking off our Journeys in Central America!
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 “Kicking off our Journeys in Central America!” Scavenger hunt blog: Smells
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 “Scavenger hunt blog: Smells” Scavenger hunt blog: Sounds
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 “Scavenger hunt blog: Sounds” Scavenger hunt blog: Sight
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 “Scavenger hunt blog: Sight” Scavenger hunt blog: Taste
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 “Scavenger hunt blog: Taste” Safe arrival
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 “Safe arrival” 
