By Nicole Smith | March 17, 2011
Today’s highlight for me was a futbol match against a local health clinic with our masons and Harvard students volunteering at a neighboring site. I’m proud to say Team Habitat prevailed with a 6-4 victory. Our field was on military base near the border of El Salvador and Guatemala. As the sun was setting, I…
By Nicole Smith | March 17, 2011
As someone who is not through their first year at Babson, this trip for me has been a large reassurance (not that I needed one at this point) of the college of which I am enrolled in. This trip has shown Babson in many fantastic ways for me. Firstly, the people on the trip are…
By Nicole Smith | March 14, 2011
It’s our second day in El Salvador and we just arrived at our hotel. We stayed at our “R&R” last night, where we were in an amazing outdoor resort in Rancho Estero y Mar. Our first expenditure was to a forest attached to the resort through a bridge; filled with pathways of rocks and trees.…
By Nicole Smith | March 14, 2011
12 hours. That’s how long it takes to get from Boston to San Salvador. Or at least that’s how long it took us to get there. We stopped for some nice Chinese food from Panda express along the way to make the trip shorter. As we changed planes, gathered luggage, and set forth for our…