Entries Tagged ‘Caripe’:

Week 3 in Venezuela: Living it up on Isla Margerita!

Hola from a gap year in sunny Venezuela, The team are happy and healthy, now into their 3rd week on the beach at Playa Colorado in Venezuela. Yesterday the final Leaper Sarah showed up and after recovering from her flight the team will be quitting the coast and heading for the hills to spend time [...]

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Venezuela Team update.

Just wanted to let you know the gorup made it safe and sound to Caripe. Will update you periodically as to how they are and what they are up to. This last week the group did sports with the kids of Playa Colorada and helped to paint the local school, which is a project that will continue [...]

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Venezuela Team Update 5 : Bernardo

Hey! Time in Venezuela is flying by! On Wednesday28th we finished painting the school’s sport court. We decorated the walls with the slogan ‘Viva la vida de desportivemente’ – live the life of sport. Eve was the artist and her Mural was inspired by graffiti she saw in Buenos Aires. The next day we had [...]

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Venezuela Team Update (4): Jan ’10

Hello from sunny Venezuela! It’s Brendan here, writing from Caripe where I’m here with the group, I arrived here a couple of  days ago. The weather up here is fantastic at the moment and the team are all looking very brown! The first week in Caripe was a bit of a slow one on the [...]

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Alice’s Adventures in Venezuela: Caripe; Grinding with coffee gangsters and other tales! (Part 3)

Wednesday: Well it’s been Bye Bye Venezuelan beaches and Hola hilltops & coffee haciendas the past two days as we’ve left the comfy confines of Playa Colorada behind for the lush green scenery of Caripe. This is where Leap teams will spend weeks 6,7, and 8 of their volunteer placements and it couldn’t be more [...]

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