A day in the life on a GIA trip…

Read first-hand accounts from our team and volunteers about life on a project. These ‘day in the life’ blogs give a detailed insight into what it’s like to travel abroad and help a local community.

Teaching in Colombia

The alarm rings. I roll over and squint at the time. It's 6 AM. Before I can even think about snoozing, I hear the national anthem playing on the radio outside. Ah, yes, another day in Colombia. To be honest, I'm cutting it fine since school starts in 45 minutes, but back in the UK, I’d have at least an hour and a half more sleep, and I would have woken up to rain gently tapping on the window. Here? It's the Colombian anthem at full volume, reminding me that everyone else is already up and has probably had two cups of coffee by now….

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