Anthony (who writes in a monotone :P) — To begin, leaders of the day woke up at around 6:30 to get ready and prepare to wake up the rest of the group at 7:00. Some lag occurred when people forgot to bring their money, so we ended up leaving at around 7:45. A two and a half hour bus ride led us to the beautiful Villa Miriam, a free waterfall pool. There were both man-made and natural pools all around the mountains. Seeing the waterfall and the lush forest around us was a breathtaking site. The explorers who climbed up to the mountain were able to see the largest waterfall and dark cave behind it. After playing for an hour or two, the group (switching to Claudia, who has emotions) – took a short trip to the La Tienda de Larimar, a Larimar mine and gift shop. There we got to listen to the two owners, a husband/wife combo, explain how Larimar was discovered and the process of turning a raw stone into a polished, beautiful jewel. After, we started our activity: making custom Larimar jewelry! As endless the possibilities were for creating the jewelry, the sky was the limit for the price that it came with. Yash was almost charged 2000 pesos for a ring! Good thing he got it lowered by quite a lot, courtesy of his Indian heritage. Others, however, were not so lucky, myself included and also around 98% of the students (pretty much all except Yash). After splurging on our Larimar jewelry, we quickly headed back to the hotel to get ready for our CAP (Community Action Project) panel meeting. Although we had little time to prepare for the presentation because we were short on time, our delegation put our game faces on and gave an amazing presentation on our CAP proposal. I’ll just give a quick summary of it because I’m sure others will talk about it. Our idea is to help renovate Guanito’s (our Living Like a Local community) park to help promote the safety of the children and make the children happy. Happy children equals happy parents. After that, Onaney rewarded us with an abundant amount of homemade pizza! Which was quite delicious and reminded me of the first meal we had at Onaney when we arrived in the DR, which was also pizza. To close out the day, our night free time consisted of a mini-photo shoot with Victor’s camera, Eric running and scaring the living daylights out of me, and Eric, Victor, and I doing knuckle push ups on the tile ground (Yash tried but couldn’t get to the push up position, maybe sometime in the future). Thus, the very eventful and fun day (*ahem* Anthony) lasted like that till the very end. Today is definitely a highlight of this trip.
2023 Trips
- JA1A-BAY: Jarabacoa 6-2-2023
- RB1A-BAY: Riobamba 6-5-2023
- T1A-BAY: Turrialba 6-6-2023
- JA2A-BAY: Jarabacoa 6-7-2023
- C1A-CHI: Constanza 6-9-2023
- RB2A-CHI: Riobamba 6-12-2023
- T2A-BAY: Turrialba 6-12-2023
- RB3A-BAY: Riobamba 6-15-2023
- O1A-CHI: Orosi 6-16-2023
- JA1B-BAY: Jarabacoa 6-20-2023
- RB1B-LA: Riobamba 6-23-2023
- T1B-BAY: Turrialba 6-26-2023
- JA2B-CHI: Jarabacoa 6-26-2023
- C1B-WM: Constanza 6-28-2023
- RB2B-BAY: Riobamba 6-30-2023
- O1B2-NYC: Orosi 6-30-2023
- RB3B-NYC: Riobamba 7-6-2023
- T2B2-BAY: Turrialba 7-7-2023
- JA1C-BAY: Jarabacoa 7-10-2023
- RB1C-CHI: Riobamba 7-12-2023
- T1C-LA: Turrialba 7-14-2023
- JA2C-BAY: Jarabacoa 7-14-2023
- C1C-BAY: Constanza 7-17-2023
- RB2C-BAY: Riobamba 7-19-2023
- T2C-CHI: Turrialba 7-20-2023
- RB3C-NYC: Riobamba 7-25-2023
- T1D2-WM: Turrialba 7-26-2023
- JA1D-LA: Jarabacoa 7-28-2023
- RB1D-BAY: Riobamba 7-31-2023
- T2D2-BAY: Turrialba 8-1-2023
- JA2D-NYC: Jarabacoa 8-2-2023
- C1D-CHI: Constanza 8-4-2023
- RB2D-WM: Riobamba 8-7-2023
- T1E1-NYC: Turrialba 8-10-2023
- JA1E-NYC: Jarabacoa 8-10-2023
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Hey Alex Kwan, I hope you’re not sick of me commenting.
I’m glad to hear that today was a fun day for you guys. I hope you’ve been making lots of friends. I kinda wish you would get a tapeworm or something though, so you could come back because I miss you a lot. Keep doing awesome things!! – roon
PS: Today me and my mom sorted out our shared Apple ID dilemma, so hopefully now you won’t accidentally FaceTime my mom anymore!!
Hi my beautiful Nancy!!!
It sounds like your day was great today, according to the blog. I kept my phone with me all day and kept looking to make sure I don’t miss your call, then left it in the locker, thats when I missed your call. you don’t know how disappointed I was at myself for leaving the phone… :(. I miss you soooo much!!! But I know, your well taken care of by your furious leaders! (if not, let me know when your back home) JK..
Im so proud that you were one of the few chosen who is able to have this rare in a life time experience. It was difficult for me to let you go, but this is one of many experiences not worth passing. I know its the right thing.. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
I want you to grow from everything you encounter. Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all you choose to be or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do? This is a rare experience that I know I had to let you go and explore. Id only be cheating you, from a chance to let you grow, and help others that are less fortunate than us. I demand for you “Nancy” to explore and challenge yourself, this is your time, your memories, your discoveries, this is you! 🙂 “The smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water-it will make ripples throughout the entire pond.” Your just gotta take it all in, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment. I Love You Nancy! 🙂
P.S. and this time I will try to always have my phone with me & around when charging, promise. I don’t want to miss another call from you! Love mom. 🙂
Nancy!
The girls and I miss you a lot!
Mi hermosa Monique que gusto nos da leerte y saber q la estás pasando bien… nosotros pasamos contando los dĂas para tu regreso te extrañamos mucho… ayer Angelique se corto el pelo tratando de cortar su liga q le apretaba mucho y le quedĂł el pelo como alfalfa el de la pelĂcula… hay moriamos de risa con Jr y ella lloraba como una Magdalena… cuando regreses te enseñaremos el vĂdeo.
CuĂdate mucho hermosa y ya sabes que te amamos infinitamente!!!!
Papi., mamy, jr y Angie.
Pd: lo mande doble por q no se si lo leerán en el dĂa q Te toco escribir
Eric you said you were going to call around 4.
I miss you call me.
mom?
Dear Yash
Always good to hear that all of you having so much fun and great learning experiences about so many different things, culture, work together, giving back and helping to communities. This is only become possible since you are participant of such great program, and sure you all are great, Have fun 🙂
Love Mom, Dad, bro