Immigration Day

Today the Glimpsers went to Batey Palave, a community made up of Haitians, Dominicans and Haitians who were born in the Dominican Republic for Immigration Day. The Glimpsers had the opportunity to learn about the Haitian immigrants’ history. They learned that in...

Deconstructing Poverty Day

Today was deconstructing poverty day and we got to directly witness the steps impoverished people take in order to work against their unfortunate situations. First we went to the city dump in La Vega and met a group of people called buzos. Buzos is a Spanish word for...

Looking at the Good & the Bad

We are Armin and James, the leaders of the day for today. For Global Business we woke and had cereal and milk for breakfast before heading to Cormidon, a mining company in the mountains of Bonao. We met with Jonathan, an environmental scientist and he told us about...

Our First Exploration in Bonao!

  Hi, we are Jiya and Ruby and we were the leaders of today, the 11th of June. Today started around 8:30a for most of us! Breakfast started at 9:00, which is three hours later than breakfast usually starts. We had eggs and pancakes and we were able to use the...

Adventure Day!!! =D

Today we went to 27 Charcos, Damajagua, Puerto Plata, a tourist attraction a couple hours from our accommodations. Many of us were extremely thrilled to go hiking and swimming since natural beauty is a highlight in this country. At the location we jumped off of...