Work Like A Local Day!

This morning, as part of our working like a local day, we went to Bejuco Aplastado to work alongside members from the community. These men, and one woman, form a brigada or brigade. We worked with La Brigada Verde (Green Brigade) and other community members to help...

A Day of Firsts

Violet, Mary, and Courteney woke up at 6:15 to be ready to wake everyone up at 6:45 for our Aid & Development day. Mary and Courteney used the megaphone to wake everyone up, saying “wakey wakey, eggs and panky,” “cock-a-doodle-doo, the cow goes moo”....

Day 4: Global Business: To Mine or Not to Mine?

We started the day off with delicious grilled ham and cheese sandwiches that were graciously provided to us by our in-house chef, Liselot. Briefly after our breakfast, we shuffled into our bus, Pitufa. Our journey took us to the CORMIDOM mine in the city of Maimon...

Culture FUN Day!

Today we were able to take a closer glimpse between the vibrant threads that make the fabric of the Dominican Republic. Fueled by curiosity…and Licelot’s delicious oatmeal, we started our adventure with a trip to Santos de Palos. Yesterday we viewed this...

Let’s talk about History!

History day was the first official day in the Dominican Republic, and after the rough day yesterday we were excited to finally start our journey together, in order to do that we had game to learn everyone’s names and also created a commitment to be open minded,...