Jun 21, 2019 | SJ2A San Juan Maguana 6-16-2019 |
Have you ever thought about where our food comes from? I didn’t. That was, until I got the opportunity to work on a tomato farm by the name of Maguana Tropical. This farm is one of the Dominican Republic’s biggest exporters, sending about 80% of all of...
Jun 20, 2019 | SJ2A San Juan Maguana 6-16-2019 |
Today was so fun! We had a lot of free time, and we played a lot of games. It’s really cool getting to know everyone else on the trip, especially because some of them I had never talked to before arriving in the DR. Yesterday, I worked out with one of the...
Jun 19, 2019 | SJ2A San Juan Maguana 6-16-2019 |
I wasn’t quite sure about what teaching. Why share something when you receive so little in return? Why give so much when you are underpaid and underappreciated. I guess I understand that a little better now. Today when I taught English for the first time I...
Jun 18, 2019 | SJ2A San Juan Maguana 6-16-2019 |
Music, religion dance and connection to place. These were the themes that we explored on the third day of our journey in the Dominican Republic. In all we did today, we were all so impressed with the pride and passion of everyone we met when describing the history,...
Jun 17, 2019 | SJ2A San Juan Maguana 6-16-2019 |
History ROCKS! This was also our “unity clap” word to close the day. It was incredible how fun history can be and how connected our pasts are. We kicked off the day with a very Dominican breakfast that our students were new to the main ingredient which was...
