Final Reflection

Today I was Leader of the Day for our Final Reflection. We began the day with our reflection seminar, and reminisced and appreciated everything we all brought to this trip. Individuality and the impacts we all had on each other were celebrated. We all walked away from...

Day 14: Cap Delivery 3

Today we worked together as a team to finish the community action project in Loma De Yaque. We started and finished the mural of the Dominican flag and had people of the community put there thumb prints on the wall. We also smoothed out the edge of the sidewalk using...

Successful Sidewalk!

Saludo (hi), For those of you who don’t yet know what the responsibilities of leader of the day are, our first task is waking eighteen other exhausted teenagers up. As two people who crave sleep, this seemed daunting. Fortunately the rooster outside our accommodations...

Free Day #2

Hi everybody, It’s Zack here from the Dominican Republic. Today our wake up call was at 8:30 and we needed that because yesterday was a long day. Then we had breakfast, for breakfast, we had cornflakes and fruit (: After breakfast, we had time to get our laundry...

Immigration Day

Hola! Jasmine Terounzo and Sharwine here. We got the honor of being the Líderes Del Día for this very busy day. We woke up at 5:00 am today, which is the earliest wake-up call we’ve had throughout the entire trip. At breakfast, we had pancakes with fruit and started...