Our day started with an early wake up call at 6:45am. Licelot cooked us a wonderful breakfast of ham and cheese slices. The amazing Javier and Angie then drove us to Batey Palavé where we would start our massive Community Action Project. When we arrived we saw that community members had already set to work. We then split up into three groups: Mural Painting, Clean-Up Crew, and Playground Construction. Plenty of children and locals came over to assist us, which was a great help!
At noon, we paused our work for a lunch break at the Imagine Center. The chefs Bartolina and Ramona, served us rice with some lentils, beef, gnocchi, arapitas, and salad. Right after thanking our chefs, we continued working on our CAP at the Batey for another hour. More children came into the park and began playing with the new and improved additions to the park: such as see-saws, swings and a slide!
By 3:45pm, we were back at the Fundacion. We broke for mandatory showers and then went on preparing for our final English tutoring sessions. Since we were parting with our students, many classes decided to throw pizza parties in celebration. Unfortunately, many did not come because it started raining. But, multiple classes joined as one and partied together! It was a bittersweet end to tutoring our students.
We hope will make progress tomorrow. We know that Emma and Jeffrey will lead us to success with our CAP!
Here are some great photos of the day:
Wow! Sounds like you all had a super-productive day today! Can’t wait to see the pics of the CAP tomorrow! I truly hope you’re all proud of and feeling really good about yourselves. You’ve done many selfless things for people that needed and welcomed help from others and, at the same time, I’m supposing, learned much about yourselves, what/who you are and what you’re capable of. What a win-win you’ve had! Looking forward to reading of how my Emma Kay and Jeffrey do as LDD tomorrow. I know you’ll do wonderfully! xo
Very nice! It looks like you did a great job!!!
As I have read each and every blog that the glimpsers have posted, I am so proud and in awe of the accomplishments that they have made. I know that with each day that they have shared, they have learned more about themselves as individuals but also made new friendships that may last a life time. I can’t wait to hear about the experience from Calen, Malique and Johnathan in person??? ? 2 more days and Monday I will get to see you all…..yea???
Yaya, I’m so proud of the work you are doing and the work of all the glimpsers! Can’t wait to see the finished product. Sending big love to you and to Ms. Thole!