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Today Glimpsers focused on Aid and Development, meaning we learned how different organizations supply resources for Jarabacoa residents in need. But to start off the day, we had an American breakfast, frosted flakes, and cornflakes that reminded us all of home.
Then we traveled into the city and met two speakers! The first organization was focused on providing clean water, and the second was a community advocate who will be helping us over the next week with our Community Action Project.
We finally started to work on our CAP Design! We are focusing on providing clean water for a small community in Jarabacoa that does not have access. We are excited to present how we plan to contribute to the community with our poster presentations tomorrow afternoon!
After all of that excitement, we were blessed with food by our Top Chef Welling, which consisted of spaghetti, bread, fruit, and veggies. ? We were so excited after the nightly meeting because we got to pass the torch to our new LDDs, who will be taking over tomorrow for our community day, where we will spend time with locals and building connections.
Messages home from the LDDs:
To my boujie family, I hope there are still Oreos left at home, I really miss those. I hope you are taking snapchats of everything so I’m caught up. I miss singing shaboaya with Pookie, and telling Bubba to stay out of my nail polish. I miss your morning wake-up calls pushing me in my bed because there’s no Alexa out here. Hope everyone is healthy, and watching our family TV. Make sure you’re giving Pookie ice cream for breakfast. Love and miss you all, don’t forget about me. – Mimi (your favorite child)
Hello to everyone back home, I hope everyone is well and that there is still ice cream and nutella left for me because Satchel has probably eaten all of it. We had a stray puppy wander into our accommodation and me and my friend wanted to bring it home, but we couldn’t even touch it :(. We named him Papito! I miss you all and I will be expecting my room to be clean when I get home like Angelika said she would lol. Love you guys. – Iris
Comments (12)
Margarita Bojorquez
Hola a todos Quiero agradecerles a todos los maestros que los andan cuidando y darles las grasias porque les estan enseñando una esperencia que nunca seles va olvidar gracias al programa que sin el no se hubiera realizado tambien quiero desirles a todo el grupo que espero que los mosquito ya los conoscan y no les piquen mucho a mi hija Lupe que la extraño mucho pero que disfrute ese hermoso lugar en compania de todos
Niki
Hello Glimpsers!
You are learning so much and contributing in such a meaningful way! Keep it up, you lovely bunch ? Thank you Mimi and Iris for the wonderful update.
Sorry for the late comment, Maya! Loved your post yesterday – read it and smiled through all the typos – it HAD to be you of course! I’m guessing you collected enough shells and rocks to make up the remaining 20 lbs of baggage weight!
Also, so happy to see the back of your head and my bag in this post! Mira is down with fever but she is still her cheerful self. Most days she searches for you with a confused look on her face. We have not watched anything fun since you left. And my GR app remains unused and unloved without you around to pester me ?
Love you my baby! Mama misses you.
Sarah Varghese
Hi Maya,
Just wanted to stop by your blog and let you know how proud I am of you. It’s amazing to see you enjoying your trip and being so independent. Your blog posts are fantastic, and I love reading them. I miss you a lot. Lots of love!
Gugi Aunty.
michelle valencia
its so cool to see that you guys are really out here making a difference!! I’m excited to see what you all accomplish. ALSO tell felix i said congrats for making section leader and tenor 1 in jazz ensemble !! (can’t say I’m surprised… HES THE BEST!!) i cant wait for tomorrow’s post :p
Maria Rosales
Hi Lesly! We hope you are very happy. Everyone misses you very much (papi extraña su latitas)
P.S Joonie is changing color, from black to a light tan brown??? and both grandmas miss you and we delight in reading the daily posts of your travels. Also, Beasty is mad at you because she went on a 12 hour ride to L.A and you didn’t.
Take care!
Pamela Robinson
Thank you for the update Mimi Guillory & Iris Ahnger! I am curious to find out about food by Top Chef Welling…. Who, What? Is this someone who you guys love to cook for you? Divinia when will it be your turn? I’m anxious! I love you and miss you. I’m picking you up now ,lol! You never been gone from home this long , sad face.
Love MOMMY
marahya navas
Hi everyone! So excited to hear y’all are focusing on what community action project you want to do. providing clean water to a community where access doesn’t exist yet is a big feat and i am so excited to hear the plan for the project to come to fruition! the place looks absolutely amazing btw, love all the greenery and all the trees<3 y'all are having the bluest skies, nothing but clouds and gray skies here in the east bay
Annice Weinstein
It looks so lush there! (Hopefully the mosquitoes are taking it easy on you.) No picture of Papito? I’m loving the pictures that download in higher quality so we can zoom in and see your faces ?
You missed a very un-Dad-like moment yesterday when he left his wallet in the rental car and didn’t realize until we reached the security checkpoint. It took him over an hour to go back and get it. And today he realized he lost his special red eye therapy stick. We need you back at home so you can keep him sharp with your mockery.
Brent Nichols
I love the LDD messages home and the shoutout to your TOP CHEF! It is a really important part of being a savvy traveler to always be super grateful to folks in the host country making your trip possible and enjoyable. Love to see you all doing that!
Colette Guillory
So glad to hear you started your community project.
Mia are so proud of your for embarking on this experience and helping with access to water ?.
Home updates
Arlo did not nap today so you know it was crazy. Bub has a job interview at GA tomorrow so wish him luck! All of my snap flashbacks were of you today so that made me smile! Can’t wait for you to be back. Rawr.
Saaji Mai
Maaanga .. did you just forget how to stand in a circle ? Or are you just used to being in the center ? ??❤️
– Saaji Mai
Janet Hobson
Hey Iris!!!
Can’t wait to see you tomorrow! We’re so proud of you. Cupid can’t wait to snuggle with you in bed, and Satchel is like a little lost puppy without you around to bug.
Love you… xoxoxo
Mom, Dad, Satchel, Cupid