After lunch we had about an hour to rest, play cards, and make bracelets. We’re planning on handing out bracelets to kids at the handicap orphanage on Monday, so we’ve been making them all week. We then endured Santo Domingo traffic and headed to O & M College once more to play a game. We…
We started the day at 7:00am with a filling breakfast. It’s really neat getting to eat the local food. We all LOVE the pineapple, but here are everyone’s favorite foods so far: Hayley – Besitos de Coco Audrey – chicken Chelsea – fried cheese Me (Georgia) – avocados Autumn – assorted bread Elison – fried…
After a late lunch, we headed towards the city to the main grocery store to get enough food for 20 families. Cart by cart, we formed an assembly line throughout the store and filled them up with rice, beans, tuna, olive oil, and other Dominican necessities. We then ventured 30 minutes away to a sugarcane…
Sophomore Georgia McKee is serving as the Softball Mission Trip documentarian. Here is her first entry… ________________________________________ With a 2:45am departure from Belmont and 5:30 flight, we’re up and ready for a day of travel and training! We’ve embraced the sleep deprivation and have found lots of humor out it. People at the airports have been…
What. A. Day! I feel like I’m going to say that about every day…but is 7:00 here and everyone is in their room getting ready for bed. We are pooped from traveling to say the least but are LOVING every aspect of the Dominican so far. We faced a culture shock as soon as we…