Cookie Monsters

Jochi and I had fun passing out wafer cookies for snack on Tuesday's sports camp at the orphanage!

Sports Camp Comin at ya!

Its sports camp week--our biggest week of the summer! We have about 130 volunteers here and are putting on sports camps here at the orphanage as well as in a few neighboring villages. Here are a few pics of the first day ofcamp here at the orphanage ... we had over 300 kids attend ... here they are at the opening ceremony.

a view of the basketball & volleyball court areas in full action

Nicol helps pass out snacks to the massive amounts of kids!

Moncho & I

Moncho

Mangos @ the beach

Raisa eating a mango

The newest and littlest one here ...Franchesca ... age 1

Jennifer ... outta control hair, floaties, & enjoying a mango
Winston diving into a mango ...

... some more intense mango eating by Winston

Beach Day @ Costa Verde

We spent Saturday afternoon at Costa Verde beach with the kids ... here is Cristofer #1 (we have 3 Cristofers here)

Another classic Winston pic!

Luz Maria and I

Luz Maria

Cristofer with a face full of sand!

Jessica

Jennifer in the water with one of our interns- Monica

Another Island Adventure

Me, Bryan & Intern Katie on the docks before heading out to the island. This week the isummer interns as well as our Baltimore group got to visit the island off of Monte Cristi!

LOCO=CRAZY

last day of camp ... too much fun!

Liry & Santos ... who worked as a pretend "waiter" and served the kids snack at camp all week

From pink, to red ... Erin & I
Odalis, Manuel, Luis & I behind the snack bar

Interns- Heather, Katie and Ting, enjoying snack ... along with these cookie skills, Katie showed us that she can also fit a peso coin up her nose--very talanted!

EXTREME RAMADA MAKEOVER! ..."move that bus!"

1 Day. 15ish volunteers. 1 very messy storage ramada.

We spent a full day cleaning out an old workshop room, painting ply wood, and moving metal bunk beds to create a new sleeping ramada!

Before--
Orphanage Outreach Blue ...color for the new walls

painting ...

...getting cleaner

a view of the finished building!

Lei Necklaces @ English Camp

Paper flower cut outs and straw pieces were used to make this cool craft at art camp this past week!

Face Painting @ English Camp

Face Painting was a hit on the last day of English camp ... butterflies and flags were popular choices!

Victor with a Dominican flag "tattoo"

Me painting the Dominican flag on Victor's arm

Daritza

Yemi

Cristofer

Cute Face of the Day-- brought to you by Cristofer, age 2

SAFARI

Tom brought down over 50 Safari hats to add some flare to our English Safari Camp!

Jessica and I with the hats.

Liry and Jessica ... Liry attends university in Santiago, but she is here for the summer and is helping with the camps!
Jessica and Liry without the hats

English Camp-- SUMMER SAFARI

This is our first of 2 weeks of English camp! The theme is Summer Safari and everything is decorated in a Jungle theme. The camp is offered to 4th graders inthe morning (who will be in 5th grade in September and have the chance to come to our English school) and its offered to our current 5th grade English students in the afternoon, as a way to have fun and practice the English they've learned this year. The kids are divided up into animal named teams and so far they are having a great time!

Joselito modeling a Safari hat as he works on a picture at the Jungle Animal coloring station

Monica, one of our "Safari Guides" goes through the English alphabet with some of her campers

Red Rover in the park

...more of the Red Rover game

Marcelis and Briselis

Maria working on the Elephant team flag

The Orange Elephants and their team flag

the 4 SISTERS ...

Sisters-Nena, Luz Maria, Joanni and Indiana, on the shoulders of 4 of our Maryland volunteers