We've been back since January 4th ...and pics will be coming soon! Bryan's parents came back with us and will be here for about 2-3 weeks to help with some of the construction projects we have going on this Spring. During our first week back, Bryan and his dad lead other volunteers in the construction on a big pavilion type building that will be used for volunteer eating space. We then took a few days to travel up to Cabarete with them for beach time, rest time and a lot of good food ...now we are back in Monte Cristi, continuing to work on several other construction projects and running the English Institute. Starting next week our Spring volunteer groups will begin to make Feb-May a very busy time of year! Lots of pics to come ...lots of exciting things going on down here.
(Pic-Jennifer ...who is talking A LOT now)
Jessica and Marianny before heading off to wash their hair
Marianny in Bryan's hat
me giving Nicol her manicure
Here is the 1st grade class singing the Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes song ...
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Moncho and Marianny in their 2nd grade class working on a worksheet with a classmate
Cristofer in pre-1st grade
the pre-1st grade class holding up their coloring pages
Below- the group sorts donations of clothes and other supplies that they brought for the orphanage. 
All of the kids received a shoe box full of gifts and supplies from an organization in the US ...one of the items in Moncho's shoe box was a pair of sunglasses ...in this pic we're taking off the sticker labels from them.
Jessica ...still flashing her smile and some attitude on the side...
With her sister-Luz Maria
again, with Luz Maria
Modeling volunteer name tags- upsidedown
there's a new face!
