Close Up

My fav pic from the trip ...

Beach Volleyball

We knew Jazmin was a good volleyball player, but in Cabarete we got to test her skills on the beach ... she'd never played on sand before.

Jazmin, Jen and Emily
then came an interuption ... the culprit- this shoe shine boy

He started to play, but just kept hitting the ball out of bounds so someone would have to go fetch it. Does Bryan look annoyed?

Joella and our pest.

Bryan ready to duke it out with the kid ...

Meghan was not laughing ...

Finally, when they told him he couldn't play anymore, he sat on his shoe shine box and they played around him :)

Pit Stop ...

We decided to make a pit stop, on the way back from our trip, at Fun City go cart park ... where a nice little tip to the track guys made our cars go faster and our track time last a lot longer than normal!

Jazmin, Me, and Bryan waiting to race ...Jazmin does not yet have her driver's license, and this little excursion taught us that that's probably a good thing!

El Gordo

Santos ... 118 lbs of pure muscle :) .... although he eats more than anyone here, Santos manages to stay the skinniest 6-foot-tall kid we know. Here he is upon arrival at the beach of Cabarete, just before heading to lunch where he ordered a DIABLO pizza.

Cabarete Trip

An overnight trip to Cabarete with the interns, Santos, Jazmin and the Peguero Family. Even though it rained both days, we used the pool and had a good time. Here's a pic of our hotel.

...and a view of the main pool, Santos on the floatie raft
Cristofer in the mini pool with his "boat"

Cristofer kept us all entertained at the pool

Bryan and Jazmin at the gun show

Even though it looks like they're jumping into an empty pool, it was actually full and the wall below them was a little waterfall that lead into the big pool.

Cristofer and Bryan

Bryan teaching Cristofer how to swim

One of our interns, Jen, creeping out of the deep end ...

Too bad Jazmin, your going in ...

Bryan & Cristofer

Bryan and Cristofer on the bus on our overnight trip to Cabarete.

No more talking Bryan, its time for a picture.

Terrible Two Gang

Jennifer, Luz Maria and Franchesca are the 3 little rugrats from the orphanage who aren't yet in school ... all are around the age of 2. Here's Jennifer ...carrying a broom somewhere, and I'm pretty sure she's not about to clean ...

Luz Maria and Jennifer

Carmelito, 6, leading the way for Luz Maria, age 2
Luz Maria

Jennifer, also age 2, making such a precious face!

Franchesca, not quite 2, but still part of the gang

Luz Maria with cube shaped hair ties ...probably more hair-tie than hair

Jennifer ...

Franchesca ...with a deer in headlights kind of look

more English school ...

Some of our 2 o clock English students waiting to get into class ... the line up usually starts pretty early! Our classes are almost as popular as a Spice Girls concert.

3 of the English level 2 students out in the next door park- Julisa, Rosa Maria and Alondra
Jessica and Donald doing an activity on the white board with one of our Fall volunteetrs ...the white boards are still new and exciting for the students this year!

2 Fall volunteers working in the work books with English 2 students

Hola Vida! Vida was our September STUDENT OF THE MONTH for English 2. She is one of our best students! (in English, her name means Life)

An Uno game with volunteers ...good review of numbers, colors and time to chat in English with Americans.

English School Fashion Show

What better way to learn the words for clothing than to have a fashion show! Here is Perla, one of our English teachers, and some of the English 2 students.

Let the fashion show begin ...
Briselis wearing a JACKET and SUNGLASSES and Melanie wearing a DRESS.

Here are Jessica and Yinel modeling UMBRELLAS

up next ...Daritza wearing SUNGLASSES, a BLOUSE and JEANS

and Yanelca in a SHIRT

Some pics from the week ...

Jennifer la mala ... causin trouble all day and all night like its her job!

Joella leading a Bingo game out in one of the local schools
Jazmin and Nicol putting up the volleyball net at the orphanage

What are you eating!? Gregory and Jaury snack on some Con Con (aka- burnt crunchy rice)

Jennifer and toothless Domingo

Nicol, Jazmin and Bryan about to play some volleyball

Luz Maria and I