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04-20-2008, 06:51 PM | #16 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: knoxville
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| Wow! Looks like you had a good trip. It's great u got a chance to help these kids. I bet it meant a lot to them. I can't believe kids can teach w just a high school education. Btw...did u say Large bugs?!?! I don't think I could do it. Yuck! |
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04-20-2008, 07:10 PM | #17 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Jersey Shore
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| Hi Marcella. Great post. How did you get involved with the orphanage? I adopted my two boys from Guatemala. I spent a week there and then went back and spent another few days. This was with my older boy. We did not travel with our younger boy. He was escorted for us. It's very sad to see how children overseas live. I remember coming back at night from Antiqua and seeing a child about 3 yrs. old in tattered clothing, begging on the street corner at around 11pm or so at night. Hubby is a retired NY cop and seeing how the kids survive over there brought him to tears. It's very emotional visiting the orphanages etc. Elaine |
04-20-2008, 11:52 PM | #18 |
Donating YT 11K Club Member | Hi Marcella I was thinking of you and wondered where you were but then I remembered that you were in D.R. Thank you for sharing your pics, I have been to DR once but only to a resort, but i know how poor it is, i went to La Romana which was 3 hours from the resort and on the way we saw tons of poor ppl on the sides of the roads and sleeping at churches, babies with no clothes or diapers. I felt so bad. I def. want to volunteer in an orphanage, I was actually doing research one time cause I reaaaaally want to volunteer in Brazil but many of the places want you to pay just to volunteer, one place wanted $2000 for 2 weeks, incredible. Anyway i found an affordable place and I am going to check it out but first I want to learn some Portuguese. It's def. amazing and culture shock. Did you have any encounters with waterbugs???? I hate them! Good thing for those nets, otherwise you would have prob. found them next to you when you woke up. lol I plan to return to D.R. one day, also my bf is Dominican so I will prob. go with him, and he tells me i will expericne the REAL dr LOL
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04-21-2008, 05:11 AM | #19 |
I Love My Monkeys! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Falling Waters, WV
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| How wonderful of you to do that and what an amazing experience! I love the pictures and I'm so glad you went But we missed you and Simon missed his Layla A LOT!! |
04-21-2008, 08:37 AM | #20 |
My Four Sweet Babies Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Jersey near Philadelphia
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| Welcome Back, Marci! I'm glad you had such a great trip. The pictures are GREAT and so is the historical information you provided. I enjoyed the "show" so much! Thanks for sharing.
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04-21-2008, 09:41 AM | #21 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: A little town south of Chicago
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| Great travelog there LOL. Seriously I really enjoyed it. Will you be posting more pictures? How hot was it? |
04-21-2008, 11:13 AM | #22 |
Love My Li'l Lucy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Southern California
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| What a wonderful experience for you! Thank you for sharing your pictures...
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04-21-2008, 11:26 AM | #23 |
"& Seeger, too" Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Central Kentucky
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| Welcome back!! Glad you had such a wonderful experience..... to be able to help some kids in need!!! I am sure that it feels good to be home.... I bet that Layla is REALLY HAPPY that you are back with her.
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04-21-2008, 12:13 PM | #24 |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
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| ya the bugs were intense. The first night we got there (arrived at 12:30 am) we walked into our ramada to see a HUGE cockroach on the floor... i didn' tknow they CAME that big and the spiders are massive.. they have like a hard shell back... bleh... i shiver just thinking about them! |
04-21-2008, 12:15 PM | #25 | |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
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04-21-2008, 12:17 PM | #26 | |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
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well we never acutlaly KNEW the temperature. Today it is 25 (celcius) degrees here in Ontario an i find it cool.. we were talking today and it must have been around 35-38 degrees Fahrenheit. it was just HOT.. lol... the showers were cold and it was great to cool off but you got out... and you were sweating again | |
04-21-2008, 12:23 PM | #27 |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
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| per request... more pictures 1. This is a salt flat. They put salt water in here and the sun causes the water to evaporating leaving salt. It is a major industry in Monti Cristi and much of the salt we consume comes from flats like this one. 2. This is a park is dedicated to the Mirabel Sisters. They were the fighting force to rid Treheo. If you want to see an amazing movie- In the TIme of the Butterflies is amazing. We were shown it Tuesday night to get a better understanding of the Dominican history. 3. More recess! 4. a view from the top of the mountain on our sunrise hike! |
04-21-2008, 12:25 PM | #28 |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
Posts: 11,257
| 1. This clock tower is a major landmark on Monti Cristi. It was designed by Gustave Eiffel and was given as a gift from France. It is supposed to kinda resemble the Eiffel tower. |
04-22-2008, 04:52 PM | #29 |
2 Pups=Double Trouble! Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Iowa
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| Love all these pics...keep them coming (And, where are those LAYLA pics?!?)
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04-22-2008, 04:55 PM | #30 |
Loved by Layla Donating Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada
Posts: 11,257
| hahah... ya i gotta get to that i'm at school all this week and am completely exhausted.. probably still from the trip... so... i'll get to them |
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