Sunday, July 27, 2014

Enjoy Life

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Today I visited a Haitian batey and the whole experience was extremely emotional for me. A batey is a sharecropping relationship Haitian immigrants have with sugar cane mills. The labor is so intensive and the wages are so low that no Dominican will do the work. So the sugar cane companies import...

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Donde No Hay Libros

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Today was my orientation day in Puerto Plata. I had the utmost pleasure of meeting Tricia Throndike Suriel. Tricia moved to the Dominican from the United States after visiting here and falling in love with the culture and people. She opened her own mountain bike business and eventually become...

The Butterflies

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The time has come! I'm sitting on the patio at my hotel in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic ready to embark on what will be one of the most life changing experiences I have ever partook in. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the generosity and selflessness of all my supporters. In February, I...
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