With beautiful warm weather and bright sunshine streaming through the palm fronds, our crew spent about eight hours with the girls and women of the Mariposa Foundation. The young girls who welcomed us in the morning with smiles, hugs, and hand-holdings then read with us in the library and played math games with us on the blacktop. After a delicious traditional lunch of chicken, rice, salad, and beans, the older Mariposas took over the facility and finished the day by thoroughly trouncing our kids in a surprisingly intense game of softball. We finished the day at the beach in Sosua before heading back to the hotel for dinner, reflections on our first full day in the Dominican, and polishing teaching plans for Wednesday's classes at the Coral School. Just 36 hours into our trip, the students report being touched by the smiles of the Mariposas and rocked by the sensory overload of the DR.
To get a better idea of what the Mariposa Foundation does, please visit their website at http://www.mariposadrfoundation.org where you'll find photos, videos, and more.
Additionally, we've set up an Instagram account so that everybody on this trip can share pictures with each others and their friends and families. For the photographic record of our trip, follow us at "bmdrtrip" on Instagram.
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