About a year ago I was discovering that a place called Doulos existed and needed a high school social studies teacher. Here and now I have been here for the better part of 9 months. After that much time in a place you generally develop some rhythm to life, and my time here has been no different. There are certain days I go to the gym, certain things I do when I get to school everyday, certain places I enjoy on the weekends, all of this creating somewhat of a comfort zone. A large part of my routine is rooted in what is happening at school and until recently it had a wonderful rhythm about it. In the last couple weeks leading up to our Expedition Night and even continuing through now things went a little haywire. Life has still been good, it just has felt a little more reckless. The combination of missing school a few days to do some school trips with the students got us a little off track but we returned and started to get back in the rhythm only for everything to be blown apart the next week. Part of this was do to the fact I had some wonderful friends visit, which was a lot of fun and a blessing to have them here. This was the first time I had taken any days off and I took 2 off for it. Expedition Day/Night also causes everything to be stirred up. We then returned to school this week for two days before having standardized testing for 3 days. All of this has been fine and it has been good for the most part but I am ready to return to the rhythm of day to day life. I know times like these work for a reason and are generally good to get us out of bad habit, but I am ready for consistency.
The students that I worked with on their project was the 10th grade class. The result of it is an attempt at bettering their community here in Jarabacoa by empowering them through knowledge and showing them the Love of Christ. If you want to see some of what they have been doing visit the Deja Una Marca Facebook friend page or fan page and connect to any of their other links from their.
Some fun pictures have been taken out of the whirlwind of activity the last few weeks, so here ya go.
The students that I worked with on their project was the 10th grade class. The result of it is an attempt at bettering their community here in Jarabacoa by empowering them through knowledge and showing them the Love of Christ. If you want to see some of what they have been doing visit the Deja Una Marca Facebook friend page or fan page and connect to any of their other links from their.
Some fun pictures have been taken out of the whirlwind of activity the last few weeks, so here ya go.
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