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All Working Hard

  Today we all met for breakfast at Ben’s Hideaway, and gathered some more resources from the resource room before we were on our way.   Margaret and Dawn went back to the health clinic to look over birth records and were pleased to find they went all the way back to 1979!  They then […]

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Word Games

Marcia did the usual word frame introduction. I then paired the students and had them read to each other about the animal.  The teacher and I walked around the room reading with the students pronouncing and defining unfamiliar words.  There is a huge gap between recognizing the written word and being able to speak it. […]

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Learning about Romanian culture

Despite being tired from the weekend trip, September, Laura, and Lori were up a bit early and took a walk to the outdoor market. They had a fine time admiring all the vegetables for sale, and Laura and Lori each bought a jar of honey. Back at the hotel we held our usual morning meeting […]

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We Learn about our Work Projects in Anse la Raye, St. Lucia

 St. Lucia Day Two:  our first work day in the field, was an extremely unique and interesting experience. Team Alpha Dogs (Tony Lombardi, Sean, Cameron, Tyler, Kevin, myself (and our one Doggette, Melina) were off to an old abandoned building to help refurnish and reconstruct a facility for the “Youth on Fire” in Anse Le […]

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Weekend Safari

  I’m off to meet matron by 7:30 to attend students before classes. It is Friday but no body seems particularly enthused the weekend is here. We had a lot of students with colds and stomach pain, a cough who were referred the teachers (a) morning break and it was great to see them and […]

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Meant To Be

A sunny”home” for an RCP mom’s Earth Box. Volunteers gathering for breakfast; thought of the day; the journal reading; loading in the bus; off to our projects – it has been a long time for me since my last Global Volunteers program,  but I feel at home again.  Meeting the staff at the RCP; walking through the […]

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Work and Routine

  “My son Ajohny enjoys watering the plants.  He is two years and four months old.  I hold him up to the Earth Box, he waters it.” Zarana proudly pointed at her Earth Box, which was flourishing on a board creatively invented by one of her brothers.  With a beautiful smile, Zarana said “I love […]

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First Day of Community Projects

  Today dawned bright and beautiful at JJ’s Paradise hotel in lovely St. Lucia. The day held a special air of excitement as all the Global Volunteers looked forward to our first REAL day of work, with our Anse La Raye partners.   Anticipation mounted as we quickly dispensed with breakfast and received our transportation […]

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Global Volunteers, Team 7 St. Lucia

  Who can describe the feeling of excitement preparing to land in a country you’ve never been to before?  You get that first glimpse out of the airplane window of the numerous green mountains seemingly dropped from above competing to be more grand than the crystal blue Carribean.  St. Lucia—Where are we? What are we […]

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Tiny Treasures

This past week, I have met some very special children and the wonderful people who care for them.  Two of the children were in isolation due to chicken pox, and that limited the number of children who could come from the placement center this week.  But I thoroughly enjoyed the children I did meet. Alina […]

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