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Immersion Experience: Dominican Republic
THE DAY THE TRENCH BEGINS
Students start working in the campo.
Today was the first day we spent working in the campo. We all slept with our host families, and from what I have heard, everyone’s host families are amazing, and everyone has been trying out their Spanish. This morning we were all expected to be at breakfast by 7:30. And our host families were supposed to wake us up around 6:30-7, but the host family I am staying with, along with Addie, Brook and Katelyn, didn’t wake us up, so when we were being picked up to go to breakfast, we were all still in bed. We got ready in record time and went to breakfast with a quick pit stop to look at puppies and baby pigs. We accidentally made everyone wait 30 minutes to start breakfast. Everyone was very tired, but breakfast was delicious and gave everyone energy.
After breakfast, we got on a bus to take us to the top of the “mountain” where we would be doing our aqueduct. They put us to work immediately, laying pipes down the road. And this we still managed to mess up. So, Lucas and I went along flipping every pipe to the correct direction and during this time everyone had been put to different tasks. Some were digging the trench; others were gluing the pipes together, and then some others were being our saviors and filling up waters and walking them around to us all. We got about a kilometer (give or take) into the pipes. Gluing, digging, laying and covering we all were going, wow, we’d done so much. Mrs. Ortiz had told us we had done more work in that day than her previous classes had in past years. We must be getting close to lunch. We asked the time, ITS 1035. We were dying. We were all tired and sweaty and ready for food. But we all locked for 3 more hours in because we got a snack of cheese, salami and crackers. Got another cartload of pipes laid down and double that of a trench dug by the time we got lunch.
After lunch, we got free time to take a much-needed shower, maybe go to play baseball with the local kids and get into Carter’s favorite mode of chill. And that’s where we are now. Chilling, singing and playing cards, screaming when they are playing spoons.
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After breakfast, we got on a bus to take us to the top of the “mountain” where we would be doing our aqueduct. They put us to work immediately, laying pipes down the road. And this we still managed to mess up. So, Lucas and I went along flipping every pipe to the correct direction and during this time everyone had been put to different tasks. Some were digging the trench; others were gluing the pipes together, and then some others were being our saviors and filling up waters and walking them around to us all. We got about a kilometer (give or take) into the pipes. Gluing, digging, laying and covering we all were going, wow, we’d done so much. Mrs. Ortiz had told us we had done more work in that day than her previous classes had in past years. We must be getting close to lunch. We asked the time, ITS 1035. We were dying. We were all tired and sweaty and ready for food. But we all locked for 3 more hours in because we got a snack of cheese, salami and crackers. Got another cartload of pipes laid down and double that of a trench dug by the time we got lunch.
After lunch, we got free time to take a much-needed shower, maybe go to play baseball with the local kids and get into Carter’s favorite mode of chill. And that’s where we are now. Chilling, singing and playing cards, screaming when they are playing spoons.
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