May 18, 2011

Here you can see the resource shelf in the Kindergarden classroom in Bombita.  Many of the toys and games are broken and filthy, and most of the space is taken up with paperwork.  Clean and complete educational games and toys are desperately needed in both schools.    

May 17, 2011

This is student in second grade at the La Hoya school.  She was working very hard on an exercise at the chalk board.  As you notice, this is a different uniform than the other kids that have been pictured thus far.  This is the physical education uniform  that they wear the entire day on days they are scheduled to have PE class.

May 16, 2011

This is a very fiesty student from the Bombita school.  He was as sweet as could be when someone was speaking to him, but left to devices he was pulling girls’s braids, eating colored paper, and sniffing glue!  A total cutie pie none the less.

May 15, 2011

Here is a very smiley crab vendor on the side of the road from La Hoya to Barahona.  These men go out eraly in the morning to collect te crabs and then spend the rest of the day selling to passerbys.  If you notice, the grabs are held together by long grasses and cane plant leaves.  A group of crabs this size would cost up to 200 pesos, witch is about 5 American dollars.

May 14, 2011

At the beach you can see where the previous night’s high tide hit by following the line of garbage it brought with it.  As I was walking my sandal broke and I actually had quite a few replacements to choose from along the way back.  In this wave of rubbage you can find just about the same things you would find in the market: plastic jewelry, toys and trinkets, second hand clothes and shoes, and any number of plastic containers.

May 13, 2011

This is one of the wall murals at the school in La Hoya.  It is translated to “Protect the environment”.  It is a great message, but somewhat humorous because it is rather ignored.

May 12, 2011

Just outside of La Hoya there is this cemetery with a very stately entrance.  The grounds are well cared for and each resting place is decorated with wrought iron or bright paint.  It was very startling to stumble upon as it is surrounded by cane fields and just sort of pops up out of nowhere.