The buses were packed this morning bright and early, and our troops were shipped out. The drive was short, back tracking our way towards Santo Domingo. Our amazing crew of 18 students and adults from both Watkinson and UHSSE were able to accomplish a lot in just one day at the Joe Hartman School. We started our morning off with a tour from the principal to each and every classroom, where the students greeted us every time with an overwhelming Buenos Dias! We were able to meet with every grade and see what they were learning that day. It was quite the experience for our students to interact one on one with these young students. The tour was soon followed by working on the floor in the cafeteria being constructed. The students demonstrated amazing group effort with everyone putting in their all to move rocks and level out the gravel. Lunch followed, an amazing lunch to say the least, and so did time with the students in the court yard. Our afternoon at Joe Hartman looked like an assembly line to create and move wet concrete into the new kitchen to lay the floor. Our team was able to lay close to half the kitchen floor in a very short time! By that time school had been let out and we had quite the crowd of kids viewing from outside. They serenaded us with Despacito as we used a pitch axe to hack away at a rock/dirt pile. As the day at Joe Hartman came to a close, the rain came, but that didn’t scare away the kids from giving us mini heart attacks while they scaled the cinder blocks to get in. Overall our day at Joe Hartman was extremely productive and a great experience for all who went!
We closed out the night with our annual Tuesday night tradition: Los Toros, live from La Romana. In the fifth inning, the score was 0-6, no bueno para Los Toros. Nevertheless, we made it onto the live camera not once but twice- and even got a high five from Toro himself. We got home late, and everyone went straight to bed. Until tomorrow, everyone!
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