Showing posts with label Dominican Republic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dominican Republic. Show all posts
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Safely Back from Their Second Community Service Trip to the Dominican Republic

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Their trip coincided (with a one day delay) with the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan and now, after a week, they have all...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Community Service in the Dominican Republic and The Bement School

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Last year, I began this blog about the same time as my daughter, who was then a 9th grader at The Bement School in Old Deerfield, Massachuse...
Monday, January 18, 2010

I had a Dream -- Celebrating Martin Luther King Day

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Last night I had a nightmare. In my dream I was back in high school, which was not my alma mater, Yonkers High School, but, rather, the high...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Aid Gridlock in Haiti, Being WISE, and What Should a Mother Do?

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The airport in Port-au-Prince at which many of the relief (and military) planes are landing, is gridlocked, with supplies not being dissemi...
Sunday, February 1, 2009

They are Back!

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The Bement School 9th graders returned last night around 9PM from their service trip to the La Suiza orphanage in the Dominican Republic, o...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Learning Experiences, Face-to-Face, Service in an Orphanage in the Dominican Republic

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Coincidentally, yesterday's New York Times (Sunday, January 25, 2009) had an article on trips to the Caribbean, just as my daughter was ...