Day 10: Closing reflection Day
Student Trip Blog
Hello Everyone!!! It is your Líderes Del Dia: Ronaldo and Jhael.
Today we all woke up super early at 7 am. ): Then we all ate breakfast: cereal alongside ham, cheese and some bread. After eating, we all gathered around for a morning mental warm up which was overall an introduction to how our day will go. It was exciting to tell everyone how we could be gathering with the locals for a COMMUNITY DAY!!! After discussing all the details, we all went on our safari truck which we have lovingly named & we always get very excited to get on since we all get to listen to music of our choices.
After getting to our destination of “Sonido Del Yaque”. When we got there we all were scared to go down the very steep mountain that was awaiting us. When we finally got down the steep hill we all met Esperanza, the NGO Founder for their community. It was very fun listening to her origin story of the entire community. It was also very heartwarming to listen how they came from nothing to a large and self sustainable community. After hearing the story of the town, we were all split up into groups of 4-5 to go with our “Family’s” to help them with chores. Jhael and I were assigned to sweep the floors outside of the houses. It wasn’t bad sweeping but it was very hot outside. After sweeping we all got to take a break and got the opportunity to buy locally handmade bracelets and necklaces, woven bags, snacks and a lot more. After a long time of us deciding what to buy, we finally had the chance to eat lunch. The lunch they served was really good for it just being rice, beans and chicken.
After lunch, the kids in the community invited us to play games, such as “Dominican Ninja” and “Quack Dilly Oso” for the last hour before having to leave. Much of the group bonded with the community, and kids especially, making saying bye all the harder, only worsened by having to hike back up the mountain. However, we eventually made it to the top where we would then take a short trip to the department store, although most of us had already used up all of our money on stuff in the community. After this we went over to Los Calabazos, where we planned for our CAP (Community Action Project) with the local leaders, which we will execute in a couple of days. More to come on what the project will be later this week! It was very tiring, especially since we all expected to go home after the department store. Then we went back to our living space where we had our free-time for a bit until it was dinner. Before dinner we were all using the stuff we bought at the department store. After this we finally had dinner after a long day and it was pretty good since it was some american food. After dinner ended we all had to distract Eavan (Birthday Boy) from his surprise birthday party as we set up (shout to all the students who worked on helping set the party up). We all decided to play UNO No Mercy before our nightly meeting. During the meeting Ronaldo and I sadly gave up our titles of being Lider Del Dias. We had to pass the torch and crown Tristan and Mary Carmen Lider Del Dias. After this we all got ready to celebrate Eavans birthday with his surprise birthday party. We all hid in the dining area to surprise him and it all went as planned. This is how we ended off our day as Lider Del Dias.
Big Shoutout to EAVAN!!! Happy birthday Eavan and I hope when you get back you enjoy the Late Happy Birthday Party!!!
From Ronaldo to parents- Hi mom and dad, how are you? Hope you don’t make any good food while I am gone because I miss home food. (And my phone).
Hola, mamá y papá, ¿cómo están? Me estoy divirtiéndo y todos aquí son muy amables. Espero saber de ustedes pronto. – Jhael.
Signing off,
The best Lider Del Dias (Jhael and Ronaldo)
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Comments (17)
Kamali
Tristan!!!! I’m so glad you are Lider Del Dias and so excited for the blog post. I miss you so much and miss your humor and love see your smile in all the pictures.
We are super proud of you and keep being you,
Tristan
Coco Dorneanu
Greatly job day leaders describing August 11th 2025!
Sending a extra special shout out to my amazing son Eavan! So warmed by the amazing people you spent your special day with. Grandma, your friends and family back home are sending you hugs, kisses and lots of love 💕
Mirian Lopez
Wow! I’m tired just reading about it!
Baby girl, hope you see the love and beauty that the Dominican Community represent. The compo is humbling but it’s the richest in culture. Plus you live waking up to chores, lesson learned, right? Lol
Miss you mucho,
Happy birthday Eavan!
Randy
Such a full and exciting day – look like the group is having fun together. Excited to hear about the CAP…Hope you are all taking in every minute of this amazing journey.
Nayeli Coria
Hello Ronaldo (Baby), we missing you so much. But I’m so happy to know you enjoying your trip. We love you so much. Don’t worry haven’t cooked good food for your sisters 😬🙂↔️. 🩷
Chaya
Hello Lucas, Mary and Justin!
I hope you got my messages from yesterday’s post. You guys are the cutest and I hope you are having the best time ever!
Emma and Razan wrote comments but idk if you got them yet. Everyone is loving watching your journey through the blog and we are all rooting you on! I hope you are playing lots of card games and are enjoying your iphone detox. Btw Justin, Razan saw Justin timberlake on greenwich ave and got a pic. Also port chester wingstop shut down. Sorry.
Love yall!
-Chaya
Adriana
Love what you’re doing Ronaldo! Thank you for making the world a better place <3
Adriana
Love what you’re doing Ronaldo! Thank you for making the world a better place <3
David Schweichler
Gonna try this again cause I’ve finally figured out how this is working. Thank you all for Eavan’s birthday celebration. It looked better than me or mom could have done. 🔥
Jaslene Elegar
Day 4 without Nancy
The Fazgang misses her very much
On another note sounds like a fun day. I hope you’re having a great time Nancy!!
– Member of the Fazgang
Clare Carroll
Congratulations to all of you and a big shout out to the birthday boy and the lider del Dias! Well done.
The trip sounds like an amazing adventure of hard work, lots of new foods, new friends and community. I know you will sleep soundly after such an active day.
Lucas we are missing you deeply. I am so sorry to have missed your call, I just keep replaying your voicemail to hear your voice. Ich liebe dich Baby Boy ♥️♥️♥️💕💕💕. Bailey waits outside your bedroom door for your return 🥰. Love love love you 😘 mom
Nikhil
Enjoy your travel and work yourself to your potentional!
Come back safe and sound too!
Ronaldo
Hey everyone hope you all are having a good time over there at Domenican Republic. I miss the time I was there myself a few weeks ago. Ronaldo hope your doing well over there, I have been wondering when we gonna play soccer again and will be waiting when you come back from D.R. Hope all is well and everyone is safe.See you all later-Alif
Ty Sullivan
First off…Happy Birthday Eavan!!!
So excited to hear about this exciting day and all the details laid out. Bravo journalists and great pictures of the days activities and celebration!
Want to say hello to our Skylar and say how wonderful it was to hear your voice today! I literally went back to teach class with misty eyes. Go ahead, make fun of me for being a mush, LOL. We love you Skylar! So VERY proud of you! MAD HUGS!!!!!!!
Skylar and guys you are missing so much news here, like there was a break-in at the wig factory. Police are combing the area.
But seriously, I’m going to stop writing now and get back into the house. I threw a boomerang on Saturday. Now I live in constant fear.
OK, I had to do a Double Dad Joke (blame Kissmely for this, LOL) 🙂
Peace & Love!
Ty, Kathy and Alexis, Buddy (the mutt) and Yuji (the cat) Sullivan
Silvia Cervantes
Hi jhael it’s your mom, just know I’m so proud of you, and am happy that your making friends along the way of your trip. We all miss you sooo much, even Brownie misses you, mostly because you walked him for hours but he still misses you, and even though your sister may not say it she is also proud of u and misses u, so keep having fun and see you soon (and Miguel says hi, and when you get back you have to memorize his number)
Sherly
HAPPY BIRFFFDAY EAVAANN LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO MUCH 🩷🩷🩷 I HOPE YOU ENJOYED YOUR CAP DAY I CANT WAIT TO HANG OUT WHEN YOURE BACKKKK
Jacqueline Cooper
I am so happy that my gandautauther is having a wonderful time out there
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