Mickey's 5th grade class

These 2 students are not in Mickey's class, but they are a couple of our favorite students at Doulos.

Hola

Hey everyone!
We are about 20 days into our trip and we are finally getting situated. We have a house we are renting, a car, couch and bed. Mickey is doing great with her 5th grade class. They are very nice, driven, and wild kids. We are having a lot of fun and taking pictures that we will be posting on this site very soon. We are also trying to have the internet set up at our house so we can be more active on this site and emailing everyone back at home. Mickey and I will update again soon....until then....take care!

We made it

Hello all,
After an unexpected overnight stop in Miami, we finally arrived in the Dominican last Friday. We are having a great time getting to know the people around Jarabacoa. Everyone is very friendly and helpful. We are currently living with the 6th grade teacher, Diane. She is very nice and has helped with a lot of our questions. We hope to have a place to rent by the end of the week, but some things move slowly down here. Our pets arrived safely and are enjoying the warmer weather.
Classes started yesterday for the students, and Mickey has a great class of 5th graders. She is working with Diane this week, and next week she will teach class on her own. I will update again very soon with Mickey, and include some great pictures from this week. I hope everything is going well back in Minnesota too!
-BEN