Wednesday, March 12, 2008

DR

my experience in the Dominican republic was a real eye opener to all the things that we have but we don’t pay attention to them because there common in the society. It was sad to see how some of the people had to live and in the conditions they have to live in. We had two groups and we both went to different places but each group was supposed t see 100 families with a maximum of 5 people in a family. Well is was so hard to turn down all the people that where asking for help that they looked like they need it so we allowed the group that was standing outside so our number or families at that point multiplied so we had 100 more families to see. At the end of the day we were running out of supplies and still had some people to see. One we saw the last one pack everything and left we saw over seven hundred people. To me the most satisfying feeling was when they left the little office we had for them they were really grateful that we were helping them. I will definitely do it again if I can because is really rewarding to see all those people with little resources and to hear their stories it was really a magnificent experience.

1 comment:

emilyanne said...

I think it's awesome that you chose to spend your spring break helping others instead of helping yourself. You don't find that very often. I know how you feel about feeling rewarded. A couple summers ago I went down to rebuild houses in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. It was really sad to see what had happened to people just like us. And that was in our own country!