Our visit to Jarabacoa .......

Today we went to see Leona, April & Jeff . We enjoyed a beautiful drive through the country side. It took about two and a half hours to get there. We took lots of pictures. On the left you can see a truck loaded with feedbags. And on top of the load , the guys that are going to unload it. Everything goes. It is kind of scary by times. You hope that nobody falls off.
Beside us on the left is Angela, she is holding Bill and Krista's sponser child. She talks about a mile a minute. All the kids at the school were really cute and loved to get their picture taken.


On the right you can see the Luymes family reunited for a picture with Flat Stanley. Our friend from PEI. He seemed quite impressed with Jarabacoa. He did learn a thing or two as well. Leona toured us around in the school. It is a wonderfull building, with lots of smiling kids and teachers. On the right you see Stanley hanging out with the kids and their teacher.

On the right is the school where
Leona is teaching. We had coffee with her in the lunchroom. While the kids were getting their hot meal for the day. For a lot of kids, this is the only meal that they get.

We also took Flat to the coffee factory in town. The coffee is grown locally. Here he is getting right into the picking of the coffee beans. We figured he might as well do the whole tour. On the right you see coffee beans drying on cement. These beans have already been hulled. Normally, when it doesn't rain as much as it has been lately, the beans dry in four or five hours. But now it takes more like three days. After the tour we all had a sample. Even Pete who never drinks coffee. We may make a coffee drinker out of him yet.
This picture was taken behind the school. Jarabacoa is located on a platue fairly high up in the mountains. It is surrounded by a ring of mountains.


The scenery was breathtaking. I took a lot more pictures of the scenery between Santo Domingo and Jarabacoa, but we will save that for another time.
We are all doing just great, still growing in our faith and as a group we are getting to know each other pretty good. Tomorrow we are going back to work. We put our supplies together this afternoon. And we are getting up at six again tomorrow.
Thanks to everyone of you that has posted comments. It means the world to us here. The first question I get when we get back to the compound is: Any comment? So you can see, it is big around here. Until next time, this is your team in the D.R.