tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34557759553917602092024-03-12T23:38:51.291-07:00Beyond BordersBeyond Borders is a non profit orgnanization envisioned and run by Berklee students, to serve struggling communities and increase local awareness of global issues. The annual Beyond Borders fundraiser will generate financial support for the featured community while educating the public. Beyond Borders will also send a team of students to the community to supply a week of specialized music programs.Beyond Bordershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07849764012907544993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455775955391760209.post-19430046259974781422010-07-26T15:59:00.000-07:002010-07-30T13:39:43.819-07:00Project HERO 2010<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">“Beyond Borders is an organization that breaks boundaries and goes against the odds.</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It’s about using your art and making a difference.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It is time that we as musicians take our music back and speak about issues that matter to the </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">common people of this world.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">For too long our industry has been controlled by the elite who’s only motive in life is money </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">and power.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Music used to be a tool used for binding and expressing the unspeakable.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It’s time we give music back to the people that truly need it.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It’s time for them to make art that is genuine, art that everyone can relate to.”</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Beyond Borders Founder, Jennifer Manzanillo</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">There you are!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We’ve been waiting for you!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We’re Beyond Borders’ Team HERO and we would like to share a little taste of the Dominican Republic with you!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Below you can meet the team, get a visual of the experience, and even peek into our journals from the 2010 trip to Monte Cristi, DR!</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgiO-fYdFV9wl1f18XGg7vW4P_GRhQgOo_RMCv8k7N9ZyNtHdzxJQoCf8_Rhcy8CFfFn0tL_jom3LM05qHyD2xNKbhTt8LLYqlaJ9mmMDMshJYvSRAAQA-RbJ5Vl5cJZ3irQPcRmNl4A/s1600/1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499399544189934530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgiO-fYdFV9wl1f18XGg7vW4P_GRhQgOo_RMCv8k7N9ZyNtHdzxJQoCf8_Rhcy8CFfFn0tL_jom3LM05qHyD2xNKbhTt8LLYqlaJ9mmMDMshJYvSRAAQA-RbJ5Vl5cJZ3irQPcRmNl4A/s320/1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">If you haven’t heard us fundraising at the Mezzanine Table, or were scared to get close enough to hear about our vision, Beyond Borders is a student club at Berklee aiming to spread “peace, love and unity through the power of music.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We feel that the best place to do this is where the need is greatest, such as a little island in the Caribbean.</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">In many of the rural and impoverished communities within the country, music education is virtually unheard of.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Therefore dormant seeds of talent often lay buried deep in the hearts of less fortunate children, never to sprout and blossom.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">As individuals who have each had a run in with the power of music, we feel that music is not extraneous entertainment, but rather an incomparable tool of expression; and what is humanity without communication?</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Determined to Stand Up for Change on behalf of the Dominican children, a group of college kids from all walks of life embarked on a 9 month journey of preparation which culminated in a week spent in Monte Cristi sharing music and love.</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlSblFgYDw7BoTDig7Hz0ToKN1P64t8vdTpQvj0W2tDEU6lkaN2-vcl7DUAmF0BCRsQE29HyrdU0H9mjvGdg050NGJuw9xZMxp-hsIM4Yoa6yqjr37BmLB_NJJSN4zPv6v3rPqGGPe2dA/s1600/2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499399552170863266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlSblFgYDw7BoTDig7Hz0ToKN1P64t8vdTpQvj0W2tDEU6lkaN2-vcl7DUAmF0BCRsQE29HyrdU0H9mjvGdg050NGJuw9xZMxp-hsIM4Yoa6yqjr37BmLB_NJJSN4zPv6v3rPqGGPe2dA/s320/2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 238px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Now...</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Introducing Team HERO (Helping Everyone Reach Opportunities) and their super powers!</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Name: Jennifer Manzanillo </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Co-Founder and Director </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPq612WAsx0BSbhANB6S00aDlFPOeO31t2mAV2SJBHholl1iXB-bTGoMzwUZKStwLBSVw_SG4yX2CxPSXvC6ZdnvKkB9_EwoEH3BopIcQ5w2cYbCiJOdN3GVPJ92Xyb-qDPsVFoyfddk4/s1600/3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499399556322109554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPq612WAsx0BSbhANB6S00aDlFPOeO31t2mAV2SJBHholl1iXB-bTGoMzwUZKStwLBSVw_SG4yX2CxPSXvC6ZdnvKkB9_EwoEH3BopIcQ5w2cYbCiJOdN3GVPJ92Xyb-qDPsVFoyfddk4/s320/3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 225px;" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Heritage: Dominican Bostonian</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Berkee Profile: 6</span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">th</span></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> semester, Music Education/Professional Music Major, Voice Principal</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Superpower: Vision</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Jennifer is a HERO because she dreams big.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Name: Hannah Slater</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Co-founder/Associate Director</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPkyAfTZp98k17Bm1RVg3ST6Ynjv1ouZdnDp1-CJyLxZKdZgwYb2K7WdVj8SvxAKkXNkaUQS_dmS9BMdfKkVdwfmDW0QgOegT0h58-8rOCiyktWEkRzjOrm9wPZNS_t9As1nwVXrzh_I/s1600/4.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499399564888780338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPkyAfTZp98k17Bm1RVg3ST6Ynjv1ouZdnDp1-CJyLxZKdZgwYb2K7WdVj8SvxAKkXNkaUQS_dmS9BMdfKkVdwfmDW0QgOegT0h58-8rOCiyktWEkRzjOrm9wPZNS_t9As1nwVXrzh_I/s320/4.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Heritage: Arizona</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Berklee: 4</span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">th</span></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Semester, Music Therapy Major, Piano Principal</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Superpower: Dedication </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Hannah is a HERO because she focuses on the goal rather than her emotions. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Heritage:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">China/Washington State</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Berklee Profile: 6</span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">th</span></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Semester, Music Business Major, Voice Principal</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Superpower: Empathy.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Lijie is a HERO because feels the needs of those around her.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Project HERO, 2010</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span></span><br />
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<b><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Sunday, May 9</span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Our adventures began at 6 am with the ringing of Christina’s phone: “You’re lying. Stop Lying! Mom, be serious…guys, my mom said the flight’s been canceled…You’re serious?...Guys, she’s serious!” </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Having pulling a solid all-nighter the long awaited moment finally arrived, and now we would miss not only the first flight, but the connecting one, and our bus to the orphanage. Cell phones popped up all over the team, and we were each assured that there were no timely flights available for us. Each of us except for Gabriel that is, who somehow managed to charm 6 seats out of the Customer’s Service girl, and within the hour we were at the gate! </span></span></span></span></div></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFjixVxjNbB5DLY4mWre-ockU6TpAkxdhPAvany-U1P_ekO1DcUb6Jga37_NDQHzyT88W984WS3Teb-5ss5uC7WGhujjWwAXvdM3nklPT5Gjogi-asnI-YnbPIMsuWYaYTycP-57WvvM/s1600/9.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499401710229350146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFjixVxjNbB5DLY4mWre-ockU6TpAkxdhPAvany-U1P_ekO1DcUb6Jga37_NDQHzyT88W984WS3Teb-5ss5uC7WGhujjWwAXvdM3nklPT5Gjogi-asnI-YnbPIMsuWYaYTycP-57WvvM/s320/9.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The next several hours consisted of two flights and a long bus ride through the island.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisc3yAEc_AO3I9MnEfCqXCBE4DmR_mvW0yz6Lzs2oq-rQhNPlGJ4Ph0Wdl2FhBSHtAT-9D6d34Ydxmu3xM-Q6iu9z5NejSH6KxrE9t849GaNaw1DIyj6o8zVQWQyivdSJ9w1_16xKYPm0/s1600/10.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499414861491436994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisc3yAEc_AO3I9MnEfCqXCBE4DmR_mvW0yz6Lzs2oq-rQhNPlGJ4Ph0Wdl2FhBSHtAT-9D6d34Ydxmu3xM-Q6iu9z5NejSH6KxrE9t849GaNaw1DIyj6o8zVQWQyivdSJ9w1_16xKYPm0/s400/10.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 307px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Jennifer</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It was late by the time we reached the orphanage so we were anxious to collapse into our summer-camp style cabins, but duty called!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Upon arrival we found out that the classes we’d prepared for were very different than the classes we were actually going to teach.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Into the garbage went our months of curriculum planning, and straight into a brainstorm went Team HERO.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Eventually we were tucked comfortably into our mosquito-nets and drifting asleep to the beats of the night club down the street.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgH708j0d-PFyVBT0Hmq8C-bxct76VPjktve_a_8kyVrrPRAxUA8MQ3JSZTFHJpz_OLybhHeaKUrfmmhH8BysEOzAnPkNaffTp3dtwnqmTwu-AifMl4-Hkl5-ZLrjQa__hLbyK0XpUb7s/s1600/11.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499404395692627570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgH708j0d-PFyVBT0Hmq8C-bxct76VPjktve_a_8kyVrrPRAxUA8MQ3JSZTFHJpz_OLybhHeaKUrfmmhH8BysEOzAnPkNaffTp3dtwnqmTwu-AifMl4-Hkl5-ZLrjQa__hLbyK0XpUb7s/s320/11.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">(above: Esperanza de Un Nino Orphanage)</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Monday, May 10 </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Morning always comes early the Monday after finals, but especially when you’ve been traveling with 5 Berklee students s to the Dominican Republic!</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFR5xbIXydzCoYz9LohFTIC8_av2XBrmeWO9b6DOdNOaAXfr7_lpaU3jzw_SrGOIRdyR9bHejdX_ufa0aG-nuKQq7nvfNuFYjxdig70ezQ_tjKoiyYNT_bpvqLrUgCn7txUbnusGJPSk/s1600/12.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499404406888246098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjFR5xbIXydzCoYz9LohFTIC8_av2XBrmeWO9b6DOdNOaAXfr7_lpaU3jzw_SrGOIRdyR9bHejdX_ufa0aG-nuKQq7nvfNuFYjxdig70ezQ_tjKoiyYNT_bpvqLrUgCn7txUbnusGJPSk/s320/12.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Nonetheless, breakfast arrived in the open air cafeteria and so did we, well, most of us anyway!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Orphanage outreach, with whom we stayed, is an amazing organization that every year accommodates thousands of young men and women who want to make a difference.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It was an interesting atmosphere for 6 Berklee students!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Adopting the rules of the church that owned the property, we weren’t even aloud to pick our nose!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Well, ok, we provably could have gotten away with that, but let’s just say it was a little different than staying at 150!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I think we were all a little nervous about teaching.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We must have looked like yesterday’s band leaving town as we marched down the road with guitars, djembes, maracas, claves, shakers, a triangle, a rain stick.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Oh, and a bag of candy!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We stopped outside a stucco wall crowned with barbed wire, and were let into the school yard.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It was an elementary school where many deal of the orphans who Orphanage Outreach cares for study.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The hours which ensued would be best described as…well…chaos?</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Or shall we say EXCITING?</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXAa2Ovvf6lUOXPbuC6wYbzlN5iQKv1rx_CDVWna5O30kLbbsMMMjP_mSiX4F23w3z1mlcmQZwEMlTe07t2vCuXUFYgVt1RjM7AAz-ElurzhZtflx-HOy5vUlOmCF1NVf3mDSoqL9-tsk/s1600/13.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499404418058331778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXAa2Ovvf6lUOXPbuC6wYbzlN5iQKv1rx_CDVWna5O30kLbbsMMMjP_mSiX4F23w3z1mlcmQZwEMlTe07t2vCuXUFYgVt1RjM7AAz-ElurzhZtflx-HOy5vUlOmCF1NVf3mDSoqL9-tsk/s320/13.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> The kids were so excited about the instruments and, caught on quickly.</span></span></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8C868GcgYda_WIReq211CZqf09vLnA1_mfPt2P46bVMNQJ33P-mBPcizFs0O0I-jtB6C7ODYNe21nGit0f5LMKwqJ4Td97dxOQOhHLkS4bM39kgMxkE4AHzbEzrSulh_eE4H4mJ4U9PM/s1600/15.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499404426079668306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8C868GcgYda_WIReq211CZqf09vLnA1_mfPt2P46bVMNQJ33P-mBPcizFs0O0I-jtB6C7ODYNe21nGit0f5LMKwqJ4Td97dxOQOhHLkS4bM39kgMxkE4AHzbEzrSulh_eE4H4mJ4U9PM/s320/15.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 287px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Lijie </span></span></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilFFGpTjMpyN2_dLXO8uvShr68OVQvqO2I7bckVCQXWwqwn93X-3_BOfkJYEQ6ROznM5m2RUIp-O3-tpem5-tYPJLxkznMnqrY-JGZBoaSuMBgEPZfh5cgMr0UZkAI_04NwoXyzUKhItY/s1600/16.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499406012562465154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilFFGpTjMpyN2_dLXO8uvShr68OVQvqO2I7bckVCQXWwqwn93X-3_BOfkJYEQ6ROznM5m2RUIp-O3-tpem5-tYPJLxkznMnqrY-JGZBoaSuMBgEPZfh5cgMr0UZkAI_04NwoXyzUKhItY/s320/16.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 315px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The classes were so large and the kids so energized we decided to split them up which sent half the team and the kids into the open play yard and blaring sun.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Some listened well, and some ran well…in all the wrong directions.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The times when the kids really tuned in however, were invaluably precious.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjETEXSbMR7Nc5wkGUNaHmgGJTx5QmXZh-37R2SBT7Yd90fIdCE9fhCa-5EPTVdJitQUsyAZq8qENz4SAwA-VtQZ_sWai5BN-BiJQTE_w6DWDYoCLGsAzB3vhGVD3mVXPw4Ma9LwSWdJUk/s1600/17.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499406020689511778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjETEXSbMR7Nc5wkGUNaHmgGJTx5QmXZh-37R2SBT7Yd90fIdCE9fhCa-5EPTVdJitQUsyAZq8qENz4SAwA-VtQZ_sWai5BN-BiJQTE_w6DWDYoCLGsAzB3vhGVD3mVXPw4Ma9LwSWdJUk/s320/17.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It was such a privilege to put the djembe in front of them and watch their faces as they experimented with the different slaps and bass drum hits!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG6rfFrT1_2Hb0iB93uymJ53y8MzPgp-93d3huoxi74mHvi2zcBwxx31eqZzq9luGPmbgM_rlz4HDn1OaSmLyqyaJOxavMGQCPm744Gw7DoLg5SB6usqTjwcGRcJFteWYG35adOvc3TNk/s1600/18.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499406027663486450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG6rfFrT1_2Hb0iB93uymJ53y8MzPgp-93d3huoxi74mHvi2zcBwxx31eqZzq9luGPmbgM_rlz4HDn1OaSmLyqyaJOxavMGQCPm744Gw7DoLg5SB6usqTjwcGRcJFteWYG35adOvc3TNk/s320/18.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 306px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The morning session was with third graders, but after a break for lunch and some delicious Dominican ice-cream…</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ah3Pds5ex9N4HUQ0u_15SB5-u74oeW5QXVBtYcnvIixEfBIuBqXjnpru7azFRH7tOOhXyEBwFrXLeHsilMb_1DOYhdPz8z5LUQporOpWbXRrHnJlNluXzV7ykJS73LPu-K95-MenMB4/s1600/19.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499406038504249458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ah3Pds5ex9N4HUQ0u_15SB5-u74oeW5QXVBtYcnvIixEfBIuBqXjnpru7azFRH7tOOhXyEBwFrXLeHsilMb_1DOYhdPz8z5LUQporOpWbXRrHnJlNluXzV7ykJS73LPu-K95-MenMB4/s320/19.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
we headed back to teach the seventh graders.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsnKj_7zudqpgxsyUDeMa50RNFUf9xdxNCcpow2jFtcO7FYSJPuDBeG6zeCB8NZZnBJQlpohNC4gcdmkDE1NIeUG4xG0pXw1bQzIiSEg6SzR_5MZK1fOgUOPtZh1BlMGMTiro45YYw6o/s1600/20.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499415325760275794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsnKj_7zudqpgxsyUDeMa50RNFUf9xdxNCcpow2jFtcO7FYSJPuDBeG6zeCB8NZZnBJQlpohNC4gcdmkDE1NIeUG4xG0pXw1bQzIiSEg6SzR_5MZK1fOgUOPtZh1BlMGMTiro45YYw6o/s400/20.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 294px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Gabriel</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Not only was class time great, but we also had the privilege of hanging out with them between periods!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"></span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmzivnfOeVALkHMOTcHb4z6sL-oqkZfOHvBF4iparhDKW56GT6l_zQRP3aVZ2_N9iEVjJPQb-EYFeKbnmIdQw1xKheb7djp59Myc63oTLwoDb7x7b3x83HWy2Ah5FVt2kSCDoWkzcJ3qc/s1600/21.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499407528131075346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmzivnfOeVALkHMOTcHb4z6sL-oqkZfOHvBF4iparhDKW56GT6l_zQRP3aVZ2_N9iEVjJPQb-EYFeKbnmIdQw1xKheb7djp59Myc63oTLwoDb7x7b3x83HWy2Ah5FVt2kSCDoWkzcJ3qc/s320/21.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 180px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgodUSdHeEed_i9ZmZppavpm66NUZ95siymRw9yfmes06DZIHMl2K0kSjiK8N_DZRzMmeDsaTHPODKudKgh80MR9L3zbkafnvH5Hrbqz0Zdelvdlx5Vw15dUxhkNyHkzv13aR5t1TLkfcI/s1600/22.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499415317759420706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgodUSdHeEed_i9ZmZppavpm66NUZ95siymRw9yfmes06DZIHMl2K0kSjiK8N_DZRzMmeDsaTHPODKudKgh80MR9L3zbkafnvH5Hrbqz0Zdelvdlx5Vw15dUxhkNyHkzv13aR5t1TLkfcI/s400/22.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 280px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Josh</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">In the evening we headed back to the orphanage and had free time, which consisted of a celestial mix of warm, orange sunshine, soothing breezes and the jingling laughter of children running around the orphanage.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">With some preparation for tomorrow, </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2yT6ZH_uO35ktVX-zW6rPEDXU-GRj3zsfZa6gDsHrWq8PiNb_D05bIucxH3dSPZF3QHsati47jpfCxkqCvZEe5aByb5dNj4oqFoPAnw1ZGA0MPPwIDpsrqaNKEK6C5rAGnC_dhPbO7M/s1600/23.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499407541662060898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2yT6ZH_uO35ktVX-zW6rPEDXU-GRj3zsfZa6gDsHrWq8PiNb_D05bIucxH3dSPZF3QHsati47jpfCxkqCvZEe5aByb5dNj4oqFoPAnw1ZGA0MPPwIDpsrqaNKEK6C5rAGnC_dhPbO7M/s320/23.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">our first day of teaching came to a close.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1q49LVUhCS5A5wXPqiDmcPBhLqYW7MEDVK1X8bgZbVa9qtJYcB5461_uoSvs_4auGGPbCeGAQKcXGzhdya1TCVIBo5Cuvy6tBvpVYnpkSZ7NwMhuis2QyRAyraJohyphenhyphenWcO5WNQ88OiGM/s1600/24.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499407546093594514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1q49LVUhCS5A5wXPqiDmcPBhLqYW7MEDVK1X8bgZbVa9qtJYcB5461_uoSvs_4auGGPbCeGAQKcXGzhdya1TCVIBo5Cuvy6tBvpVYnpkSZ7NwMhuis2QyRAyraJohyphenhyphenWcO5WNQ88OiGM/s320/24.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">D.R.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Now we’ll take a little detour from our daily routine to tell you a bit about the Dominican Republic itself! </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0jkNjwPoNU1UH9ousPGmGESTb4gvzi8LPilE3x7UP1ihUfEwOUY1WLpL54uCVGrnvw549ikGvRA7OmNHxDFO4cTipYNlnh4j6cg4W7uT39plqv7n8IDGmW7PGXhH8sd-74jdwbqdOPkg/s1600/25.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499407552905084338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0jkNjwPoNU1UH9ousPGmGESTb4gvzi8LPilE3x7UP1ihUfEwOUY1WLpL54uCVGrnvw549ikGvRA7OmNHxDFO4cTipYNlnh4j6cg4W7uT39plqv7n8IDGmW7PGXhH8sd-74jdwbqdOPkg/s320/25.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 234px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Monte Cristi, the town where we stayed, is a beautiful little place on the north end of the island.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It’s natural exquisiteness led UNESCO to declare it one of the World Heritage Sites.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKge72Kvl8FatNIETMNDhCG0-eTpIX4tOHbf407IDvbUbK5KY1hZMXqDCBCKL_A1xukG2nqeb-gvRL7JK_uzwqmKx1sQ73yAHpifB5Zv1o-YCr-vW43t5pntvUu0KVPZsF_HG75xp27AU/s1600/26.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499408738597444146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKge72Kvl8FatNIETMNDhCG0-eTpIX4tOHbf407IDvbUbK5KY1hZMXqDCBCKL_A1xukG2nqeb-gvRL7JK_uzwqmKx1sQ73yAHpifB5Zv1o-YCr-vW43t5pntvUu0KVPZsF_HG75xp27AU/s320/26.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The Dominican Republic was the site of the first European settlement in 1492 when set up camp in Santo Domingo, the city where Columbus was later buried. </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Led by a husband and wife team of chiefs, the native Tainos successfully resisted Spanish rule until forces of European diseases, against which the natives had no shield, joined sides with the Spanish battalions.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">After Spanish, came French governance in 1795 when the island consisted of 90% African slaves.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">As you can imagine, with such a legacy, a rich heritage of diversity, struggle and courage belongs to the Dominican people.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">If you would like to hear the incredible story of their final fight for independence and the noble lives of three amazing sisters</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJksJ9A8N-VFWuKzrDoS6L6TFZjzUNPe65tQYryoAyZpFy_FX6801T0yhMpQARFVeY4lpWanADb1yrFIH-e5ZewgOSFZEwq2t0tyu-QOv2f8aHR0vBAjzkjrKBcJeB7_0jG_zADzxBrY/s1600/27.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499409445977331458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJksJ9A8N-VFWuKzrDoS6L6TFZjzUNPe65tQYryoAyZpFy_FX6801T0yhMpQARFVeY4lpWanADb1yrFIH-e5ZewgOSFZEwq2t0tyu-QOv2f8aHR0vBAjzkjrKBcJeB7_0jG_zADzxBrY/s320/27.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 242px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">who took a stand against the dictator, we highly recommend “The Time of the Butterflies” either book or video.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Nowadays The Dominican Republic is 73% multiracial, 16% European decent, and 11% African Decent.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nNXr1X8wQ9PJVvpUBDUK1X74jxAyHCfmxuZWGerXkzrWYDMnl4hxglzPxfLjv3lStHccDrKGa70iPNyzmXD73lNpINlYbNKLmwPbmqUlVgZ-7VAIkygKsWnd1S-h_y2AsRgY-aHCats/s1600/28.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499408741941802370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nNXr1X8wQ9PJVvpUBDUK1X74jxAyHCfmxuZWGerXkzrWYDMnl4hxglzPxfLjv3lStHccDrKGa70iPNyzmXD73lNpINlYbNKLmwPbmqUlVgZ-7VAIkygKsWnd1S-h_y2AsRgY-aHCats/s320/28.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">In rural areas, 50% of the population lives in extreme poverty and illiteracy is at 16%.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Its communities suffer badly from racial prejudice.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Nonetheless, Dominicans are not lacking in the arts of living!</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFSYu-V1Z81UEOXUWpTKjf4bhK3cWnl5bW1WJzMpQSNdmj61F2uVl720YW0clNj13LpyHocce0MGsH7HMe5O1CbMA4vhRAQr84ku43XzdexTbTS-LqWkt6w5id3ur0p2MVqN9Ri7qUBk/s1600/29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499408752930033490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYFSYu-V1Z81UEOXUWpTKjf4bhK3cWnl5bW1WJzMpQSNdmj61F2uVl720YW0clNj13LpyHocce0MGsH7HMe5O1CbMA4vhRAQr84ku43XzdexTbTS-LqWkt6w5id3ur0p2MVqN9Ri7qUBk/s320/29.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 126px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Christina</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We feel that music education would address many needs of the Dominican people.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Participation in music instills a sense of purpose and self esteem in an individual and these are vital to the creativity, courage and initiative required in the next generation if progress will occur.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">170,000 children are orphaned in the country and we feel that music can help these children to process and heal from such traumatic experiences and others as well.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_DueyX0n6BnWD9KYT4fL1pvPXwNDRnc9AGNfjxbVAbW_kvqH5UYf-mwNETYDmwilMNUp-hFQ2T9DBQZ-5aMENFplWetIG4k4caghjaPINq4Dp9qhaIMifUilFd0RQaR2mAAZvx_WI28/s1600/30.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499408756536544834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_DueyX0n6BnWD9KYT4fL1pvPXwNDRnc9AGNfjxbVAbW_kvqH5UYf-mwNETYDmwilMNUp-hFQ2T9DBQZ-5aMENFplWetIG4k4caghjaPINq4Dp9qhaIMifUilFd0RQaR2mAAZvx_WI28/s320/30.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Back to Team HERO</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Thursday May 13</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We knew by then end of the week we provably wouldn’t be teaching them substitute dominants or solfeging Coltrane, but we did know this:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">If we could give them the gift of inspiration it would burn within them for the rest of their lives;</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Kindling for their dreams and hope for the difficult.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Sometimes, it takes a lot to get through to a college kid, and for us it took a week of trial and error.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Finally, however, we were able to develop a lesson plan to meet the kids where they were at.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGC5v1Qf7GgsEbhkFqQNIFIPo5jQVd1UwD7NIn7GUWXJiQKKhNm0JdIBqUdSTS72G_Soi62JZnwpU0OxPxQr5W8vszrwmRJcubVwTv9wms0jDieKwcSwsdxhdnvnTe9n-zs07l646Ayc/s1600/31.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499408764492273410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGC5v1Qf7GgsEbhkFqQNIFIPo5jQVd1UwD7NIn7GUWXJiQKKhNm0JdIBqUdSTS72G_Soi62JZnwpU0OxPxQr5W8vszrwmRJcubVwTv9wms0jDieKwcSwsdxhdnvnTe9n-zs07l646Ayc/s320/31.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Our last day teaching, we allowed the students to pick the instruments they were most interested in (percussion, guitar, voice) and engage in semi-private lessons.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We then reviewed the songs they’d learned throughout the week as well as read through the notes of things they wanted to be when they grew up.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjbsMb_OdRRK3G3UB6Crwt7vFMxFnhC4StHR8qGqbzg6n4TVyI4Yc8ssbANMyYuPTp161KZozB6NnVwqDyWfpQVhpbikvPARKbe-4d5-XTNSfckYlufzaDX040W09ED4g9QLIbNfGuuE/s1600/32.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499411367942055026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjbsMb_OdRRK3G3UB6Crwt7vFMxFnhC4StHR8qGqbzg6n4TVyI4Yc8ssbANMyYuPTp161KZozB6NnVwqDyWfpQVhpbikvPARKbe-4d5-XTNSfckYlufzaDX040W09ED4g9QLIbNfGuuE/s320/32.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We told them that they were indeed capable of achieving their dreams, and making a difference in this world.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It was a sad thing to leave the school that day.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Apparently we weren’t alone in that either, as one of the biggest troublemakers sent us off with a teary farewell.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The beautiful faces of those rambunctious spirits will be alive in our minds and hearts for many years to come and we are confident that they hold in their hand the potential for a better tomorrow.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Our last activity in Monte Cristi was a trip inside a travel advertisment, or so it seemed as we gingerly put the first footprints on the pristine beach a short drive from the Orphanage.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJtl05Iu1ZzCUi5i8lBHUwB0ljIFLTzrItfQJFDwW-KLTnamsVOH-m4TWH4aJpdEHIYMVO3mUVJeoXCVNnOh_9SOOE22pYuG7DwbpzJJxSnE3VGOYNn-bZAFzgs_zCiMgtfPH9KANeI3g/s1600/29926_1303790075207_1244130139_30732640_5634519_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498392326055789362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJtl05Iu1ZzCUi5i8lBHUwB0ljIFLTzrItfQJFDwW-KLTnamsVOH-m4TWH4aJpdEHIYMVO3mUVJeoXCVNnOh_9SOOE22pYuG7DwbpzJJxSnE3VGOYNn-bZAFzgs_zCiMgtfPH9KANeI3g/s320/29926_1303790075207_1244130139_30732640_5634519_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">In one way or another, I suppose we all stepped off the plane in BOS a little different than we stepped on it, and it was deeper than the sunburn too.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjiUOnq2X8EBvbem7rV7-OrFT7J9e5oKT-6ItmZ8SfgU0NThmoSOkd0GM7LAqTp2X-FwuvNxEdxsiDsK36J0_Uq7mvtPQ96PLBVKE8WLxVl4VRoljDu6s9ho7ak0IKYi18gQttLJrk1xc/s1600/34.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499411382075936690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjiUOnq2X8EBvbem7rV7-OrFT7J9e5oKT-6ItmZ8SfgU0NThmoSOkd0GM7LAqTp2X-FwuvNxEdxsiDsK36J0_Uq7mvtPQ96PLBVKE8WLxVl4VRoljDu6s9ho7ak0IKYi18gQttLJrk1xc/s320/34.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 279px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Christina</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhjXLl9RPcfiAwAjT3akb9IPrI8DTljewaec3zCfUrdXrHt2lraAJ0kEDYybMikp4UCfwaG07RwMJVnkxgXbHbdwvupQBYB31oXulT7veETfuWNZ_pMT5mt5V8bWftgK_HEVcDzSGjIZU/s1600/35.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499411391242238114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhjXLl9RPcfiAwAjT3akb9IPrI8DTljewaec3zCfUrdXrHt2lraAJ0kEDYybMikp4UCfwaG07RwMJVnkxgXbHbdwvupQBYB31oXulT7veETfuWNZ_pMT5mt5V8bWftgK_HEVcDzSGjIZU/s320/35.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 169px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Josh</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkM5paSlPfX_Jr_6QoSrlS-wWtZuRcRJdO8D1Tel3x_8yEre5QqmUJelkcMgqqVNHu-Kc-6LTEty1uuRr7OuwTMRCbXqC1fE52bGecCEVty5r78YFl3edCsxzQIRep6VTjEKXTMkUB0o/s1600/36.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499411394173388578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkM5paSlPfX_Jr_6QoSrlS-wWtZuRcRJdO8D1Tel3x_8yEre5QqmUJelkcMgqqVNHu-Kc-6LTEty1uuRr7OuwTMRCbXqC1fE52bGecCEVty5r78YFl3edCsxzQIRep6VTjEKXTMkUB0o/s320/36.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 214px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">~Hannah</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaPbbgYIRoN1FEj3N5ietCLgWRP1_hTWMguR-ZtYE5BLMrqEQk4-Bb74EoPptDZ_tGWcMWEmoxm1HQcz88_LpbsYu-SEOPBMKjeiaVJwCJprBP-K6BYkXs4ADx8HhrEMHPgEqCHgirho0/s1600/37.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499412861945596210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaPbbgYIRoN1FEj3N5ietCLgWRP1_hTWMguR-ZtYE5BLMrqEQk4-Bb74EoPptDZ_tGWcMWEmoxm1HQcz88_LpbsYu-SEOPBMKjeiaVJwCJprBP-K6BYkXs4ADx8HhrEMHPgEqCHgirho0/s320/37.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 134px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrkM5paSlPfX_Jr_6QoSrlS-wWtZuRcRJdO8D1Tel3x_8yEre5QqmUJelkcMgqqVNHu-Kc-6LTEty1uuRr7OuwTMRCbXqC1fE52bGecCEVty5r78YFl3edCsxzQIRep6VTjEKXTMkUB0o/s1600/36.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">may seem extraordinary, but we want to let you in on a secret…since you’ve made it all the way to the end of this enormous blog </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">J</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Team HERO actually consists of 6 very ordinary people, just like yourself, from all kinds of backgrounds and belifes, bound together by the power of music and the simple sweetness of a shared vision.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Team HERO would never have been able to journey south if it had not been for the dozens of students, friends and family that supported us.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">They made a difference.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">We made a difference.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">You too are making a difference…what kind of difference will it be?</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></o:p></span></div></span><br />
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