Best Laid Plans

As you may recall, we were told yesterday that we wouldn´t have access to the school in the mornings next week. So, we´ve decided to hold camp in the afternoon, from 2 to 5, the first week and then go back to the original morning plan for the second week of the camp. It turns out that will work out just fine for all of the campers. This could´ve been anticipated by someone wiser than myself. No one bothered to check if the school would be available knowing that if it wasn´t, we would just adjust the plans and everyone would be flexible enough to make it work.

It´s all about the Dominican state of mind: Don´t worry about things too much cause it´ll all tend  to work out in the end. For an eternal planner and worrier like myself, it has always been difficult for me to adopt this state of mind. But if I could, I think I would have a lot less stress in my life, no? I´ve always envied this very Dominican state of mind.

Boxes of Materials

By the way, here´s a picture of all the boxes we sent down for the camp and for the school. The larger ones are filled with supplies. The smaller ones are filled with bilingual books that Brookline donated for our project. We´ll use them in the camp, give some to the campers and then donate the rest to the school.

Grano a grano se llena la gallina al buche. This is one of my favorite Dominican proverbs and the first that I learned during my first visit with my then fiance Tanya 16 years ago.Literally, it means, ¨grain by grain, the hen´s beak will be filled.¨ Sounds better in Spanish right? To me, it means that even though those grains that the hen is eating are tiny, eventually the hen will be full. These boxes might not seem like much, but little by little...