C2017: Día 9

Today was a cool day. It needs a bit of background information to explain. Fifteen years ago a high school student named Jake Kheel, came to the DR as part of an exchange program with Northfield Mount Herman. Jake stayed with the Familia Montás during his visit and has stayed in touch with the family since then. Jake went back to the states to go to college and graduate school and then returned to the DR to live. He started a Foundation to support the ecology of the country and is involved in multiple environmental projects here. One of which is a documentary called "Death by a Thousand Cuts" he made about the charcoal industry and the deforestation of both the DR and Haiti. Tanya, Kelli, and I saw the film at a festival in Lowell and Samuel was able to get the movie for the camp. So we took the campers into San Cristobal to see the movie and then Jake stopped by for a question and answer session with the campers. The campers were entranced with the movie and asked great questions of Jake. I told you it was a cool day right?

On a side note, The movie was supposed to be shown at 9:30 and it didn't start until 10:15 because the school where we got the movie shown wanted to bring some of its students as well and they didn't get out of class until 10:00. The old gringo me would've thought, "how hard would it have been to tell us that in advance so we aren't waiting for an hour." But, as I've evolved of late, that thought didn't cross my mind at all.