DR day 4

Originally, today was planned to be out completely free day. However, plans changed. On day two, our clinic site got moved at the last moment. The people of the community we were supposed to go to were devastated and begged us to find a way to come to them, so this morning we sent a team of people who had the most experience and who spoke Spanish to do a half-day clinic. The other half of the group stayed behind at the monastery and inventoried all the remaining medical supplies and medicines. This trip is very well organized and planned out. Apparently we had over $60,000 in medicines to give out. Some of the supplies we donated to the Abad foundation, the local foundation we were working with.  Some we placed in a closet for a trip that’s coming in March. We ate lunch at the monastery and then we headed out to Santa Domingo.

            We didn’t get to the resort to 5:30, but the drive was so worth it. It was so beautiful. The resort was all-inclusive. We ate dinner in an open-air buffet 20 feet from the ocean. The restaurant was beautiful, so fancy. Then we went down to the ocean for a night swim. I had never done that before. I was a little nervous at first, but it was amazing. The stars were so clear; I even saw a shooting star. I went up to the room around 10 and took an amazing shower. It was such a beautiful and relaxing way to end a week of hard work. I fell sleep thinking that I had to be the happiest and most blessed person alive.