The first day of 11th grade might seem a little anti-climactic after going to college. Unless you're Emily and starting at a new school for the first time in your school career and it's in a foreign country. Luckily and blessedly it is a bilingual school that is taught primarily in English. Hooray for the best of both worlds.
Max begins the second half of 8th grade not ever having completed the first half.
"What in the world are we doing" you might ask...
Doulos Discovery School is an amazing place where one-half of the students are on scholarship. Doulos is a US non-profit and all of the teachers and staff from North America raise their own salaries in the form of support. Giving the poorest students in Jarabacoa the ability to receive a private, Christian education would be fantastic enough. But there's more! Classes are taught in English, so all of the students become bilingual. 95% of the students are Dominican and the school's mission is to educate and equip their students so they can impact the DR. What a great thing! AND it's an Expeditionary learning school, which is an exciting way to learn. If you want to know more about all of this, check out their website here.
We're privileged to able to serve here this semester and work alongside the amazing staff. What a great group of young, smart, and enthusiastic people who love Jesus and followed the call to the DR.
So Emily will finish the11th grade and Max will join the 8th grade class (or possibly the 9th grade class because of his math level) and then who knows where they'll go from there? Only God knows for sure.
By the way, the high school students start school at 7am!!!
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