Views From Cabarete

Thursday, February 15, 2007

I Guess We´ll Table That One For Now

When I went to carnival, my camera´s batteries died and thus, I have no pictures. Two other people did take many pictures, luckily, but I haven´t been able to get them yet. Rest assured, I´ll fill you in on that trip at some point.

In the meantime, I´ll tell you about something school related. We have a joint youth group going with some of our students and some of the students at the other public school in town. The group is made up of anyone who is interested and at least 13 years old (roughly). We meet twice a week and have done various things so far, such as an English workshop and games like tug-of-war.

Last week we tried to do something more ambitious than normal, and had a volleyball tournament on the beach. We had 12 teams of three, divided into a boys bracket and a girls bracket. There was the usual chaos one would expect, but overall it was a success. We even got one of the restaurants on the beach to donate a dinner to the six winners. Here´s a group shot from one of our meetings, as well as some pics from the volleyball tore-nament (it´s fun to say it like Daniel LaRusso isn´t it?):











5 Comments:

At February 15, 2007 10:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good work Johnny. Keep up the fun activities and you'll probably be getting all kinds of kids involved. Do you have any lawn darts? They're always popular.

 
At February 18, 2007 11:42 PM, Blogger Chad said...

I would definitely have to agree ~ lawn darts make for many a birthday blast. We had them in Fircrest for pool parties, along with disc golf around the apple trees. Glad to see you're enjoying some beachtime. Here in VT we are currently buried in over 2 feet of fresh powder from the other days snow storm. Cheerio matey!

 
At February 19, 2007 12:41 PM, Blogger John Harkins said...

Chad, I remmeber all those days in your back yard well. I heard about all that snow up in the NE. Glad I'm here and not there.

 
At February 22, 2007 9:11 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Have you tried the nutty-tappy game? That's always a fan favorite.

 
At March 01, 2007 3:42 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi John, Your dad helped me to figure out how to comment. I am slow. I love your blog. It is so fun to see how and what you are doing. The kids are so cute! Good Job! Want to do any long weekend stints of childcare when you get back? You could make a small fortune off of all of those desperate parents who just have to get away!
Love, Shannon

 

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