Yasalenny

This year I moved from New York to the Dominican Republic for the first time. I had found out I was going to Doulos Discovery School which i was very excited about. My experiences at Doulos Discovery School were so amazing because I made lots of friends and everyone was friendly. I didn't expect this school to be like a family. Here we all work together, we help one another, and we always try to help others outside of school. This school is like a place where I feel free to learn, to talk, and to hang out with my friends. The teachers teach perfectly well, in a way where I understand everything. I will never forget Doulos because it has helped me with everything, and I have learned new things that I would never have learned in my hometown.


Written By: Yasalenny Peralta

Doulos Sports Center

This year, like all past years, the most played sport was soccer. The new adquisition, though, has been the girls soccer team and the 5th grade and smaller kids team. The coach, Jose Rodriguez, got some very good matches for all teams. The girls played Carol Morgan, ANIJA Educational Center, Jarabacoa Christian School, Santiago Cristian School and La Salle from Santiago as well. The big and mid-size teams played Rolando Bauger, SCS, ANIJA, Foster Home "El Arca" and La Salle from Santiago. The smallest kids played "Escuela Agrícola", Jarabacoa Christian School and ANIJA. The teams won many matches, tied some and lost few. All of us are proud of what we have accomplished in soccer. If a rival school ever reads this post, you are welcome to come play against us. Thank you for reading this, whoever does. This is DDS speaking, the invincible.

Pond

We started studying ecology is how thing work together in nature. So Miss Emily thought is was a good idea to make a pond which show how thing work in nature and a pond was perfect for it .We started studying pumps and the shape that we wanted it to be.We measured the pond and used a formula which can indicate how many gallons the pond will hold.

Chad helped us a lot. He made the hole where the pond was going to be.Then the Prince of Peace Lutherian Church from Minnesota came to help us with the project of building the pond. We started with the rocks and putting it in rows.We took the rocks from one place to the other and stacking it in the hole where the pond is going to be.


Although it only took about a month to finish with the pond, it took an large amount of hard work and also came out so beautiful. Everyone from 4th grade and 9th and others really worked hard an it really payed of. When we see the pond and the garden at Doulos, we are proud of our hard work, and we just go there once an a while and enjoy the fresh air and the beautiful view and just relax. We hope that everyone as new students or just visitors enjoy it as much as we do and take care of it.

Written by Roberto Valerio and Rogelio Genao

Proud

As the Math and guide teacher for the ninth and tenth grades, I get to spend devotions with this group every morning in addition to teaching their math classes. Last year was a rough year for our eighth grade class. . .a true challenge in learning how to balance budding independence and real responsibility. This year, God's work is evident in this ninth grade class. Our students from last year. . .Alex, Jatnna, Josue, Paola. . .are showing tremendous maturity, leadership, and a desire to improve and learn more. Our new students. . .Daniela, Johan, Roberto, Rolando, Yasa, and Ben. . .have been perfect complements, all with very different personalities, but all with gifts to share and a desire for excellence. It has been fun to see the dynamic that He has created, and the progress in each individual student. At such a difficult age, this group is showing progress beyond academics, in their initiative, compassion, respect for others, and personal ownership of their actions and decisions. It is a joy to teach them!

Sara Espinoza

Manabao, hydroelectric plant

Our ninth grade class is working on a project in Manabao, where we are working on building a hydroelectric plant. Chad Wallace has hired our class to build it for him in his farm. Our class has been preparing to build it since September, and we all thought it was a crazy idea to have a bunch of ninth graders install a hydroelectric plant, but Chad has faith in his students and he trusts us enough to build it for him. Our class is going up to Manabao this next week, and we are hoping for the best and everything will go smoothly.

I will post the results of our trip in a coup0le weeks to tell you all how it went.

Joshua

My name is Josiah Ballantine, I am in ninth grade at Doulos Discovery School. Just recently our English class read a book together, the name of it is Joshua. It is a wonderful book and I first of all just want to recommend you all to read it.

The book is about what Jesus would do if He was living here now. This book has challenged me very much, because Joshua is very disciplined in everything he does. No matter how little or big it is he does it with all his strength. This challenged me because I hadn't been trying in school at all but I know that if Jesus was here He would have A's and would be trying with all his strength. Even if grades don't really matter to you He wants us to be disciplined in our actions, and keep ourselves busy every day and make a purpose for our lives.