I was fortunate enough to spend my Saturday in the Dental
Clinic, as we have a volunteer that has taken over the work in the
Pharmacy. I worked with quite a few of
the docs this week. Dr. Gerry, the lead
dentist, who I had worked with before, was just over seeing everything. We had 2 visiting Dentists, one of which was
a Pediatric Dentist (which was perfect for the mustard seed kids). So I spent the morning working with Clari the
Dominican Dentist, and then helped to keep the Mustard Seed crew calm while Dr.
Juan Carlos worked on their teeth.
WOW! Sure is hard to reason with
a child with disabilities that doesn’t speak your language. But just goes to show that a smile and soft
touch can go a long ways! Every one of
the patients were so thankful for the work we did. Sure is rewarding to give such a small thing
for such tremendous appreciation.
During
my lunch break, Cole a good friend of Chuck’s that I’ve gotten to know as he
comes to MJ quite often, asked me to represent his company at a Bizarre next Saturday
in Cabarette. Cole has started a company
called Cambio, which is change in espanol.
He has hired families that live in the dump to make a line of leather
products such as bracelets, iPhone cases, wallets, wristlet purses, etc. The products are amazing, and the
organization behind it just as great!
Anyway, I have sold quite a few of the products here at MJ, so Cole
asked me to sit at the Cambio table in Cabarette at the Bizarre on Saturday,
sounds like it is similar to an art show.
So I’m looking forward to that!
It will give me a chance to meet more people in the area, and also
practice my Spanish!
Saturday
afternoon after work, Chuck had a talk with me about a new possibility for
MJ. He has toyed with the idea of adding
horseback riding to the MJ experience for quite some time, and heard that I
grew up riding horses. Chuck asked if I
would be interested in helping to lead the horseback riding tours. Of course this is something I’d love to do! Spend my days riding through the mountains of
the Dominican Republic?? How could you
turn that down! Chuck and I spoke with
some of the locals and are hoping that we can pay them to use their horses for
a while. They will bring their horses to
the Jungle in the morning, and we’ll use them for trail rides around the
farm. Then at the end of the day we’ll
pay the owners for their use. I love the
way Chuck tries to help the people that live in this area with this type of
arrangements. He often does things in
this way to help benefit not only his attraction, but the people in the area as
well!
Saturday
night, we went into Cabarette. It was
Kori, Denson (Eddy Murphy) and Me. We
met up with Stephan (Wesley Snipes) and 2 girls we had met that had been to MJ
that week. We went to our regular place;
Kahuna’s and had a few drinks on the beach.
Found out when we got there that they were having “Oil Wrestling”. Yes this is just what you’d think it is. Girls half naked in a blow up swimming pool
covered in oil, wrestling. I was less
than thrilled, but the guys sure enjoyed it.
After the wrestling match, we went to Onno, the popular dance club. Danced a little bit, this of course makes you
sweaty. So I decided it would be great
to jump in the ocean before we went home.
Well, the swimming in our clothes was fun, but the cab ride home covered
in sand in a wet dress, wasn’t so much fun!!
Over all though it was a great evening out!
