Sharing Blessings and Love from God

Three years ago, coming tired and hungry from a long hike, we stopped at a very humble house.

An old women came outside of the door and received us as her family. In about twenty minutes she prepared food that would probably be for her and her family for a week, but with a heart full of love and joy she satisfied our hunger.

That made such a big impact on us, but we found ourselves unable to do anything.

This week we saw the oportunity to be a blessing to this amazing women.

Bringing stuff from our homes, we collected food, clothes, cooking and eating utensils, toiletries and some other personal things.

Finally, June 10, we departed from the school in two trucks ready to start this search in the mountains, in a four hour trip that took us to Lorenza's house.

Being at Lorenza's house, we felt this amazing joy of being able to put these big smiles of happiness on all the members of her family. We prayed for her and started our trip back to school.

With changed hearts and a big satisfaction we can see that EVERYONE is able to share, blessings, happiness, love, and joy from our Lord.
We know this is just the start of a big change coming for us.

World Revolutionary Leaders

This year we learned about revolutionary leaders, we learned about Hitler, Trujillo, Joan of Arc... We took a long time figuring out the characteristics of being a revolutionary leader. We created a webpage to explain our own characteristics of Revolutionary Leaders, and we wrote some essays about some Rev. Leaders who made a huge impact.

You can click on the link on the right, and visit our webpage. Hope you enjoy it and can appreciate our hard work. This is all we learned about Revolutionary Leaders.

My experience as a new student

My name is Rogelio Genao, and this was my first year as a Doulos student. Although I came halfway through the year, my experiences at Doulos were amazing. I had just come from the U.S., so I thought it would be hard for me to fit in with the people and teachers, but that wasn't the case. I came and got along with everyone and had no problems. Since day one they made me feel welcome and treated me with respect, and that really stood out to me. As the year is ending, I have realized the special year God gave me with all my friends and also teachers like Miss Sara which is a great teacher that really showed me allot of new things and how she made me feel welcome, and I think all the other teachers were great just like her. The thing about Doulos that is different from other schools is how we learn so much in the classroom but also get to go on trips and work in the workshop and just have fun. For all the new students or others who want to come to Doulos but have some doubts, I'm here to tell you, "Don't waste your time, and come here to Doulos and I'll guarantee you that you wont regret it and that you will have fun at everything you do including in your classes. Being a student here has made me realize how it is important to share and be a good friend.

Update on hydro plant project

This is an old ninth grader speaking; now I’m a tenth grader. I went in the project to Chad’s farm to try to build the hydro plant and I will tell you, in the name of my class, the results of that project. This year’s tenth grade was the class who went and tried to build the plant, but unfortunately we didn’t get to finish it. We were planning to us the community’s water pipes that go through Chad’s farm and whose source is a spring inside Chad’s farm to give the plant power that would be used by his workers for the coffee plant and other things. The community came and talked to our class, Chad and our teacher, Sara Espinoza. We, the students, explained that even if the water touched the turbine of the plant, the turbine wouldn’t rust and the water would stay clean. They listened very carefully and decided they were going to do a board meeting in the community main hall with the main leaders of the place. They went and, around two hours later, the main representative of the leaders of the place, called Mr. Grifo, came to us with a letter that mainly said that they didn’t want to risk the health of the community by letting us use the water because the rust of the plant would get in the water and if anybody drank it, he/she would get sick and that they didn’t want anything like that to happen. They also didn’t have the money to treat themselves if they got sick. Chad accepted without any complaints and the next day allowed us, the tenth graders and our teacher, to leave his farm and go back to civilization. We were glad we were going back home but we wanted to finish the project. We were disappointed that we didn’t, but hey, that’s life. That’s just another of the memories we have from that and past years at Doulos. Now, everyone just remembers and laughs.