the 5th graders traveled to a batey, a community of haitian immigrant workers living on a sugar cane plantation. john and i went with them and were there the wednesday and thursday he was visiting. john last semester did a lot of research about life in the batey for a paper he wrote. there is a lot more to the story behind the lives of these people and where and how they live. i'm not going to begin to try and explain everything i felt and experienced there. instead i'll let these photographs tell the story.
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john wrote a little about the history of the batey in a post "thoughts on my trip to the D.R." on his house blog, Adventures of the Willard House, if you want to know more.
ReplyDeletep.s. if you want to see what john wrote you can copy and paste this link http://willardhouse.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeletestef! i looove these pics. :-)
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