We're home. I've sorted through the sand, rocks, pictures, maracas, flags, music, and everything else we brought back with us. What I haven't sorted through are the experiences. The wonderful experience of being in the place where my students come from and meeting the family of one of our students, that feeling will stay with me for a long time. I am eager to be back at school and see my Dominican students and to greet them with a new sense of their home. I am sorting through how I will apply my experiences to the classroom this fall. And I also have this lingering sense, that I didn't quite understand when I was there, of what it feels like to be the outsider, to not understand the language, the culture, the norms of life, and how uncomfortable that feeling is. When we left to come home I had this feeling that I was just beginning to scratch the surface of understanding this fascinating country and I wasn't ready to leave; yet, I was longing to be home.
Thanks to everyone who followed along with us on this journey.
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