The Dominican. It can be a sunny, cool and relaxing place. That’s usually 50% of the time, and the other 50 is a full downpour that can last there for about a month or two. As Some of you might know I sometimes have a yearly trip to the Dominican to build houses for the poor. This all happens with a group of 20-25 people from spruce land millworks, the company my mom works for. I have been there multiple times to help but this year was something that I have never experienced before
This was my fourth time being to the Dominican republic and all I saw there for 2 weeks was rain. there was the occasional sunny day but then at night all you could here was rain and If you didn't see it you would most definitely hear it. Every night it sounded like wind making the trees sway back and forth but the moment you peeked outside it would just be pouring rain. it would rain so much that it would flood some of the pathways. the grass became so soaked in water it could not be able to soak up the water fast enough so it would just leave a pool of water sitting there. The next few mornings were wet and humid but we still managed to go to work in the village that spruce land had funded for many years. I had been to this village before when people were just beginning to build houses for …show more content…
Down stories, in the bottom of the valley, it was more mud than ever because of all the rain that had flowed down from the steep inclines it had just sat at the bottom. We had a plan to tie a rope to a tree and chuck it over the house so that we would not fall off the house when we were putting the tin on it. Through the process of doing so we had one person fall off, luckily he landed on his feet. That hole da was just an absolute mess but thankfully it was the last day
This was my fourth time being to the Dominican republic and all I saw there for 2 weeks was rain. there was the occasional sunny day but then at night all you could here was rain and If you didn't see it you would most definitely hear it. Every night it sounded like wind making the trees sway back and forth but the moment you peeked outside it would just be pouring rain. it would rain so much that it would flood some of the pathways. the grass became so soaked in water it could not be able to soak up the water fast enough so it would just leave a pool of water sitting there. The next few mornings were wet and humid but we still managed to go to work in the village that spruce land had funded for many years. I had been to this village before when people were just beginning to build houses for …show more content…
Down stories, in the bottom of the valley, it was more mud than ever because of all the rain that had flowed down from the steep inclines it had just sat at the bottom. We had a plan to tie a rope to a tree and chuck it over the house so that we would not fall off the house when we were putting the tin on it. Through the process of doing so we had one person fall off, luckily he landed on his feet. That hole da was just an absolute mess but thankfully it was the last day