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May 18 2026
If I’m really honest, I’m too exhausted to say much on this blog, so I’m giving you a photo blitz of the past five days. The GC website was uneditable for a while, so blog posts needed to take a break, which was ok. In these photos, you’ll see us participating in more school activities with kids, and our 3rd game against a Puerto Rican team, this one in Aibonito again under the lights. Many students also had the opportunity to spend time with a Puerto Rican host family over the weekend.
So much beauty all around us, and at the same time, students wrestle with a feeling of overwhelm, being distant from many of the things they are accustomed to. It’s an opportunity to learn how to adapt to newness and find a way forward. We also talked today about ways to return to an attitude of gratefulness and to embrace every moment of this unique opportunity.
This week, we had the opportunity to play the past two Puerto Rican national champions of the Single A baseball league, which has just over 80 teams covering 50 different municipalities around the island. The champions from the past two…
There is substantial evidence that exists demonstrating the benefits of outdoor physical activity on the human psyche and condition. We have witnessed ample evidence of that impact over the course of our first week in Puerto Rico, as almost everything…
Our first weekend in Puerto Rico included a heavy dose of the beauty of this place. We began the day on Saturday with a drive, then a hike into El Yunque, Puerto Rico’s famous mountainous rainforested national park, which includes…