Quick Update Before Leaving Boqueron:

Thursday was the closing ceremony for our homestay experience; it was a bittersweet celebration of our week. The students, with the assistance of their homestay families, prepared traditional Puerto Rican dishes to share with the group...delicious chicken stews, plantain packages and wonderful deserts. After our meal the students shared their appreciation for their host families through poems, pictures and an incredible rap put together by DJs Carlos, V and Slippery Jack. We finished off the evening with a p-cord ceremony (p-cord is a type of skinny rope that we use for bracelets/anklets), giving everyone a tangible piece of the experience to take with them.

As leaders, we've been thrilled to see how easily and well this big group has bonded. The willingness of the Windsor Mountain students to open their group up to the Boqueron students says alot about them individually and as a group, as does the ease with which the Boqueron students joined us. It will be sad to say goodbye to these teenagers, many of them are talking about joining a WMST program next year, an we saw many email addresses and facebook names traded.

From here we are moving on to Aguadilla, where we will begin our surfing lessons with the famous Tupi. We are excited to see more of this wonderful place we're in and work on catching some huuuuuuuge waves!!

Also check out the new pictures we sent in....

-Cat, Tony, and the BPR group