These girls did not know how to play volleyball at the beginning of the week, but through perseverance, patience and determination, these girls were able to capture the concept of volleyball in a couple of days and be able to participate in a game of their own, with the help of the team in coaching. The team scrimmaged a couple practice games with the girls, showed them some drills, including teaching them how to play leap frog and them put teams together to teach them the different volleyball positions, which two of the three were of setting and passing.
I was able to get some great photos of fellow interns and continue in my practice in photography. Pictured below, I was able to capture a bonding moment between Abby, talked about in my previous post, with an outgoing, big brother-like, staff member, named Enyor (or in English, "Angel.") This was taken on the first day while we were at VBS in The Brisas, which is about a 10-15 minute drive from Santiago. They had a running joke that they were brother and sister since they look so similar. But I was able to catch this moment and treasure how well it looks, not including the feeling of knowing that neither Abby nor Enyor will ever forget their time spent together.
This photo was a complete candid moment that I am so happy to have caught. Enyor was throwing the volleyball at the net, playing around in joking that he was going to hit me with the ball, but instead, I snapped a couple pictures of him. This photo could not have been any better. What was supposed to be funny became a moment of awe at how well a camera can capture a moment.
I was able to put the camera down a couple times this week and got the chance to help out with a couple drill, passing the volleyball to the girls and them having to hit it in a circle maybe five feet in diameter about 6-8 feet away from them. Pictured is both a staged photo of me, but also a candid photo of one of the local, professional superstars, now one of the G.O. coaches, passing a volleyball to me seconds before I passed the ball back to Enyor, who is not pictured.
In one of the evening sessions of volleyball camp, Enyor grabbed the camera to take a couple selfies. I decided to photo-bomb the picture, but it shows how close we were able to connect in a matter of a couple of days. His personality is pictured perfectly in this photo as well: always smiling, encouraging others and making your day. He has been such an awesome friend this week and I only hope we can stay just as good friends when I get back to the States.
This last photo is of all the G.O. interns of 2015. The second wave of interns got here last Thursday and the intern leader, for lack of a better title, took us to 27 Waterfalls, since we were not able to go the first time we tried to go as a group. We were all able to connect, laugh, have fun and make memories even though we barely knew each other. I found out that two of the new interns actually go to college at the same college I go to, so I only hope we will be able to get together and connect on campus just as much as we will these last two weeks I am here.
Well, everyone, this is the end of week 4 and the beginning of week 5 for me. I only have two more weeks here in the DR, so I hope to make an impact down here and be able to continue to be an example of Christ for not only the groups coming down, but for the locals and staff members so they will get a sense of regeneration and be able to keep going in their race to share the gospel. Until the next appointed time!
God Bless
Leilani
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