Shanghai...or Bonao?

In our "dessert talk" (sobremesa...que elocuente que en ingles no tengan una palabra para esa importantisima actividad...) Sofia talked about teacher James skipping classes...

It's like a customer going to La Taperia, paying for the food and not getting anything...only watching the TV! ("Sorry, Sir, we don't have food...but you can watch the TV!")

And on top of that, the consequences over time: students in Shanghai getting the best school training possible, studying many hours per week, or students in Bonao's public schools studying a few hours per week (some days) of poor training...what will happen once both are 21 years of age?? The same that will happen if I play tennis against Nadal...

What type of job and life opportunities will have the better prepared students?? And the ones from Bonao's public schools??

All that is worthwhile needs a constant effort on our part, my beloved Pichones. Years of effort. But JOYFUL effort, because we are aware that the effort is to be able to live a life with many more and more exciting opportunities, as Paola Santana, from Santo Domingo, can tell...

Paola in Linkedin
Matternet Vision
Matternet in Haiti !

TIA BEGOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Hoy 15 de mayo oimos el "Hoooolaaa" mas maravilloso de nuestras vidas: el Hola de la tia Bego, despues de su dura estadia en la UCI tras su neurocirugia...

Es una campeona. Estamos muy orgullosos y felices por ella. Esperamos que sigan esos avances agigantados que llevas...

Te queremos infinitoooooooo

OUR FIRST MARATHON TOGETHER!

Our medals testify for good that on May 5th we ran our first marathon together. We missed Sofia and Mom and look forward to run next year with them. We learnt to administer our energies, not to overrun at the beginning so we have energies left afterwards. We also learnt that it's better to finish last but with your own capabilities than first with somebody else's. And we also learnt to have fun, making fun of ourselves with our "zancadillas, rocio de agua, y lanzamiento de niño en cuerda".

Here we go to the Start Line, and the countdown!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ize07zJhHCY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Here the competitors: Danilo (3rd), Kevin (4th), Diego Rafael (2nd)


And here the best gesture of the day: my Pichon putting my medal in my tablenight. I love you, my sport -and life- companion.