Cathedral School Puerto Rico 2025
April 11, 2025
Our day started with our arrival at the Miami airport, followed by a connecting flight to San Juan. When we touched down, our Global Works instructors Lauren and Claudia greeted us and informed us of the day ahead. As we were super tired, we did not do any work. We hopped into vans and were transported to the Big Yellow House, where we would be staying for the next week. After we got settled in, we played in the large backyard where there was a volleyball net, a basketball hoop, and a meadow that we adopted into a soccer field. Around 5:00 PM, we walked to a nearby beach. We played in the ocean, rested in the sands, and played with some of the locals. After about an hour, we returned to the Big Yellow House. We then had a delicious dinner of chicken, potatoes, and salad. After that we cleaned up, journaled, and turned in for the night.
By Sammy & Thomas
April 12, 2025
Today we had an early morning that started off with a wonderful breakfast. The breakfast consisted of eggs, sausage, fruit, and some delicious French toast. Once we had wrapped up breakfast we packed our bags and took around an hour bus ride to old San Juan. There, in the beautiful city, we had a historical walking tour getting to see the city’s fortifications. The tour took the morning before we headed to one of the local Puerto Rican restaurants where we got to choose our meals. Either eating chicken, pork, beef, or mofongo (a plantain bases dish) with a side of rice or plantains.
After we ate our lunch we were granted with around 45 minutes to shop around the San Juan area searching for souvenirs. Following the shopping, as a group we all got ice cream and boarded the bus again. Back to the Big Yellow House where we are staying we sat around and played cards as we waited for the dumping rain to subside. After the rain cleared up we were finally able to walk to the beach and have a incredible time in the cool water. Then we headed back had a quick pasta dinner followed by a interesting documentary on the history of Puerto Rico. Then we did our daily journals, brushed our teeth, and all hopped in our beds to settle down and go to sleep.
By Henry and Spencer
April 13, 2025
Today we woke up to a great breakfast of eggs and pancakes. The morning was very sunny but humid which was very nice. Around 9am we drove 20 minutes to villa del rio, a town that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria. We worked today with rebar and made beams that support to roof with Willie, Angel, and Eggy who live in the community. By mid afternoon we went to Angel’s house where his wife, Maria, fed us a scrumptious lunch of rice and chicken stew. After lunch we returned to work. We built more beams and finished by making a much bigger beam. We finished work and headed back to the big yellow house. Everyone was stinky and sweaty so we headed to the beach. At the beach it was incredibly crowded so we walked to try and find an available space for our big group. Once we arrived we began swimming and passing the volleyball it the warm water of the Caribbean. There were many cool and diverse fish in the rocks and caves in the water. Not only was it warm and sunny but it began to rain while we were in the ocean. We returned home and saw our Jacob who had arrived at the big yellow house. We greeted him and prepared for dinner. Dinner was also rice and chicken but the chicken was grilled tonight. Overall it was a great and rigorous day of work and we can not wait for what’s in store tomorrow.
By Crawford and Griffin
April 14, 2025
Today the boys woke up at 7:30 to get ready for the rigorous work ahead of us. They quickly jumped out of bed and ate a delicious breakfast. It featured meals like French toast, eggs, Go Gurt, and ham, It was delicious. Then we hopped in the vans and head to the work site. We’ve made a lot of progress since yesterday. We got the roof beams on and we’ve done so much more. Although the work was quite rigorous, it was still tons of fun. Also, we encountered a dog by the name of Willy. He was one of the cutest dogs we’ve ever seen. We also enjoyed our delicious lunch of spaghetti and meatballs that hit the spot after a long morning of work. We did such a good job that we were able to finish a little bit earlier than expected and able to head on back and go to the beach. The beach was most wonderful as the weather was stupendous for swimming and relaxing. We spent a good amount of time there till we moved on over back to the Big Yellow House. Once we got back we enjoyed a bit of relaxing and playing basketball.
It was one of our classmates’ birthday, our very own Finn! One of our old classmates named Ben R. brought sweet treats to celebrate Finn’s birthday that were Puerto Rican. We also enjoyed our salsa dancing class. It was very fun and we all had a great time that was the end of our day.
By Mason and Weston
