November of my Sophomore year (2019), I traveled with a group through Watkinson on a service trip with other high school students, doctors, and teachers to La Romana. We set up a traveling med clinic at different locations every day and built hurricane-proof houses in the bateys (sugarcane work camps). I was also lucky enough to be one of the few students who worked alongside teachers at the Joe Hartman School for a day. Today, I contemplate the implications that service trips carry. I have spent the last few months discussing white savior complexes with my peers and debating the connotations surrounding my trip to the Dominican Republic. While I don't have an answer as to whether the trip was rooted in American exceptionalism and Eurocentrism, I know that I was able to generate deep connections with others and learn more about myself and the world around me.