Apart-Hotel Plaza Colonial Santo Domingo

... at this very cute and lovely little boutique hotel, called Coco Boutique - and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone going to the city! There are only 4 rooms, each decorated with a different theme - and the common areas were very chic and comfortable...there is a small bar qhere guests can relax and chat in the evenings, complete with fantastic music. In the morning, there is a delicious breakfast included. The couple who own it are very young - she is from Greece ...

... ability - and more importantly the confidence - to speak, not just write.) Thursday night I had the chance to see Mark, one of the other volunteers who was living with Ileana when I was staying there. We went out to a very cool, arty bar/club in Santo Domingo that Antoine had been recommending to me since I got here. (You could tell it was a place that was a bit less Dominican because the volume of the music was approximately 2% lower than the music in colmados and ...

... groups to leave around 2pm and so we will have the morning free. This evening we have been having dinner with LDP, Leadership Development Students. I sat at a table with a young man who hopes to be an Accountant in a Bank when he finishes Uni. All of these students were sponsored children who had achieved the highest grade in High School ...

... is so cute and ya... very pretty. In the afternoon we visit different families. Families with horrible, unimaginable destinys...! A mother of 3 children... her husband were shooted! Without any reason.... A Mother with 10 kids.... the husband splitted... some of the children of her are ill... herself is ill...! We visit a teacher and around the house stand 3 boys... Juan tells us, that we have to hide our digicams.... after the visit we get in ...

Hi All! Just a quick post on what has been going on lately. I was able to go home in September for Sarah and Ivan's wedding, which was beautiful. I was so glad to be able to be there and enjoy the comforts of home (for a few days at least). I was also able to make some headway on the old grad school applications, so say your prayers to Dios that I get into a program!! Back on the ...

... split my time between the two schools, so I'm pretty busy all week, but it's good to be busy, I think. After these first three months of my diagnostic, we all go into the capital and present it to the rest of our education group and Peace Corps directors...in spanish...yeah, need to start practicing this presentation thing! Then I come back and either do a summer camp in my community or go help out with someone else's ...

... was in complete bliss. The only hard time was getting used to throwing used TP in the toillet again....I just kept wanted to through it in the trash can. My flight over to the states was horrible because I happened to get a really REALLY BAD case of Diarrea. So I was running to the bathroom all the time during the flight. I even had to request a wheelchair at the Maimi airport so that they could wheel me to ...

... gotten a lot of info, which helps to alleviate some of the nervous tensions about what is going to happen in the DR. We will be in two different locations in the DR for our training, some in the Santo Domingo area and then 4-5 weeks(out of the 11 total) will be spent in a different area doing more training with our specific group, so for me the Special Ed. people. I won't find out my site where I will be for ...

... Any news from the US why that may be. Any news on what is going on in the middle east. Please report to me this stuff. I´m so isolated from the world here, and I never hear of any world news!! Well, that´s all I have to say for now. I will be spending my next 5 to 6 weeks here before I head back to Santo Domingo. I don´t have internt in my village so I probably wont´be updating this page for a while, and I don´t know when will be the next time I will be back in the city.