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Travel Blogs from Barahona
Two Years Gone By
... vibrant -- Music, food, history, natural beauty. All of which I'm going to miss (well, the food I can take it or leave it to be honest). Even though technology is rapidly engulfing the Dominican Republic as it has already overtaken the states, there are parts that still are untouched and undeveloped, pure almost. The tranquility of a rolling stream, the sparkling rays of the sun beaming off of the sea, the lush, green trees that cover ...
The Final Countdown
... in August we were handed a checklist that we must fill out before they had us our plane ticket home. There are over 30 things that we must complete on that list including, but not limited to, exit interviews with Peace Corps staff, tons of medical exams (I had to carry 3 different stool samples through the capitol to the lab), language exams, and turning in documents that you have entirely forgotten about in the last two years. ...
A Waning Tide
... not to count the days.
GRINGO GRITA: is a Peace Corps DR magazine put out by volunteers for volunteers. This issue (there are 3 a year) I, along with my friend, Jeff, helped put together the COS (Close of Service) surveys that every volunteer that is leaving fills out. They are interviews of every volunteer answering questions and giving an inside look and even comical description of the last two years of service. For your ...
Busy in the Summertime
... you only see on the back of your computer screen. However, different is oh so good sometimes.
LUNGS & LETRINES: What a week! We had a group of Americans come in for an entire week of medical missions and letrine construction. The group had come last year for a one day medical mission in my site but this year we were constructing in Los Blancos, another volunteers site down the coast, and then medical missions in three ...
Building Dreams
... Pedro Sánchez, El Seibo. A young woman that has previously studied design is now providing the service of interior decorating. For example: curtains, bedspreads, table cloths, pillows, etc.
Third Place: New York Pizza in Sabana de la Mar, Hato Mayor. 2 young women proposed a small pizzeria in the middle of growing tourist town.
Comercial Category
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