Micro Hotel Suites & Condo Santo Domingo

... to the community members -Include other volunteers to translate Community Murals -Paint community murals that educate around the community -Receive financial support from the Plan International Art Department -Have an art competition to choose the community murals Youth Newspaper -The youth write a community newspaper with community information -Receive financial support from Plan ...

... be in a well-furnished apartment with meals cooked for me. There's a nice, air-conditioned mall right around the corner and a KFC, Pizza Hut and Dunkin Donuts nearby. However, in our relative luxury, the water and the power do go out frequently. The water was out all day Saturday and Sunday; it came on just long enough in the morning for me to grab a quick shower Sunday morning. Hot water simply doesn't exist. I haven't experienced any extended power ...

... she refused to saying she was waiting for me. Chi was oblivious to all of this and thought we were all on the bus and didn´t know what all the fuss was about. Our first part of this trip had been interesting because there was a huge argument about politics between a couple of guys which of course dragged in several others. I thought they were going to hit each other at one stage and they must have argued for 2 hours. I think everyone was glad when the bus broke down because it gave ...

... from our hotel. After the walk in the Colonial quarter, we drive to the more modern sections of the city. Some areas are quite depressed, but on the whole the areas we see are well maintained and somewhat modern. I think it is a prettier capital than in Costa Rica, for example, but they don't have the same classical flair for the National Theatre. It is a relatively plain modern building. The National Palace is in a neoclassical style, designed by ...

... very good time...;-). It starts raining and wow.... it's just perfect! Ya... I go to the restaurant to have dinner with the others. We have to pack our bags and check out in the lobby. For the last time I go down to the beach, fill some sand from the beach in a bottle and have the last minutes with Daniel... We have to say goodbye... we change our numbers and ya... hope to keep in touch. :)

Hola folks Some of you may be wondering why I haven´t written in a while and I am here to tell you that I have been B-U-S-Y! Yes, it only took me a year and a half, but I finally found people who actually wanted my help in this rustic town of Pimentel, Dominican Republic. I can´t say that the stress of finally being busy has been sweet and at times I have felt just downright frustrated. Here are some of the activities that I have been ...

... the beer bottle I had lost a hold of came flying after us followed by Mary´s keys which one of the thugs had snatched from my pocket. And while they made off with my camera and the $10 in pesos, they weren´t smart enough to look through that little pocket within the pocket on the right side of all jeans, where I had stashed 1500 pesos. Although I lost the camera it was only the pictures it contained that bothered me. Mary and I were ...

... in the colmado at gun point asking for a bottle of rum, then (this is just chisme) he also held a little kid at gun point. While this was going on, a police truck was on its way and they ended up arresting the guy. The police even asked me if I wanted to go with them to the jail, but I nicely declined, the last thing I was to see is how a jail in the country looks like. So yesterday was a pretty scary day. I was pretty freaked out when I saw that guy ...

... collect my phone and head back to Pimentel to see my sweetie and tell him all the horrible things that had happened to me so he could assure me everything would be ok. That is, until I arrived in the office to find out that not only was my phone not ready, and would not be ready until the afternoon, but I had left my wallet in Elena's house. I didn't make it back to Pimentel in time to see Julio. Oh well...valentine's day is overrated anyway, right?

Hey everybody, Well the waiting has stopped. I officially have my first bout of sickness in the DR. Oh, it is not so much fun. I am in the capital now dropping off a present in the lab every morning when I wake up. Yep, the life of an american in a third world country. So I have a good bit of time in the office all day to get some stuff done. Two months in, things are going fairly well outside my health. We have been traveling some in the past week or so. I ...