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Chapter One - Santo Domingo - Day 1
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“Oops! Sorry! I’ll make another one.”
It seems a bit fishy to me. Meanwhile the girls who are following some way behind sail through the exit door, and are then unable to re-enter the airport to complete the new document. The signing is done by the agent reaching through the door, and us signing on the other side, watched over by a suspicious airport guard.
Finally we encounter ...
All at once
... houses and then took the car we were picked up in, to another house where we would be staying. The house seemed pretty nice; it was well guarded with three sets of gates just to get in. The house belongs to the family, Carlos’ aunt and grandma live here. Inside is clean and inviting, I have my own room and Milagro insists on making my bed and organizing my ****. Fine by me.
The next morning breakfast was served. Mangu (mashed plantains) , yucca, ...
Mobile Update
... for the guagua out front. We then drove to Cento Leon! Centro Leon is an art museum with the Jimenez cigar factory behind it. These cigars are the most famous of the DR and are made with Cuban tobacco leaves (the seeds were stolen out of Cuba). The museum is huge and is vey modern like museums back home! I hadn't been to a museum in a long time, so it was great going to one! We were late for our tour, so we waited in the gift shop while Leah arranged for another tour. ...
Work can begin!
... presentations on the 1st and our Dominican counterparts left Thursday while volunteers left Saturday. Other then that I had no idea what order the presentations were or the schedule for Wednesday. We got to the office at 10 am and hung out for everyone to arrive. I used a friend's computer to see the order of presentations; there were 2 groups that started at 1pm. My brother and I were the 1st to present in 1 of the groups. We had ...
Up a Mountain
ELECTIONS (CONTINUED): A couple blogs back I wrote about the election process here in the Dominican Republic. As a democratic society, it is a somewhat straightforward operation, although people complain no matter the outcome (as they do all over the world). The only problem (well, let's say the biggest problem) is that with uneducated citizens you do not get an understanding of what is important to a community; the political issues become lost ...
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