Occidental El Embajador European Plan - No Meals Santo Domingo

... the farms and the river. While we were swimming in the river, I felt an uncomfortable prick on my neck. I reached to feel what it was and grabbed a stinger from a bee. I had never been stung by a bee and quickly remembered the medical presentation from our PC Nurse Jo, where she told us if we had never been stung by a bee we should still carry around an Epi Pen in case our respiration system fails us by an allergic reaction. To say the least, I ...

... link to the final product: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qch3G40S K50 We made quite the scene: three very non-Dominicans playing with beach garbage in the heat of the day! Tomorrow it's more studying, more breastfeeding research and hopefully a break from the work with a trip to the historical Zona Colonial. Wish me luck in my last week of classes! I definitely need all the extra help I can get to fill the gaps of what my lessons and studying doesn't cover. Amanda

... and did a refresher prior to my arrival, I was only able to make out a few words due to his fast pace and accent. I expected most people to not speak English, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that Eddie was actually taking English classes. We have a short, but interesting conversation.. Eddie:Where are you from? Me: Texas..Tejas.. Eddie: Eh, are you originally from Dominican Republic? (No) But you look like me... After a few more ...

... Aside from hanging out in the OR, I also had my COS (close of serivce) conference in late January and made a quick trip to the beach with Paula in February. I am finishing up my projects in my site. In the next few weeks we will complete stove numbers 37-45 and be done with it!! I also had 15 more water filters delivered, which we are going to install for a total of 45. I am happy with how all of the work is turning out and I feel ...

... up. It was a nightmare with all these people being crammed into the bus and half the bus having to get up and reshuffle because you had to fill up the seats from the back to the front. Musical chairs in a bus. The music was very loud, they like loud music everywhere and anywhere, and to make things even more interesting a couple of young guys were on the bus drinking! Yep, you can get drunk on public transport! They were giving people a hard time, not too silly though ...

... where we reviewed our work over the past year and discussed ways to plan the remaining year (technically ten months). We are also working on restructuring the national organization of Brigada Verde (the green brigade) environmental youth group so that should be fun. We are trying to make it more of a scouting initiative (like Girl or Boy Scouts) where they use hands-on activities to learn about the ...

... the traffic to our right. I figured he was just another kid trying to sell a tourist some drugs or wangle some change for what he said was food, but judging by his appearance would be for drugs. I realized there was no one walking in front of us at this point, and though I didn´t realize it until shortly after, no one behind us for a ways either. Before I could completely comprehend what was ocurring, the annoying, shabbily-dressed ...

... to see all the hump back whales jumping out of the water. They are HUGE creatures, and we saw tons of them. I really enjoyed the trip, until half way through it I got really see sick. Luckily I did not throw up, but I was really nausiated, and missed the last 40 minutes or so of sited whales because everytime I looked up and opened my eyes I felt more sick! Although I felt sick for the rest of the afternoon, it was all worth it to see the whales ...

The chaos finally died down with the word of my sudden "near-death-experience" that my neighbors had invented and when I made it back to Pimentel after my haitus in the capital to get away from the loco vecinos, things were getting back to normal. I was back only one day in my site, just long enough to explain to everyone I was in fact, not dead, not going back to the United states and not entirely still mad, trying to sqelch any rumors that were going on about town and the surrounding ...

Some exciting news for you, I got a puppy last Thursday. She (Aguacate) is pretty darn cute and already knows her name. I´ll try to put a few pics up in the next few weeks, depending on how angry I get at the internet connection. The only thing I didn´t think about was that she will be the only ***** in San José. Looks like somebody is getting her tubes tied, pronto. I´m having some problems finalizing my house. The couple ...