Rocky's Rock & Blues Bar and Hotel Sosua

... It was pretty neat to see how talented these young ladies were - they painted, sketched, sculpted, sewed, studied law, designed gardens, among other accomplishments. They have become the faces of freedom here in the DR and represent a movement opposing violence against women. The novel "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alverez is based on their story...I bought it today at the museum because I ...

... item max. So the cashier calls the manager over and all four of them proceeded to argue about how items they had...and they spent more time debating the matter than it would have taken to ring all the items. Finally when I realized I could pay with a credit card I decided to go off and look for some more things. On my second trip to the register I was behind a man and his young son ...

... written reports of the readings, lots of presentations and the occassional essay. But most exciting is that for Spanish & Procesos we get to take field trips to: the cigar factory, a museum, the Zona Franca trading zone, and one of the poor barrios. Yay for field trips! I'm thinking about joining the gym across from the university to offset the emotional baggage of unusual cultural eating habits. It's only been two weeks & I'm already sick of yucca. I may also ...

Yesterday was a very exhausting but exciting day! We went on a 3-hour treasure hunt around the city in groups of four, so that we could learn our way around the city. We had to take the conchos which are small cars that usually cram 4 people in back & 2 in the passenger seat & they have specific routes with letters. I was the chief of my team and the whole experience was so impowering! I feel more comfortable about ...

... s forecast showed nothing but sun every day! not that that helped us!) Check out time was supposed to be 1pm, but Ray had gotten us a later check-out of 3pm, so we had extra time before we had to go back to the room to clean up. Our plane didn't leave until 8pm and the bus was going to arrive at the hotel at 5:25 to get us. So we had some time to frolick in the waves, and yes, although it was starting to clear up, the water was still very wavy/choppy ...

... the night before on my credit card to my mom!!) and then $4 per minute to make a call via a calling card. She said the best way to make a phone call is to dial directly from the hotel room, where it's "only" 50 cents per minute. There doesn't appear to be internet in the rooms either, so it might be a challenge to get this blog up online this week, although there is supposed to be an "internet centre" at the resort, and then there are internet places in the ...

Rescue undertaken... toured where BIG FAT PIG Trujillo used to sit & slaughter... & then left promptly for Cabarete, Sosua, and finally, the peninsula of Samana, which was Fantastic = could've stayed on for weeks there. Altogether, Beautiful country and water. Many threatening people though, both on deserted beaches, as well as deserted roads... Food was lacking! except for the fish! I hjear it's gotten better though, and that they keep some of their own produce for domestic consumption.