Wow, so it's been a while. A lot has happened these past few weeks. I'm feeling comfortable living here now. I've been through my culture shock phase, for the most part. I just got really tired of eating rice and chicken gizado every meal, and the inefficiency that's rampant here is still slightly frustrating. (I've been trying to get access the...

So I realized that I haven't given any real description of the people or life here in the DR, since a part of me feels like you all are living this experience with me and thus already know all of it already! I'll try to give a somewhat accurate account, even though sometimes I don't even understand the craziness that is the Dominican Republic. F...

Hey guys! I got a new mailing account with Mail Boxes Etc, and it's suppose to be really reliable and much faster than normal mail here, and it's in Santiago, which is so much easier to get to than going to the capital to get mail. It's good for people in the States, because my mailing addresses are to Miami, and then they ship it down to Santia...

Hey guys-it's summer-woo hoo!!! I've officially been in my site about a month and a half now, close to 4 months in country, and time is going fast. This past month I've been working b/t my two schools testing all the students the teachers referred to me in grades 1st-4th, that have problems reading. I've tested over 100 kids, and I love working ...

Yay!! We received our sites last Monday, and I will be living the next two years in a pueblo/campo site about 10 mins outside of Santiago! It's a gorgeous area, very lush, green, and mountainous. The city is close, so I can get all of my shopping done and do whatever I need to do there, but I get to live in the tranquillo campo, which is fabulou...

This past week I had an opportunity to be a part of something great - a medical mission. A team of surgeons, doctors, and support staff spent their own money and used their vacation time to come down to Santiago for a week to do around 90 hernia surgeries in five days. Only a few of them spoke Spanish so they called on the Peace Corps for transl...

Hello, I went to visit Johnathon Geyer who is another Health Volunteer working in Moca which is about an hour east of Santiago. The health volunteers were lucky in that we did not have to travel alone. I traveled with Jessie and she is a wonderful person. It was nice to get to know another PCV outside of training and to get the chance to get bey...