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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------{ November 11, 2006 }
Back in Santo Domingo
I got back to Santo Domingo yesterday and it's HOT. It's not as hot as when we left, but after living in the mountains for 5 weeks where it actually gets cool enough to put a sweatshirt on at night, it's hot. Now my fear is getting sent to one of the hottest campos in the South for my site. I'll find out Monday. All the other groups besides mine already know where they are going but we have the great pleasure of being the last to find out. Lucky us. Soon enough though. The crazy part is that we find out Monday and then leave on Tuesday to go on a site visit until the following Sunday. Not much time in between for mental preparation.
I already miss Jarabacoa. I really enjoyed my time there and even though it was short, I felt like a part of the community. I would definitely prefer to live in the mountains and visit the beach...crazy coming from someone living in the Caribbean now I suppose. I'm going to try and put pictures up soon, but it's difficult because they take a long time to load, I have a lot, and the computers are slow, but I'm trying.
We're having a party tonight at my house with anyone that can come so I'm looking forward to reuniting with some of the people in the other groups and hearing how their training was.
The wedding wasn't all that different from a U.S. wedding- it was hot and I got burned a little bit and the preacher talked a lot and added on to some of the vows, but otherwise it was similar. It was nice to have gotten the opportunity to go. We had 3 nights in a row of going away parties from Tuesday through Thursday. Wed. night they killed a rabbit for us...it was actually really good. Thursday night they had a Perico Ripiao party- Perico Ripiao means typical merengue with a drum, accordian and guido (metal instrument). It was really fun.
Posted by katie on November 11, 2006 12:26 PM | Permalink
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