Back from my volunteer visit. Great time. Awesome food (cereal, quesadillas, empanadas, pancakes, pizza). Took a shower. Two a day, in fact. Amazing what a little spewing tube of water can do—like get out the 2-week shampoo buildup in your hair. The visit made me very excited for my own future project site. Hopefully it will be in a school—that seems to be where the excitement is. Loved the campo feel. I like my barrio and all, but the campos and pueblos have a much homier feel. It was my first time out of the Santo Domingo area. The mountainy areas in the DR are awesome. Getting there and back was a total gringa experience, but I succeeded.
Back to training for a few days, then on Thursday the ICT volunteers go to El Seibo for technical training. It’s the UN model city for the UN Millenium Goals, so it’s got 24-hr luz (!) and enough computer labs for all of us to split up into smaller sections and do some hands-on project management of our own. I’m excited. Means a new host family, though. I’d rather take the one I have with me. We’ll be stationed there for 4 weeks. Will hopefully have decent Internet access. Supposedly we take a day-trip to the beach at some point. I’m pretty excited about that.
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