Well, hurricanes have kind of put a damper on our plans. Instead of going to Enriquillo this weekend (to visit an economics volunteer ON THE BEACH), I will now wait out the rest of Hanna and Ike in Santo Domingo. Hopefully I can get out there the begining of next week. Because of the storms, we are also out of wireless at the training center, so I will have to wait till it comes back to post more pictures (too many bad virus stories from public computers).
Our training class had their first Dengue Fever victim. She´s in the hospital because her fever was getting too high, although she said the pain isn´t THAT bad. I guess they can´t give you pain meds either (not sure why), so you just have to ride it out.
I saw my first giant poisonious cien pies (centipede) yesterday. It was in our classroom! It was probably about 6 inches long and the width of a dry-erase marker. It was hissing at us, very scary. We got a stick and removed it.
This morning my Doña bought bananas from the banana guy for her little store. She unpacked the box and found TWO double bananas, they look like siamese bananas, fused together along the entire length...really cool. She said they are very rare and she´s lucky she got two in one package....weird.
Tonight we are going to a carwash. During the day, car washes are just that, car washes. At night they turn into kind of an outdoor bar area. Hopefully it´ll be so loud people don´t try to talk to me in Spanish.
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Sounds like lots of excitement! does she charge extra for the double bananas? have fun at the car wash tonight. should be a wild time.
>>We got a stick and removed it.<<
You guys didn't have the heart to kill that giant centipede?
Hope you'll never have to find out how painful Dengue Fever is like.
I've been busy, will visit and chat with you later. Be safe!
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