Los Cacaos

That is my official assignment. I will be working with a Coffee growers association. They are pretty on the game with their coffee, they export and are organicially certified, but they are starting a ¨Ruta de Cafe¨ tour for tourists in Santo Domingo that they need help on. On top of that their community was devestated by hurricanes last year and they still need helping getting things back to normal. I have a lot of ideas and am anxious to get started.

The downside: The town, as of now, has no cell phone service or internet. They promise me that in a couple weeks, at the most, there will be both. I have my doubts.

The upside: The area is gorgeous. It is a mountain covered in rain forest. Also, I am lucky to be place really close to another volunteer and we already have collaboration ideas. It will be nice to work with her.

So, besides not being able to communicate with the outside world, it should be a good next two years. The family I live with is nice and their son works as the assistant to the mayor, so I have some connections with him too. Aside from being super bored some times (I am going to put down a lot of books), the last few days went well and I am excited to finish up in Santo Domingo and go back and work there. Hopefully I can eventually put up pictures too.

Also, my cell phone number is going to change. It should work for this week, but I´m getting a different carrier, one that is actually supposed to start service in my area....eventually.