Thanksgiving and Gripe

Happy Thanksgiving! I know it's a little late but I thought I would share what I did for Thanksgiving. Nearly all the volunteers in the country, approximately 200, come to the capital for a huge party. We rent out a country club and have a Thanksgiving style feast. Then there is dancing and a bunch of other activities. This is a big deal because it's such a change from eating rice and beans and speaking Spanish. It was nice to be able to share with a bunch of people and eat good food and just be American for a couple days. I hope you all had as much fun as I did.

Gripe is the word for a typical American cold. This is what all the people in my campo have thought that I have had for the last 3 weeks. I have been taking home remedies for a few weeks which range from a mixture of honey, lime, and onion to things like not washing my hair or doing anything with bleach. Needless to say, these didn't work. So I came to the doctors here and they put me on some real medicine to hopefully get rid of this wretched cough. All the coughing has tired out a muscle on my side and now every time I cough it feels like someone is stabbing me with a knife...lucky me.

On to some good stuff: My Computer Came! Thanks to my Grandma I got a computer to replace my old one that died. Additionally I got a bunch of packages from all my great family and friends from home, chocolate, poptarts, movies, baked goods, a bunch of great stuff. I really appreciate it all and I will be eating a ton of good chocolate and watching American movies in my down time in these upcoming weeks.

Today I am going to talk to an English class at a University in Santo Domingo before I head back to Los Cacaos. This will be interesting and fun, and hopefully I can pick their brains on the best and worst practices in English teaching for them and that should help me with my English classes in my site. Back to work...