My First Week:
I dont have much time on the internet here, so I will try and be consise. Forgive any misspellings, this keyboard was nto designed for english.
It´s been a surreal couple of days. Everything is so different here, so I have been taking my time adjusting. I have discovered that I really like Dominican food and yesterday Silvia, who is the librarian at the COPA school, and her neighbour Keniya, came by our house to make dinner with us and show us how to cook Dominican spaghetti and tostones, which are friend plaintain or banana. I love tostones!
I am still getting used to the heat, although it is not too terrible because there is usually a breeze. Becky and I have been on a few short walks but we usually come back needing to take a shower right away! We´ve been lucky so far with the power outages and have gotten used to taknig advantage of power while we have it.
My Spanish is a little rusty after the IB exams but I´ve been using it every day now and I keep learning new words. Sometimes it´s hard to communicate but people here are very patient with new volunteers and have so far been impressed with the Spanish I do know, so I´m pretty happy with how I am progressing.
Since I´m almost out of time, I must dash. Don´t forget to check out my flickr under ptbrg to see pictures!
I dont have much time on the internet here, so I will try and be consise. Forgive any misspellings, this keyboard was nto designed for english.
It´s been a surreal couple of days. Everything is so different here, so I have been taking my time adjusting. I have discovered that I really like Dominican food and yesterday Silvia, who is the librarian at the COPA school, and her neighbour Keniya, came by our house to make dinner with us and show us how to cook Dominican spaghetti and tostones, which are friend plaintain or banana. I love tostones!
I am still getting used to the heat, although it is not too terrible because there is usually a breeze. Becky and I have been on a few short walks but we usually come back needing to take a shower right away! We´ve been lucky so far with the power outages and have gotten used to taknig advantage of power while we have it.
My Spanish is a little rusty after the IB exams but I´ve been using it every day now and I keep learning new words. Sometimes it´s hard to communicate but people here are very patient with new volunteers and have so far been impressed with the Spanish I do know, so I´m pretty happy with how I am progressing.
Since I´m almost out of time, I must dash. Don´t forget to check out my flickr under ptbrg to see pictures!
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