back in Santo Domingo

So we arivied back in Santo Domingo this past Tuesday. It was kinda sad to leave La Cumbre because i really like it there and like my family a bunch, but now we are one step closer to arriving in our actually sites. We actually won´t know what we are doing or where we are going untill tuesday, then we will go there for 5 days starting wednesday, then come back to Santo Domingo for a week, and then go back to our sites to live for two years. I really want to know where i´ll be going, i wish they would tell us sooner then the day before we go there... but what can you do.

This week we have been going to visit a volunteer who lives about an hour out of Santo Domingo and works with a national park trying to promote tourism. The park is on the beach and also includes a coral reef in the sea, and so the main revenue for the park is getting people to come in to go Scuba Diving. We actually got to go snorkeling one afternoon, but it started raining about an hour into it which didn´t make it quite as fun as it could have been, but it was still really cool. Also at the park they have some burial remains from the Caribe indians so we got to see some of the bones in the ¨museum¨ they had there.

One friday we went to a cave that was by his site and walked around in there for about 2 hours. The caves were cool but there has been lots of damage done to them on account that people go in to take the stalagtights to make carvings out of them to sell. That night we also went camping, but not in what i would consider in the traditional sense becaus we basically just set up our tents on the driveway of a person who lived by the cave. But it was still nice since all of us evnrionment volunteers were all haning out together for the night by the fire. But i´m gonna try to put up some more pictures now and will try to update again when i know where i´ll be living the next few years.



This is us during a trip to Santiago to visit one of the host sisters who went to the university there. We are at the momonument of heros.




Picutre of us in front of a map mural we painted at the school in La Cumbre




Picutre of my host mom in La Cumbre making cheese




finished product



Picutre of me and my host family