Im back

So im back from an awesome week. We spent Monday through Wed. in Jarabacoa which is a little town smack dab in the middle of the country. About an hour and a half from Santiago. Very cool. There we presented our project plans for the coming year and thusly ending (formely) our training period. We are now free to do whatever the heck we want to do for the rest of 2 years, lol.
After the conference on wed. a couple volunteers and I went up to visit another volunteers site in Manabao, which is way up the mountain towards Pico Duarte. We visited a freezing cold river, and got caught n a pelting downpour. IT was the first time i have felt cold in months. At night the temperature drops into the 50s, yea thats super cold here. We slept under comforters! We made a solomi, egg, platano dinner and played dominoes all night, it was a blast. The next day, Thursday, we went white water rafting down the same river we saw the day before. Since it had rained so much the rapids were sizable. IT was so much fun. We went with guides, obviously, but it was so cool weaving in between huge rocks down tiny waterfalls for 2 hours! A couple people fell out, including me, and a few people were injured but it was no big deal. After that we all went and got pizza in town. Sooo good. I love pizza. Then a few volunteers came back to Santiago with me to spend the night and check out my environment. WE ended up going to Chilis (thats right the american chain resteraunt). IT was built 2 months ago. Quesadillas, chicken tacos, burgers, fries,mmmmmmmmmm!!! Then on Friday we all went into the city to check out the sites and hang out for a bit. They all left after lunchtime and i was left extremely tired from the weeks activites. So i went back to my apartment and took a long nap....then went to bed, lol. Today ive just been chillin, tonight im going to the nursing school graduation of one of my neighbors. PRetty excited about that, should be a good time. Anyways...im gonna try to attach some pictures and see if it works.