Casi Alla

So, I just got back from the Dentist here in Santo Domingo. Nicer than the one in the states i go to! Weird right? And, with this awesome, everything is absolutely free, health insurance i have as a volunteer, i got a free filling :) Since there is no fluoride in the water here, you have to take special care of teeth, and as my mother knows, i wasn't to great to begin with. All kinds of plaque and nasty stuff. Anyways, i finished that up and am waiting in the Peace Corps office to have my physical done by our in-house Doctors. We have 2 doctors stationed at the Peace Corps office just in case someone gets...i dunno.....ameobic dysnetary, among many other things. They are great.

The usual "hotel" we volunteers stay at when we are in the capitol has been condemned due to an undisclosed "security incident", so now we get to stay at a hotel where i did not contract scabies and get it reimbursed! What a day!

Im going to the US tomorrow!! Quick update on stuff here. Classes are going well. Small business class will be finished by the end of June, we have 2 sessions left. Engineer club is going amazing as usual. My kids threw my a surprise birthday party! They made Spaghetti, and made decorations out of recycled material, just like i tried to teach them in class.



The HBD is Happy Birthday. All about saving materials, lol. Made me so happy that they thought to do this for me! I have the best job in the world.

We just completed a trash pick-up project in our community as well. We got the kids together and told them we were gonna pick up all the trash in the field next door. They were all bummed out until we told them they would each receive a pair of brand new(12 peso) rubber gloves! Then they got so excited to clean up, and were asking if they were allowed to keep the gloves, haha. I totally underestimated how much trash there actually was, though. Its just layer upon layer upon layer! Anyways, we did a lot of work and at the end, the kids planted the sign we created in class, it says Engineer Club asks you to please not throw paper in this area, thanks! These guys are the best!