Komon ou ye?

Just got back from the Capital, where i spent the past few days living with a very nice family that works at the US Embassy, and sharing a massive and delicious thanksgiving feast with around 200 other PC volunteers. It was pretty amazing, and i am so thankful to have such a great family of friends here. This holiday would be very depressing without them.

The family I stayed with along with a few other volunteers was very nice and accomodating. Unlike us volunteers, embassy employees make money, and live very well. So we were treated to our own beds in air conditioned rooms with hot water showers!! There was also a fool sized fridge in the house....packed to the brim with food! They told us to have at it.....oh....and we did. It was a great experience. The wife is a foreign service officer working in the department of civil rights, and the husband is in the army reserves and was deployed in Iraq a few years ago. They are a very interesting couple, and i had a blast staying with them.

So, that is how i passed my thanksgiving.

In other news, i just ordered another 40 filters with Francisco. Excited to get that project started again. I also signed up for some optional language training. I will be spending the next week, starting tomorrow, in a Batey (look it up)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batey_(sugar_workers'_town)
learning how to speak Haitian Kreyol. I am very excited to learn a little bit of this language. It is kinda similar to French.

Other than that, life is same as always here, nothing too exciting to report. Im sure ill be updating you guys after my training.

Dios Le Bendiga!

p.s. we made Guacamole in my class while we studied Mexico. The kids loved it!