Dominican Republic

CBT
March 26, 2008 - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Hola, Not much time, but here are some things. My new family in El Seibo is great.  I live with one lady and her two nephews but there is another boy and several men always coming in and out.  I played dominoes with three of the men last night for hours.  I´m getting better, but the way they play there is a quite a lot of strategy involved...
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On to Community based training
March 21, 2008 - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Hola, We finished our inital training this week. The Monday after Easter we are all heading to smaller communities based on our assignment. ICT and special education groups are heading northeast to El Seibo and the Environment group is heading northwest to Santiago. We´re going to practice creating community diagnostics and analyzing them in...
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Post Visit
March 18, 2008 - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Hola chicos, The trip to Los Quemados was a lot of fun.  I took the bus from Santo Domingo to Bonao and met Tri there.  After some lunch, we visited a friend of his in the hospital there.  One of the teachers he works with was sick.  The hospital was really nice compared to others I've seen though.  We got a ride back with Tri's host...
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Doing it Right
March 17, 2008 - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Day 16 – Como Un Dominicano – Santo Domingo, DR 3/12/08               Soit just keeps getting more and more interesting.  In our never-ending quest to acculturate ourselves and trulybecome Dominican we have found hilarity and embarrassment.  I’m sure that this is one entry thatmany will find to be humorous. ...
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Las Matas De Farfan
March 14, 2008 - Las Matas de Farfán, Dominican Republic
Thanks for all of the comments. It makes me feel good to hear from you all. Training is going well. But the hours are long and the air in the city is pretty dirty and smoggy. I can´t wait to get out of the city for the next part of training.  This weekend everyone got paired up with a current volunteer and we are getting the TRUE Peace Corps...
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