tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67681901224438927562024-03-05T02:47:53.624-08:00Ha!ley's D.R. BlogHa!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-13892072428764218232009-06-06T15:46:00.000-07:002009-06-06T17:24:37.944-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0RlzEgw6x0KkT0J42bPCBOKAjvE2fDi6w8LDmjtdkIhcLevceGKwZI_0gJ35A50OHLabSEBZQkIe0A3DU1XyJ4Xdkpje5AKpUid5ajr6nnwnHdlB5wy994vSiMBgIxUh1ft4OWsXsv0/s1600-h/D.R.+2+0815.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0RlzEgw6x0KkT0J42bPCBOKAjvE2fDi6w8LDmjtdkIhcLevceGKwZI_0gJ35A50OHLabSEBZQkIe0A3DU1XyJ4Xdkpje5AKpUid5ajr6nnwnHdlB5wy994vSiMBgIxUh1ft4OWsXsv0/s320/D.R.+2+0815.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344369594260125250" border="0" /></a><br />(up) A random pic I took in Santo Domingo. (down) A cashew seed before it's cooked. Ramona's neighbor has a cashew tree in her house, and she gave us some of the fruit.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mfq9KVz7Fx5fUAPql4Iq0AMUMWokHGcrv-kviwNBKKfNUGp8KlZV0hCD85865ErtqZkQihubdwNEbbpb3BISzqeDQCPCxTu4VHR5WentXci3qxFtmWrrNifY-dIIM0STqaw59mKUQ8c/s1600-h/D.R.+2+110.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mfq9KVz7Fx5fUAPql4Iq0AMUMWokHGcrv-kviwNBKKfNUGp8KlZV0hCD85865ErtqZkQihubdwNEbbpb3BISzqeDQCPCxTu4VHR5WentXci3qxFtmWrrNifY-dIIM0STqaw59mKUQ8c/s320/D.R.+2+110.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344369589738914706" border="0" /></a><br />The cashew fruit, with the seed on it. It's extremely bitter and juicy, I couldn't eat it, and on the inside it's bright yellow.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0sQSdK6HL-niSFtS21cvrtXLBAKhs47koLl2Dh87CNGK0wVzHefYSwlhjIg8bjrjUx4gvtVt2iv0n6ycZzOOSf2IPaob7rFlbXtmzDCkFDeNke2IduCXhuZTf-eFPV5EeKyDG96rOcjA/s1600-h/D.R.+2+103.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0sQSdK6HL-niSFtS21cvrtXLBAKhs47koLl2Dh87CNGK0wVzHefYSwlhjIg8bjrjUx4gvtVt2iv0n6ycZzOOSf2IPaob7rFlbXtmzDCkFDeNke2IduCXhuZTf-eFPV5EeKyDG96rOcjA/s320/D.R.+2+103.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344369585404413522" border="0" /></a><br />A booth at the beach.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaltornNVoI_hXoIBWpaDco9R0jLKl-JXkMXXQM4nGwuUdUvB0OYiRSts-QC-ThSeg-BMCj7TWeINHSHS8RoyoJspMp44HnX-oG64KorkDcCdS0t73h6qgiWvcr49Pqs7TukPMt2GARI/s1600-h/D.R.+2+099.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaltornNVoI_hXoIBWpaDco9R0jLKl-JXkMXXQM4nGwuUdUvB0OYiRSts-QC-ThSeg-BMCj7TWeINHSHS8RoyoJspMp44HnX-oG64KorkDcCdS0t73h6qgiWvcr49Pqs7TukPMt2GARI/s320/D.R.+2+099.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344369581064223138" border="0" /></a><br />Orqui and me on our class trip.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRb2PMj1YiQ3bolMdhn0mTwg9Dl-aafoxOzrIB6g4Mi22MCm9Yk1wEZsqnOJOrnmCEa22Cfcfko0H5c3SYasw7NGmIIXwl0l7VFbpdHQ6VJmNLpae4PaPeO3Pn7DIna4aDu5ge-f2L-ww/s1600-h/D.R.+2+096.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRb2PMj1YiQ3bolMdhn0mTwg9Dl-aafoxOzrIB6g4Mi22MCm9Yk1wEZsqnOJOrnmCEa22Cfcfko0H5c3SYasw7NGmIIXwl0l7VFbpdHQ6VJmNLpae4PaPeO3Pn7DIna4aDu5ge-f2L-ww/s320/D.R.+2+096.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344369581191064482" border="0" /></a><br />Ramona and me.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoiO7f5yCZGKUqJYR6mfEORmo_ElCPHitAfIotnf9wC5j2jYC8zMfHfxTEkpOaYpwO4p3dIGc71B1gRR-yQromCxxKsFjo52E1ZuHFyrQC5Gu5KG3oCEmDCUk-7uN8mVRtSEEex9zrr60/s1600-h/D.R.+2+093.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoiO7f5yCZGKUqJYR6mfEORmo_ElCPHitAfIotnf9wC5j2jYC8zMfHfxTEkpOaYpwO4p3dIGc71B1gRR-yQromCxxKsFjo52E1ZuHFyrQC5Gu5KG3oCEmDCUk-7uN8mVRtSEEex9zrr60/s320/D.R.+2+093.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344366286910995218" border="0" /></a><br />In the Cuevas de las Maravillas. We couldn't take pics inside.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBCz4H4qk7thyxPDNF2MW9WH_cI8lblBrO-3fTVEWmXYgOsTY6n6G0mX0ZmieyajHj1yWRESapj3VCFaICaa67qJEMSgcApBArEBoh9t-R344aWCbA17bdsDwvf3oVcFe3j1omgTCR4DE/s1600-h/D.R.+2+091.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBCz4H4qk7thyxPDNF2MW9WH_cI8lblBrO-3fTVEWmXYgOsTY6n6G0mX0ZmieyajHj1yWRESapj3VCFaICaa67qJEMSgcApBArEBoh9t-R344aWCbA17bdsDwvf3oVcFe3j1omgTCR4DE/s320/D.R.+2+091.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344366281935389122" border="0" /></a><br />At a pull off leaving Santo Domingo.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7UaGVisbs7vx41jcu4YCL5lzVB6GNklRyYqSjEfX8wsKXUbO9x7layPf2XesSlAZ99Wu-NxwOwap_VFwvH2IcVqH7yNJKN40WBenEEHO7NRDr4K2cdXHuM0eAS_Eti42jY_PqYxwXdg/s1600-h/D.R.+2+084.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7UaGVisbs7vx41jcu4YCL5lzVB6GNklRyYqSjEfX8wsKXUbO9x7layPf2XesSlAZ99Wu-NxwOwap_VFwvH2IcVqH7yNJKN40WBenEEHO7NRDr4K2cdXHuM0eAS_Eti42jY_PqYxwXdg/s320/D.R.+2+084.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344366279299628002" border="0" /></a><br />Dos campesinas!!! jajaja<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHNDiQlHsw-SdwrzILja2aAUSNcAjv-YBuxivdzoKWeDaV6YQts6e_R5wj-MTFXvW8RuEeZSrD5tGBSdq-P2P-_Xz2NMIII3ZlpMnkE-eUUGJ4tt2L8wKB0jhTs6dQMurpC5TBWYHme_8/s1600-h/D.R.+2+069.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHNDiQlHsw-SdwrzILja2aAUSNcAjv-YBuxivdzoKWeDaV6YQts6e_R5wj-MTFXvW8RuEeZSrD5tGBSdq-P2P-_Xz2NMIII3ZlpMnkE-eUUGJ4tt2L8wKB0jhTs6dQMurpC5TBWYHme_8/s320/D.R.+2+069.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344366274794264946" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGySwjCpryESOKodZ0i4IRebOWvv85ipmcqBSOrh91yPhr3VCNDkTQCQoidGj3c-iyWv2l741o_GLWjUcl4KOLJd8Yw-JLs-4TPUIrHNZIVKXIk_hOPhyphenhyphenpMinPYk-ZvSFL4ARaJehiV2s/s1600-h/D.R.+2+066.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGySwjCpryESOKodZ0i4IRebOWvv85ipmcqBSOrh91yPhr3VCNDkTQCQoidGj3c-iyWv2l741o_GLWjUcl4KOLJd8Yw-JLs-4TPUIrHNZIVKXIk_hOPhyphenhyphenpMinPYk-ZvSFL4ARaJehiV2s/s320/D.R.+2+066.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344366269402401954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0nOfCpyHaFjas-NmDvv0uXOC5nqRLmECJBkcHux2Qw-VLubVvxZ-vWsjbWiCy8yR1o5TswJqA-Pczr4LDnKBxbtHhbQNFc3MhOoXxUSG9CF0ZhiamxY1gaIA06ROiN4iHcsyFrZm3AA/s1600-h/D.R.+2+056.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0nOfCpyHaFjas-NmDvv0uXOC5nqRLmECJBkcHux2Qw-VLubVvxZ-vWsjbWiCy8yR1o5TswJqA-Pczr4LDnKBxbtHhbQNFc3MhOoXxUSG9CF0ZhiamxY1gaIA06ROiN4iHcsyFrZm3AA/s320/D.R.+2+056.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344361990331079106" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAscpqCCGLeLturQhNUoqmiCwPsUJ1igorNO4C2RycrFUAhTnKEacnP7SgQEjg3uB08VKVY2e03rxHWj018nBZ13C0na_6tvQaXPRR1Q0BSnMZ5nulJ6K7_KENszJn7mkfKm6TndCgxRc/s1600-h/D.R.+2+055.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAscpqCCGLeLturQhNUoqmiCwPsUJ1igorNO4C2RycrFUAhTnKEacnP7SgQEjg3uB08VKVY2e03rxHWj018nBZ13C0na_6tvQaXPRR1Q0BSnMZ5nulJ6K7_KENszJn7mkfKm6TndCgxRc/s320/D.R.+2+055.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344361974941145058" border="0" /></a><br />i<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9U3x6tOc8PZoFXNKhyH-DP4xJzoELwfkS55joYYO2OYTr0C1B-9bpRWVNDRMV9wXDuWOpkuPozjBZ020LgsjCdSxiXdn9fubwAZMl7ykzOY6eYB5TvmvCT98j2WT04CSvaBzCV88v1_Y/s1600-h/D.R.+2+051.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9U3x6tOc8PZoFXNKhyH-DP4xJzoELwfkS55joYYO2OYTr0C1B-9bpRWVNDRMV9wXDuWOpkuPozjBZ020LgsjCdSxiXdn9fubwAZMl7ykzOY6eYB5TvmvCT98j2WT04CSvaBzCV88v1_Y/s320/D.R.+2+051.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344361970152718146" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The way to Bahia de las Aguilas. It was awesome to drive right on the coast, and further on the road got higher up, and the beach turned back to white sand, from desert to almost rainforest. There was a town called Paraiso (paradise), and when I first say the sign that said 'Bienvenidos a Paraiso', (welcome to paradise) I thought it was joking.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghLjTd4xXZmloYJO8SgjgaF5K8nCuWR1WjiFKKlWVSCEPLraTP7vjqBxtz1935H9Js5aEIEBxaaTsRb_sEZ3k7bwqbpGkSVGU2TovBc4KqiY1fV8VQfh_-PzGXptriaG9mwnOjZ-v0t7Q/s1600-h/D.R.+2+053.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghLjTd4xXZmloYJO8SgjgaF5K8nCuWR1WjiFKKlWVSCEPLraTP7vjqBxtz1935H9Js5aEIEBxaaTsRb_sEZ3k7bwqbpGkSVGU2TovBc4KqiY1fV8VQfh_-PzGXptriaG9mwnOjZ-v0t7Q/s320/D.R.+2+053.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344361968967702210" border="0" /></a><br />The way back from the beach. It's like a desert; the cactus, the red dirt, and the unbearable heat!!!!!!!! I was practically melting in the bus.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSAU4G5LM8yOIEeiT8JFpBEup34YYGK1JsnSakg0ddoWX6GhaAiXvR6Mwy-90d9OI8U69fjq4xG5D4vcAZTY3bhNNH6oBXcxgXnlKo9BaAmO0hkilE92U3y7qMT0fu8Kzjk0qbcogexY/s1600-h/D.R.+2+050.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnSAU4G5LM8yOIEeiT8JFpBEup34YYGK1JsnSakg0ddoWX6GhaAiXvR6Mwy-90d9OI8U69fjq4xG5D4vcAZTY3bhNNH6oBXcxgXnlKo9BaAmO0hkilE92U3y7qMT0fu8Kzjk0qbcogexY/s320/D.R.+2+050.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344360336689453442" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglSLBzCrcTjWVQsJ5xhhjoNby35M_g7KFHFJCBueZUIE84bjieNfjw0mHBnHd-CL0BKozi85lolXqQhFVcx6IIoQzv02AFdtFaNlD9GYsHASm2DgMIxqHnUjMbShrk8M3uyzIqrjGvRUM/s1600-h/D.R.+2+047.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglSLBzCrcTjWVQsJ5xhhjoNby35M_g7KFHFJCBueZUIE84bjieNfjw0mHBnHd-CL0BKozi85lolXqQhFVcx6IIoQzv02AFdtFaNlD9GYsHASm2DgMIxqHnUjMbShrk8M3uyzIqrjGvRUM/s320/D.R.+2+047.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344360333746450978" border="0" /></a><br />Hueeeyyy!!! Ya llegaron!!!!<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil4tkPUH-HNasTszgapQbxyQ6F-6mga18vTHectN-poyaUzunyiJDvkpbnM1p1UPUP-dGb4eyPsrfgolgvQ7bZTpSUnuz0cwU5luD94bjDrXNczgQSvKtCMgoz7W0XHVr0Swh4DpMSbh4/s1600-h/D.R.+2+044.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil4tkPUH-HNasTszgapQbxyQ6F-6mga18vTHectN-poyaUzunyiJDvkpbnM1p1UPUP-dGb4eyPsrfgolgvQ7bZTpSUnuz0cwU5luD94bjDrXNczgQSvKtCMgoz7W0XHVr0Swh4DpMSbh4/s320/D.R.+2+044.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344360328562961090" border="0" /></a><br />The beach at Bahia de las Aquilas. It's beautiful, all the white sand!!<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_7iuajosg025SlJD4QKK9rH92sGv8M4ShB9HX9TWZjMzMApVDw0xpt9dhJoDqx7Um9oc0rOshHzeCfWU23NxMnV6fI50ipAx0lU3i9Am_VG1Kmfp6igyA6TR3bzHsMIj7eqzgcFnA-A/s1600-h/D.R.+2+042.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_7iuajosg025SlJD4QKK9rH92sGv8M4ShB9HX9TWZjMzMApVDw0xpt9dhJoDqx7Um9oc0rOshHzeCfWU23NxMnV6fI50ipAx0lU3i9Am_VG1Kmfp6igyA6TR3bzHsMIj7eqzgcFnA-A/s320/D.R.+2+042.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344360321912253106" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgktBkjNkSI0fSjLwEZQROHsmISYQRxHei_ptTb4Squ6XqOQWYlG0vIIPC6-FzO6_O8AXFhC7El-H8PmxqzYh_2jfaCUz3Iu07klSi4icuQ8CZCFobWCI0drh5nO47riQbKPAPdaFAcFT8/s1600-h/D.R.+2+034.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgktBkjNkSI0fSjLwEZQROHsmISYQRxHei_ptTb4Squ6XqOQWYlG0vIIPC6-FzO6_O8AXFhC7El-H8PmxqzYh_2jfaCUz3Iu07klSi4icuQ8CZCFobWCI0drh5nO47riQbKPAPdaFAcFT8/s320/D.R.+2+034.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344360318891686850" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHteSeL2QN48c9dwZLdRpVbdMhhO-oaZ6HskhfHDHk9m5aYMz8slKbrvZWOOwMGnYy6jqBMqiDtevjOmPNiqD31UY8aLcVqqoUp5khx79H9BUhyGtXqZGtKlmMavKPIIkoItAFN7pHvc/s1600-h/D.R.+2+030.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHteSeL2QN48c9dwZLdRpVbdMhhO-oaZ6HskhfHDHk9m5aYMz8slKbrvZWOOwMGnYy6jqBMqiDtevjOmPNiqD31UY8aLcVqqoUp5khx79H9BUhyGtXqZGtKlmMavKPIIkoItAFN7pHvc/s320/D.R.+2+030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344352902064974306" border="0" /></a><br />There were rain clouds.. It was sprinkling a little in the boat but when we got there nothing happened. The clouds were nice because the blocked the sun... But nevertheless I got bad sunburn.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCyjsa5pOjN1qUg9m0soXSAK_k9GNgWE5jhvzarZDLUjCSMcRgjV778kyOd0Vt_B6pIPZNqz3asGDTOnYd4EdV0f99iu85vNyA-F7NnbwfjRAZRsNBmyjtwkZOyUhqRzWmFDcwvKSJYY/s1600-h/D.R.+2+027.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidCyjsa5pOjN1qUg9m0soXSAK_k9GNgWE5jhvzarZDLUjCSMcRgjV778kyOd0Vt_B6pIPZNqz3asGDTOnYd4EdV0f99iu85vNyA-F7NnbwfjRAZRsNBmyjtwkZOyUhqRzWmFDcwvKSJYY/s320/D.R.+2+027.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344352898845717010" border="0" /></a><br />I like this pic :)<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYz90WLVD9LG1WKQqDwWFwSggHFP7LvMIc3jITJKKyElXWs8Ov7jnier6OCS8fo2rIyiGowTqbecYkQOxgB1nIyhMJsB_OocITrVzUpH5r70IjPLG89XUkThfRgPo1lnDKetxsccA9lk/s1600-h/D.R.+2+024.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYz90WLVD9LG1WKQqDwWFwSggHFP7LvMIc3jITJKKyElXWs8Ov7jnier6OCS8fo2rIyiGowTqbecYkQOxgB1nIyhMJsB_OocITrVzUpH5r70IjPLG89XUkThfRgPo1lnDKetxsccA9lk/s320/D.R.+2+024.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344352894527937602" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIS65dmclM7RkCSkEO7sxJrI5Le_79UK_Jpy3Y6k_NS_LQ_WN3IcH0o8nWVArDvzbG3Wq-6dX75wnT1qepD0SDcVqU2aIvBPNDdpqlmc7H1z1V01tGaqG4z8fhoxRpvSsWHWjZt8xX_k/s1600-h/D.R.+2+021.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIS65dmclM7RkCSkEO7sxJrI5Le_79UK_Jpy3Y6k_NS_LQ_WN3IcH0o8nWVArDvzbG3Wq-6dX75wnT1qepD0SDcVqU2aIvBPNDdpqlmc7H1z1V01tGaqG4z8fhoxRpvSsWHWjZt8xX_k/s320/D.R.+2+021.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344352890619227730" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Oqey7OOicGx7XaUEEyAev-NQY4uzQosIQDcea4NPUUxBSiDb6h3P5yfd-tCFafN2w1bon0lHYQ8lXBH5LM0nacHmFYzuic49WWbTR8q90Dzrgpg59fH9luIsHDiWNen2J0l_KqMA9BY/s1600-h/D.R.+2+018.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Oqey7OOicGx7XaUEEyAev-NQY4uzQosIQDcea4NPUUxBSiDb6h3P5yfd-tCFafN2w1bon0lHYQ8lXBH5LM0nacHmFYzuic49WWbTR8q90Dzrgpg59fH9luIsHDiWNen2J0l_KqMA9BY/s320/D.R.+2+018.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344352890032483906" border="0" /></a><br />In the boat with my school's freshman...<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcm3paMbt8Q4sb1J-Q_yj_LkkRD1gSmI_5G9_IVbL-5Ijts2RlPsm89ZineNW2PhZ8DyhF7cNlK8LbqsaSo3jDHEMPAplePHxaRbGiMzkQJ1WGuLfXswsWtHYr5-I4uor5Z7NeJ1kRw3c/s1600-h/D.R.+2+016.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcm3paMbt8Q4sb1J-Q_yj_LkkRD1gSmI_5G9_IVbL-5Ijts2RlPsm89ZineNW2PhZ8DyhF7cNlK8LbqsaSo3jDHEMPAplePHxaRbGiMzkQJ1WGuLfXswsWtHYr5-I4uor5Z7NeJ1kRw3c/s320/D.R.+2+016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344351358313893794" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_M9Bn-mDQRXTnCPxSIjZCglhsDXb3UcDACZ-DXob12h5vsXrxD3gsGZXXYwpipMmks2r7NtQmsi2QupwsPDjbfJYaE3VkLKQv_Oe24la-yBWLv2snTcepQX7r1p6xgDZAhVhykusbtiA/s1600-h/D.R.+2+015.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_M9Bn-mDQRXTnCPxSIjZCglhsDXb3UcDACZ-DXob12h5vsXrxD3gsGZXXYwpipMmks2r7NtQmsi2QupwsPDjbfJYaE3VkLKQv_Oe24la-yBWLv2snTcepQX7r1p6xgDZAhVhykusbtiA/s320/D.R.+2+015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344351353083757874" border="0" /></a><br />I love the color of the water! It's so blue.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfoRR82rswLDhc2fQg2GTWsz0EieqOcOy4iZvb_IqVemac_zD8TlSmvMdzadUvkeDzt5Ws-NT8CznRuDWFsnPnf_x7didlV2C_Ma7FptDz75xXVziFNVST5inJyGfL_LKqcuseV9CG4qQ/s1600-h/D.R.+2+007.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfoRR82rswLDhc2fQg2GTWsz0EieqOcOy4iZvb_IqVemac_zD8TlSmvMdzadUvkeDzt5Ws-NT8CznRuDWFsnPnf_x7didlV2C_Ma7FptDz75xXVziFNVST5inJyGfL_LKqcuseV9CG4qQ/s320/D.R.+2+007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344351350295285490" border="0" /></a><br />The dock. From here we got in the little boats and went around a few bends to the beach.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3FFqbjewQdlDnMZ-omjC6o86PTx99iJ7UqUdRkFyH384iDwuiRJ_Mv0Pvxn7GODyXNSWGb0QI6RbwgkiZmI5u1DYqb1yuFwNDNrpsOBMwJxzwycofj_b55pWW8i9DqbXyOZ9GQcVk-8/s1600-h/D.R.+2+009.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3FFqbjewQdlDnMZ-omjC6o86PTx99iJ7UqUdRkFyH384iDwuiRJ_Mv0Pvxn7GODyXNSWGb0QI6RbwgkiZmI5u1DYqb1yuFwNDNrpsOBMwJxzwycofj_b55pWW8i9DqbXyOZ9GQcVk-8/s320/D.R.+2+009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344351345648602290" border="0" /></a><br />Bahia de las Aguilas!!! This is the image that people use to advertise the place..<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLdtQV2F6y4RHR1WFrOFBKVC-A-dEw4oTLVasxXqTzOUq5HWxi0FlXtVOYziEVbXbeJx9kip9ypLJ2NPQyIG1yMjk3286vNCQFU_r4nHt2WWv_et6umtSzh6qB9MWRkyi_IhEaQk2tRg/s1600-h/D.R.+2+002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLdtQV2F6y4RHR1WFrOFBKVC-A-dEw4oTLVasxXqTzOUq5HWxi0FlXtVOYziEVbXbeJx9kip9ypLJ2NPQyIG1yMjk3286vNCQFU_r4nHt2WWv_et6umtSzh6qB9MWRkyi_IhEaQk2tRg/s320/D.R.+2+002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344351340380899298" border="0" /></a>Yesterday I went to La Isla Saona, Saona Island, with the seniors. We met in our school at 4 AM, the went in the huge bus to the east coast of the Republic. We went to Bayahibe, the place where I had gone with my class, but instead of swimming we got into two skiffs that took us to a bigger sail boat, then we headed off to the island. It was so amazingly awesome! We were on a boat in the Caribbean, listening to Bob Marley, haha I felt like I was in a movie or something. The front of the boat had netting where we could sit and look down into the water below us. About halfway through, the water turned black and it started raining, and we all got super soaked but it didn't matter because we were going to get wet anyways. And the view was gorgeous. The rain stopped before we got there, and the skiffs took us to the beach, and all the teachers freaked out because we went super fast and were bumping around with the waves. I didn't swim at the beach, the waves were really big and there were lots of rocks, but later on we went on to a "natural pool" in the middle of the sea, like a sandbar or something, and really big, there were about five groups there but there was still alot of room. And there were big starfish, and people from our group were amazed with them because some had never seen one before.<br />I started making a sand castle on the beach with Eliza, but we never finished it. On the way back, we went the whole way in the skiffs, racing the other boat. So that was really fun, and we got back at midnight last night. I don't have any pictures because my camera isn't working at the moment, but I do have some sand and shells from the beach.<br /></div>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-35294451021729329412009-05-27T12:21:00.000-07:002009-05-27T13:30:43.289-07:00Ahh it´s been so long since my last post. So much has happened!<br />So every few weeks I go with my friends to the cafe, this place where people go to dance. I haven´t gone recently, but when we go it´s usually empty when we get there and people start getting there when we have to leave.<br />A week after the carnival I went to visit the family of another foreign exchange student who lives in Azua, who´s from Iceland. So I got there and it turned out the the exchange student had gone on an AFS trip for the weekend, so I was just there with the family, which was a little akward, but still fun. We woke up early Saturday morning and headed out to the beach! My first time to the beach after being here for so long!!! Haha. So it wasn´t exactly what I thought... It was a little bit dirty, trash, but the family said that it was cleaner than usual. After we swam a little (and after I got extremely burnt from the sun, thanks to me forgetting to put on sunblock) we ate in one of the restaurants on the beach. We got fresh fish, with fried plantains on the side (with ketchup of course), and it was cool because the fish came entirely whole, head, tail and everything, and we just had to pick out the meat. Then we headed back to their house and showered and took a nap, then we drove out to this mountain called Los Quemados, and drove up and up and up until we got to this little cabinish place where we would stay for the night. There were two big rooms with palm leaf roofs and lots of bunk beds, and there was a kitchen and a big outside dining place, and bathrooms, and it was awesome because it had running water and electricity. They had two solar paneles, so unlike most of the D.R. they have electricity 24-7.<br />Oh, so here in my city, San Juan, we have electricity all day now! It´s nice.<br />So back to the mountain.. We walked a little bit down the road and saw this nice garden that they had for the place...and they had lots of neat plants. I saw a papaya tree! It was awesome.. Here my friends and I like to get together and make papaya juice, and it´s really good with milk and cinnamon.<br />MANGOES!!!!<br />It is totally mango season here. In Alaska mangoes cost bucketloads, but here there are millions of trees along the sides of roads and you can find them nearly everywhere, and free. My host mom said that with the money that a mango costs in the U.S. someone could buy a mango tree here. Or maybe two. So we have a huge basket full of mangoes in my house and I eat two or three a day..... :D and we have a mango tree, too, and a cherry tree and a guanabana tree (please don´t ask me what that is in English) that´s this weird looking green fruit with spiney things, and it´s white on the inside and has seeds that look like black almonds. It´s the strangest thing, and the juice tastes a little bit weird I don´t really like it.<br />Oh, so those of you who have read my other blogs, the soap opera Doña Barbara is over!!!!!!<br />Haha, I kind of stopped watching it for a while but I watched the last few episodes. And Maricela, the 18 year old and Santos, the old guy, end up together after a few years, and Barbara dies 10 years after they get married, but she dies a good person. Lol.<br />Dad came to visit me!!!!!!!! It was way fun. He didn´t have much time here but we showed him around San Juan, and he got to experience the crazy driving factor of Santo Domingo, and what it´s like to drive with a low car on the streets of San Juan. (AHH)<br />I went to get him in Santo Domingo with Ramona, and he rented a car and came to San Juan. He stayed in one of the nicest hotels in the city, then the next day we walked around San Juan a little and ate pastelitoes, haha. Then I decided to show him what it was like to ride in a motoconcho, so we called two and headed for the stadium and walked around a little, then went back to my house. Then we went to my school and Dad met my friends and saw the classrooms and everything. Then we ate lunch, and went to Orquidea´s house to make papaya juice while Dad talked to Orqui´s dad. And then we had to take off to Santo Domingo again, we left at about 4 and got there about 7ish, and one of Ramona´s family friends showed us through the streets of Santo Domingo to a hotel close to the airport. The hotel was amazing! The room was huuuge and the lobby was outside and the restaurant had o.k. food. We woke up early to go to the airport and Dad left at 9ish and I took a super expensive taxi ride to the bus station (the airport is way far away from the station) , where I went back to San Juan.<br />The week after that was Semana Santa (Saint Week, or the week before Easter Sunday), our spring break here. Orquidea, Ramona, Rebeca, Kor Clary and I decided to make a deal with the Il Bocconcino restaurant and rent the pool for the week and open it. It was 50 pesos per person (less than 2 dollars) and we opened the cafeteria and everything, with help from some places around town that donated stuff. On Monday of that week, I got pretty sick in the middle of the night and felt like I was about to pass out. The next day my stomach hurt alot, so we went to the lab to see what was wrong, and it turned out that I had parasites! Two types. Ah, It´s so weird to think that there´s little animals eating away inside of your stomach, but you can´t see them or anything, and it doesn´t feel any different except for the fact that you feel bloated and you stomach hurts alot. So we went to the clinic and they gave me medicine, a pill to take every day after breakfast and dinner for five days, and they went away. Working in the pool was way fun, and I made lots of chocolate chip cookies to sell. We swam a few times too, in the morning before all the people could get there to make the pool dirty. The biggest day we had was Easter Sunday, about 150 people came, and it was crazy working the tables, and on top of all that we had to get up at 5 in the morning because we had two big groups coming in at 6 to eat breakfast then go in the pool. So Saturday we went to bed at 12, got up at 5, and worked nonstop until 9 at night, where we divided up all the money we made from the week then went home. We each made 5,150 pesos. School started Monday, but of course nobody went, and no one was expected to go, so we all went Tuesday, and our teachers were mad at us for not doing homework as always, hahaa.<br />I have my flight back already! I leave early morning on June 27th and get into Anchorage at about 1 AM the next day.<br />One Monday I went to the market in Elias Piña, with Orquidea, her mom Damaris, and Lisandro, a guy who worked for Damaris in the restaurant. Elias Piña is a town that´s really close to the Haitian border, and there are alot of Haitians who sell good stuff cheap. It was kindof crazy walking through the market, but fun. There were lots of little kids selling bags of garlic, and one of them, a little girl, followed us around the entire time, and Damaris was about to taker her to San Juan with her but the little girl was afraid and didn´t want to. That happens alot here, people find homeless or bad treated kids from Haiti and they take them in.<br />I ended up buying shoes there. It was cool because Damaris speaks French, and she was bartering for shoes in French with one of the venders there, because in Haiti they speak Creole (which is similar to French) and French.<br />A few weeks ago, I went with the Sophomore and Freshman classes to Bahìa de las Àguilas (Bay of the Eagles) to go swimming and see everything. The bay is in the southwest corner of the D.R., extremely close to Haiti. It was about a 6 hour bus ride, and we went through a big wet rainforest-y area to a dry desert-y area, and it was really beautiful. In the rainforestish part, the road was right on the coast, and really high up, and it seemed like we were in a movie, with the forest on one side and the highway and the palm trees and the sand below us. And it was mega hot. When we got there, we all hopped in boats and went around a few bends of the coast to get the the bay, which was so pretty and calm, with white sand and bluee water, and not too many people because it´s outside the touristy part of the D.R. We swam and hung out, and I was hanging out with my old host sister Elizabeth, and we were talking and looking in the sand for shells, and I have a bag full of beautiful white shells!!! I´m planning on making necklaces or something out of them.. Then, we saw some girls who had huuuge conch shells, gigantic, so we asked them where they found them and went to get some for ourselves. At first we didn´t see any, but after a bit of looking we found two perfectly clean and pretty pink conch shells, big ones, as if they had been waiting there for us to find them. After that we found more and more, and we ended up with 18 of them, a few of them small and most of them big. When I say big I mean like.. Shoe size. So that was awesome, and we split them up, and I´m taking my 9 back to Alaska :).<br />The next week I went with my class to another beach, but this time on the northeastern side of the island. It´s called Bayahibe, and wasn´t as pretty as the bay but it was nice. And before we went to the beach we stopped at Las Cuevas de las Maravillas (the marvel caves) and went down into them. It was amazing! The caves were huge, completely underground, and hade cave paintings and everything from back in the day. We weren´t allowed to touch the walls, because the grease from our hands can end up destroying them. And it had stalactites and stalagmites and everything, and our guide pointed out different shapes that they made, like skulls and people. And there were bats! Haha. It was extremely humid... The guide said that it was 19 degrees celcius, with 88% humidity. It wasn´t hot, but we were sweating! To get out we took a super slow elevator that they had built without ruining any of the walls, there was a natural hole in the cave. Then, we were going to see El Chavon, this famous school of art, but we passed it by miles and miles and ended up in Higuey, a town that´s way far away from El Chavon, so we just headed to the beach and decided to go there on the way back, but when we finally found it (after turning around about 5 times) it was closed. We had some experienced chauffers! Haha.<br />Ok, so this week and next week are my school´s final exams. Monday we had Math and Religion.. I didn´t have to take the math test because I had a good grade, and for religion we just had to turn in a big report on everything that we had done. Then in the afternoon, I went back to the school (after hanging out at Ramonas house and knocking down mangoes from a tree outside her house. I forgot to mention, green mangoes are good! when they´re not quite ripe and green on the inside, they´re still good!!! and people here eat green mangoes with vinagre and salt...!) and walking to my house in the rain (it´s been raining every afternoon here..i´ll be lucky if it doesnt rain on my walk home) and I took the chemistry test, for the people who had good grades. So I passed!! yay! and i didn´t have to go to school Tuesday because it was the normal chemistry test... And today i had Earth Science and Language. For the first, we wrote a bunch of reasons about why we have to take care of the environment and stuff like that...then the language test was extremely hard. Ha. And tomorrow it´s English and P.E. I doubt my teacher will make me take the English test..and my P.E. teacher told me that I don´t have to take his test because I have a good grade. ! So that´s about it..We´ll I´m sure there´s a ton of stuff that I forgot to mention, but oh well. And I couldn´t post pics because my camera doesn´t want to connect to this computer. Another time! Something like that always happens...ahhHa!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-60519290871796547502009-03-06T12:24:00.000-08:002009-03-06T13:19:38.934-08:00More Carnaval!!<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTaft5VpBVnXMNJMuIxlyOCLizxRaXCpayUAHk1-PbG6x9IzPzzdKM_d631NcnN7p98qsCtUGVtJBIoTv9LUsNgll7CaaDiM3GKKu4YxatehIRa-MoZPog9T3J8MgER03g6aMtOwl9mc/s1600-h/SDC13494.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTaft5VpBVnXMNJMuIxlyOCLizxRaXCpayUAHk1-PbG6x9IzPzzdKM_d631NcnN7p98qsCtUGVtJBIoTv9LUsNgll7CaaDiM3GKKu4YxatehIRa-MoZPog9T3J8MgER03g6aMtOwl9mc/s320/SDC13494.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310186814535523490" border="0" /></a>Julissa and me in Ilda´s place<br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmg7q3ya0svOfxVEZBmY2QACb58_M-YTNrdBBRlsd_GUXK1F0alljoIcBktxoXiNGTICYMjipuuP-Brx_EUX78pC3xCnPnQPqO7wYA4mKZKNhRKEn_YA-DPvf8JN49RSZ0N174kKYGYQ/s1600-h/SDC13503.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmg7q3ya0svOfxVEZBmY2QACb58_M-YTNrdBBRlsd_GUXK1F0alljoIcBktxoXiNGTICYMjipuuP-Brx_EUX78pC3xCnPnQPqO7wYA4mKZKNhRKEn_YA-DPvf8JN49RSZ0N174kKYGYQ/s320/SDC13503.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310186805331695266" border="0" /></a>Orquidea and me<br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbmz4wa_ppJeZBL9ZIliSvXfy4kVX8ev98_N0a8ecVb_P4EuwiNwuESBIygBVlbRHnASgFjJ4AxleKR52FTuMOq1BpL55Jy4FvVwsssNlxMnlUteblE_h4LXZcIRIRdtkcnA6DGBDPkCs/s1600-h/SDC13505.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbmz4wa_ppJeZBL9ZIliSvXfy4kVX8ev98_N0a8ecVb_P4EuwiNwuESBIygBVlbRHnASgFjJ4AxleKR52FTuMOq1BpL55Jy4FvVwsssNlxMnlUteblE_h4LXZcIRIRdtkcnA6DGBDPkCs/s320/SDC13505.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310186800671609522" border="0" /></a>A street in San Juan - notice all the motorcycles and motos!<br /></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqjLBUIoR0R9Tunu0AJ6F1ozUBqE7tPQQSO6Vmam7aiwMnHwMfAaAmxAKjFqmp7rjn9owcvX0VsxVxOnwV_wGD-0pD4UDKmwKGHaCNWhyphenhyphenSHNrwJo9f0qyOE-IF9iUYKu460WYM2OFJPQ/s1600-h/SDC13516.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqjLBUIoR0R9Tunu0AJ6F1ozUBqE7tPQQSO6Vmam7aiwMnHwMfAaAmxAKjFqmp7rjn9owcvX0VsxVxOnwV_wGD-0pD4UDKmwKGHaCNWhyphenhyphenSHNrwJo9f0qyOE-IF9iUYKu460WYM2OFJPQ/s320/SDC13516.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310186792544953266" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfD7moJAcGCIRYrWOukUeYi3hPD356kmUZbANBa5XYSHHMe6AuE_DNSQ5Q8Ztyhn9y75fVHI_cDK3Stc-YQ3RrRzPTdcPgq3csxn_fXX6E5DaLybwYKTdpGgjwVX9i67FgJWMEwF2P7r0/s1600-h/SDC13504.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfD7moJAcGCIRYrWOukUeYi3hPD356kmUZbANBa5XYSHHMe6AuE_DNSQ5Q8Ztyhn9y75fVHI_cDK3Stc-YQ3RrRzPTdcPgq3csxn_fXX6E5DaLybwYKTdpGgjwVX9i67FgJWMEwF2P7r0/s320/SDC13504.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310182689402391250" border="0" /></a>A funny umbrella that was in the street...so we took a picture<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbkjmuxc41kFRDLsCJUkRvkOJT0rH6P_cfX7mRKTEwc5K2VglTBlRnRUaQIeo_Cv5kZcZcMF7ac0Mst_iJN0HVlRY9kj0cT3xkGnBFaAR2MpW3b45jBANMmY5lQ2wXc8XsnCDPU3c1C0/s1600-h/SDC13492.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbkjmuxc41kFRDLsCJUkRvkOJT0rH6P_cfX7mRKTEwc5K2VglTBlRnRUaQIeo_Cv5kZcZcMF7ac0Mst_iJN0HVlRY9kj0cT3xkGnBFaAR2MpW3b45jBANMmY5lQ2wXc8XsnCDPU3c1C0/s320/SDC13492.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310182680722673074" border="0" /></a>In Ilda´s place, the bakery where we go to eat cake and pastelitoes and pizza haha<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhde0shEqSehmdLoDwNRdxtE1fOlAlmTztn6LKUb96NIgNiJLw25BgLXZrIblYZIO2aPW-A1hne_nJ1WjMBglg8xQRbTn1Jp_mYIw-W_722Xu6qXPD3cl7yWQ-NCmSbT9BKrji8R0tYuE4/s1600-h/SDC13491.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhde0shEqSehmdLoDwNRdxtE1fOlAlmTztn6LKUb96NIgNiJLw25BgLXZrIblYZIO2aPW-A1hne_nJ1WjMBglg8xQRbTn1Jp_mYIw-W_722Xu6qXPD3cl7yWQ-NCmSbT9BKrji8R0tYuE4/s320/SDC13491.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310182673511963970" border="0" /></a>Ahh ok so the thing that he has in his hand is what all the boys use to hit the girls with on their butts...i still have a bruise on my thigh..and they´re hard and they hit hard too! I´m not exactly sure why, but they do it..and whenever they hit you you have to run up against a wall or find a guy to defend you...<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2a-FiFKs9FVfQtvbqnx9f6gJ-pZkwkJHiBcm_jU-HZnweOKlbHphgQdZcj8usUa_t84srkaaXhjU1BpxOgrn5SyzzUlhmmMgZLhwAFdhiJTObeZkHk6K-wLfdU6PAkFwXWJuGznbHFjA/s1600-h/SDC13473.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2a-FiFKs9FVfQtvbqnx9f6gJ-pZkwkJHiBcm_jU-HZnweOKlbHphgQdZcj8usUa_t84srkaaXhjU1BpxOgrn5SyzzUlhmmMgZLhwAFdhiJTObeZkHk6K-wLfdU6PAkFwXWJuGznbHFjA/s320/SDC13473.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310182665046604850" border="0" /></a><br />Monopoly!!! in Spanish!!! I was playing with Orquidea, Ramona, Jimito, Julissa, and Felix Andres<br /></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGb0UrBBMY1Qjh8wlHWunK-SV1p0jqePCU1h6Kuqg5bUrfbJbiYKaLrn9PEBu3x0Veqgq2uKRjugXLuezS7acLEYiPEfO69MXozbGPmW59zKNZKX9h91ReNk2BVtKqKwRkn2f24SMxENs/s1600-h/SDC13512.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGb0UrBBMY1Qjh8wlHWunK-SV1p0jqePCU1h6Kuqg5bUrfbJbiYKaLrn9PEBu3x0Veqgq2uKRjugXLuezS7acLEYiPEfO69MXozbGPmW59zKNZKX9h91ReNk2BVtKqKwRkn2f24SMxENs/s320/SDC13512.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310182658815119970" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKPEYnKGLTPpKZpuWHPxe1hZ_zV_I5miPOkgoeqPjzmb8vA1pKuYpe3dePbycUVhmut_EveIRhcRrVURYm0X6mQDHW6orzsZh9Maqds6kAlVrY_gpPGVcYEgBoXB8rxxMgcSOenM-GcUs/s1600-h/SDC13514.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKPEYnKGLTPpKZpuWHPxe1hZ_zV_I5miPOkgoeqPjzmb8vA1pKuYpe3dePbycUVhmut_EveIRhcRrVURYm0X6mQDHW6orzsZh9Maqds6kAlVrY_gpPGVcYEgBoXB8rxxMgcSOenM-GcUs/s320/SDC13514.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310179873935086178" border="0" /></a>Hamburger stand!!!! There´s lots of hamburger-hot dog-pastelito stands on the corners haha and they´re pretty good too.<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAqIkMu9UHXvA6lPKUS-r5w-fZTRxmuHPNVEVemGApRien9d9KgYRGYKWUBC9cQZX72OJX7drN2GhQzVhKBUz6QH7xRx52UJkTvJFEtDq8ycdj45KmVHvKbNa-ACdD9cLOUCcpOVzSAxk/s1600-h/SDC13513.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAqIkMu9UHXvA6lPKUS-r5w-fZTRxmuHPNVEVemGApRien9d9KgYRGYKWUBC9cQZX72OJX7drN2GhQzVhKBUz6QH7xRx52UJkTvJFEtDq8ycdj45KmVHvKbNa-ACdD9cLOUCcpOVzSAxk/s320/SDC13513.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310179862688215778" border="0" /></a>El Carnaval...sponsored by Presidente.. ahhh theres always something about presidente here. It´s the Dominican´s favorite beer..<br /></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiU30HBNG82GpffOlIrYZlNGF1kQM6koCfxZcGrT13Wu-EPzM8EvTdvv0mGdMYWfLzvc0cp-tP9CJBBrKxEQ718vpQDaIXaEqEOjKKhJ40qxDkG1c5DmitzpfIU-N19xVGMGLcJD2jeB0/s1600-h/SDC13519.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiU30HBNG82GpffOlIrYZlNGF1kQM6koCfxZcGrT13Wu-EPzM8EvTdvv0mGdMYWfLzvc0cp-tP9CJBBrKxEQ718vpQDaIXaEqEOjKKhJ40qxDkG1c5DmitzpfIU-N19xVGMGLcJD2jeB0/s320/SDC13519.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310179858135437042" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9Y4rBkvIEtCONvVoHyOFlfZA1eZKhXIukGqDb5vy5OXELZR-0U7U7X-O8DRrZ3UKU1D3IpNScZasi_8mFKLxe_KM7hiNYVh5hOn6UnCwSw38ZHBVcCFiRNjle35Ifg1WHu35j7NLuiY/s1600-h/SDC13524.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9Y4rBkvIEtCONvVoHyOFlfZA1eZKhXIukGqDb5vy5OXELZR-0U7U7X-O8DRrZ3UKU1D3IpNScZasi_8mFKLxe_KM7hiNYVh5hOn6UnCwSw38ZHBVcCFiRNjle35Ifg1WHu35j7NLuiY/s320/SDC13524.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310179849406690642" border="0" /></a>in Parque Duarte<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe8TmwmhCdYcbHlMfgSEtOdHgFCZP4B4_CgCLomuGTBGdjI0-Yz_r9dSyHsQgGORWklpj4290JHd_5dQREgq8nf0zxLudoYW_INCvnk5oWZdHfZ-2-vZG3c-70O34SPrd4D4SaIsJ6Ds/s1600-h/SDC13527.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe8TmwmhCdYcbHlMfgSEtOdHgFCZP4B4_CgCLomuGTBGdjI0-Yz_r9dSyHsQgGORWklpj4290JHd_5dQREgq8nf0zxLudoYW_INCvnk5oWZdHfZ-2-vZG3c-70O34SPrd4D4SaIsJ6Ds/s320/SDC13527.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310179846890877394" border="0" /></a>The arc of San Juan... in parque Duarte, next to Caribe Tours...for Christmas it was all decorated and pretty<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZEoeqto5_Dfnjo7kiVNVQudg0oepJaS2zqrVFEkO0j4hkAYYagu_baHxKv_-s0aQ8y0Wcja5T4jjDxGxLLe4QYwRHVPTciryName54r3saTcaCed1c9DCjHWLiNWTmibjLlKHUHnYEjw/s1600-h/SDC13655.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZEoeqto5_Dfnjo7kiVNVQudg0oepJaS2zqrVFEkO0j4hkAYYagu_baHxKv_-s0aQ8y0Wcja5T4jjDxGxLLe4QYwRHVPTciryName54r3saTcaCed1c9DCjHWLiNWTmibjLlKHUHnYEjw/s320/SDC13655.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310177696128397346" border="0" /></a>Lechosa!!!!<br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwePlzSWkwQ6WjQhyFVpm0ApWVmo5-Uh4ImhVu_Q4TW4IHxcUYwxdFGOTXotLhZL9idcnePuNq34cEpOD1hiU3rBWlDmfkpwbuQXVTvogw_M0q7wgJsl96oJLMf4lHxQLLIK5TJ9QHrhk/s1600-h/SDC13558.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwePlzSWkwQ6WjQhyFVpm0ApWVmo5-Uh4ImhVu_Q4TW4IHxcUYwxdFGOTXotLhZL9idcnePuNq34cEpOD1hiU3rBWlDmfkpwbuQXVTvogw_M0q7wgJsl96oJLMf4lHxQLLIK5TJ9QHrhk/s320/SDC13558.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310177686068893058" border="0" /></a>Mascaras...you almost cant see them but they´re the black looking figures<br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSJ5ye7oGRoMQdv7NMLk1XAlMRVjceGGcNotRFSzQpwF2fraBQQGpz0L3x4mzT_jpKR27VG8S2-yJtQJfXWmPNKogS55la1aWGhd5Zg8JK8eGevnmMYLI6PzuFkWcOvZBkysYx0m-UY0Q/s1600-h/SDC13553.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXIp2sstJQwGrnY5kJKYPxk3F1oiCjPGqVjkrMErHUUB71q-jkiSj5kbzc7MLuL8mAjR0eW1b5XstFaFlzMXjkZ6AvwlEavuQ-cizmT_T3hZoKnwHe6z47-pWXUOIcPM7WyvX1qZ55A64/s320/SDC13610.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309831844631103442" border="0" /></a><br />The parade on Saturday...fun! Lots of different groups, this was one of them with twin dolls....and of course they had to do inappropriate things with their twin dolls...hahaha.(top right)<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC4Xhg5oYEfM3Eks0BFrhWIgQJR-LT-_wNwafMNeLGyCyeS5zDpsubWMz_BGiyTUay3-Bu-7CORHy6MC2MQserOOBgvclVGOIcdtV3EdBNnD9A69ZNlWusTled9yHBCkSiyK5eQZJ3PYY/s1600-h/SDC13612.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC4Xhg5oYEfM3Eks0BFrhWIgQJR-LT-_wNwafMNeLGyCyeS5zDpsubWMz_BGiyTUay3-Bu-7CORHy6MC2MQserOOBgvclVGOIcdtV3EdBNnD9A69ZNlWusTled9yHBCkSiyK5eQZJ3PYY/s320/SDC13612.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309831837185358146" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewpS9pFfTV3T_eAmbmf6mAoYDljBWjs_dfcZHZbfKDvzz7Ug0yEN7hUJflKREz1I5B0Xt584eXhe15Z-9xZ2zN8WVf4252IKc7MXHgJ6ipdeKEycU4gfJVcwVCrQ7-xenIb2B71lMDQQ/s1600-h/SDC13616.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewpS9pFfTV3T_eAmbmf6mAoYDljBWjs_dfcZHZbfKDvzz7Ug0yEN7hUJflKREz1I5B0Xt584eXhe15Z-9xZ2zN8WVf4252IKc7MXHgJ6ipdeKEycU4gfJVcwVCrQ7-xenIb2B71lMDQQ/s320/SDC13616.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309831827354276434" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTxcruFSDoKcJaqzvIwqIiGbbrtTL4q-cr0Tk7OeaZnoXGeK9yDlF768NfdiT33UVESMvK2wd6r6R3BxhyphenhyphenSlPFRo2i0YoptYIVOMAXs_kwdVF-IJQgltdhX7K-Rp_HMqkBMhN7wiOLPY/s1600-h/SDC13614.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTxcruFSDoKcJaqzvIwqIiGbbrtTL4q-cr0Tk7OeaZnoXGeK9yDlF768NfdiT33UVESMvK2wd6r6R3BxhyphenhyphenSlPFRo2i0YoptYIVOMAXs_kwdVF-IJQgltdhX7K-Rp_HMqkBMhN7wiOLPY/s320/SDC13614.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309831822303759586" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ptSc-b7JC7CiC4RYr-BYV3m8cIiUDpnmIKlZF8hr18qJBrlpz1ijVj2S-1G1xo-7RObXfBC47WrUTQRC6hLTLwdcnjM_0p_fH1w-beXF_Xmt_OlpxE_owf3eOSOkECa-DAlf5jO2mj4/s1600-h/SDC13620.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ptSc-b7JC7CiC4RYr-BYV3m8cIiUDpnmIKlZF8hr18qJBrlpz1ijVj2S-1G1xo-7RObXfBC47WrUTQRC6hLTLwdcnjM_0p_fH1w-beXF_Xmt_OlpxE_owf3eOSOkECa-DAlf5jO2mj4/s320/SDC13620.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309831812538454210" border="0" /></a><br />These costumes were the coolest!! (up) they were attatched to people's arms and legs, so when the people walked, it looked like the big skeleton thing was walking...i have a video and i tried to put it up but there was an error...and i have lots more but they take alot of time so i'll put them up some other time..<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZa7KHGTcVleOrxmhM0_aSgzp6NcXk-wCXktMEFaHJnOyRkyMxAG_HC4nSvmMthtc2T_zIOt1MLhrabLgMi1lWDiCtt8UIRj42lfwKzS08_ftEGGMqVAzzzOqiaoMWWuysr5DzGR1w_eQ/s1600-h/SDC13621.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZa7KHGTcVleOrxmhM0_aSgzp6NcXk-wCXktMEFaHJnOyRkyMxAG_HC4nSvmMthtc2T_zIOt1MLhrabLgMi1lWDiCtt8UIRj42lfwKzS08_ftEGGMqVAzzzOqiaoMWWuysr5DzGR1w_eQ/s320/SDC13621.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309828283980971938" border="0" /></a><br />Los Indios :)<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg72IhLyjYVqbCopTnz1_2m1NiM8gk42EY-OGdyxJId0CyD4M2Vtkldc1rc0MNM_FjgvmkpjWnq_n5kBnjPyjCoLZA3FoxDuCosxGJkf7tVFbMJMWu7VFdte6_nLGCYUdlEPRbPmxTXRE/s1600-h/SDC13625.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg72IhLyjYVqbCopTnz1_2m1NiM8gk42EY-OGdyxJId0CyD4M2Vtkldc1rc0MNM_FjgvmkpjWnq_n5kBnjPyjCoLZA3FoxDuCosxGJkf7tVFbMJMWu7VFdte6_nLGCYUdlEPRbPmxTXRE/s320/SDC13625.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309828283203572082" border="0" /></a>a blue diablo<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcymgGLf0kegKnRyg6eoNja_B_3nO2d3La-bxGqYRvMJREuxg3-enrB-Oqa37tPH6ZHgiIZuOUjfrFWlpOFyE3J1W0_zd_B1mMxuCEFDIFBwZqKVrCKipcI63bE71o6J_3uUA94_mDQk/s1600-h/SDC13627.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcymgGLf0kegKnRyg6eoNja_B_3nO2d3La-bxGqYRvMJREuxg3-enrB-Oqa37tPH6ZHgiIZuOUjfrFWlpOFyE3J1W0_zd_B1mMxuCEFDIFBwZqKVrCKipcI63bE71o6J_3uUA94_mDQk/s320/SDC13627.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309828272662039570" border="0" /></a><br />yes, those are guys...the pic explains it all. :)<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOSQszrpTtKOIzAiWHNY_EeE76tEa38YD9PJJnbGaJSA2Xm_Bejek8wOUaoPefmw6n_qlmG6FnUULfb4HwcKn7anLdzS5dFxZynbzLX886aw-dilg468INHGZVLu4W3zcgBR2w4mKOlY/s1600-h/SDC13633.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOSQszrpTtKOIzAiWHNY_EeE76tEa38YD9PJJnbGaJSA2Xm_Bejek8wOUaoPefmw6n_qlmG6FnUULfb4HwcKn7anLdzS5dFxZynbzLX886aw-dilg468INHGZVLu4W3zcgBR2w4mKOlY/s320/SDC13633.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309828263758291138" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh35xIIF7_hrhLWtJGMLal1a2zyAYNRYEdBGoKsQ5xZXERCrMsLMPaQeugHxJ9zFMdtVCBrZxjBJ42WO7KgjExeVIBpMYMa8yzrL1kbgAll4xKrifq0Lxx1ldzlDsBSLuvVWcgNIL5wgaY/s1600-h/SDC13638.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh35xIIF7_hrhLWtJGMLal1a2zyAYNRYEdBGoKsQ5xZXERCrMsLMPaQeugHxJ9zFMdtVCBrZxjBJ42WO7KgjExeVIBpMYMa8yzrL1kbgAll4xKrifq0Lxx1ldzlDsBSLuvVWcgNIL5wgaY/s320/SDC13638.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309828256674213010" border="0" /></a><br />Ramona and me...with a skeleton :) haha that was a sweet costume<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbySyrlLRv4q-41-aqzszApxx5o7rkBD3hyMy7GWPzJ5Keeklmr8hYFCJaPdroDZiZLtqhoA9_VVkazswmuGrK_S_Y5k_b3ysBhOoZ3BHeUYdqC0h-e0mSNwBK8o2c401nyENMJ4nRuzE/s1600-h/SDC13639.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbySyrlLRv4q-41-aqzszApxx5o7rkBD3hyMy7GWPzJ5Keeklmr8hYFCJaPdroDZiZLtqhoA9_VVkazswmuGrK_S_Y5k_b3ysBhOoZ3BHeUYdqC0h-e0mSNwBK8o2c401nyENMJ4nRuzE/s320/SDC13639.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309813844035067618" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYZVgKLwvnRa2uuHMRdKyeTaIiDvbRU_Kp8mh0R7LcGgGh76f5xdljXvw3Ey8ie0W3O-ca4omy3PyRJoo9a0jD_IVMPjr4Sf_ZfXhgH_crFdycHIJjr2Ecstcli2AKcqlyuk7pBpRgcjo/s1600-h/SDC13640.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYZVgKLwvnRa2uuHMRdKyeTaIiDvbRU_Kp8mh0R7LcGgGh76f5xdljXvw3Ey8ie0W3O-ca4omy3PyRJoo9a0jD_IVMPjr4Sf_ZfXhgH_crFdycHIJjr2Ecstcli2AKcqlyuk7pBpRgcjo/s320/SDC13640.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309813837554091010" border="0" /></a><br />haha you almost can't see him...but this costume it made out of strips of plastic pasted onto clothing...pretty sweet :)<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />yes that's a guy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwSh8M4aOUCR69cbFWuC12XDXqEFQBS2jPRkDTkB5ONkIKJmVna2qxacJp7O0fmBxC4BHFl9w5ZjxUcr85-irCDkFVCb91Ko0VEYQWTdxN2pu69Hxk-6yHLS9CEPOFYWqxoOxOHH9D8U/s1600-h/SDC13644.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtwSh8M4aOUCR69cbFWuC12XDXqEFQBS2jPRkDTkB5ONkIKJmVna2qxacJp7O0fmBxC4BHFl9w5ZjxUcr85-irCDkFVCb91Ko0VEYQWTdxN2pu69Hxk-6yHLS9CEPOFYWqxoOxOHH9D8U/s320/SDC13644.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309813827918977746" border="0" /></a><br />Los Brujos!!! the witches..they were in the parade, and their float won..it was pretty sweet. except he's smoking a cigar...eew.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAVa5lRacTAtOrEulq7F6S3YJr58zeFIi991silj_RX3j_4o2OHLKjL2YLKsmPI-1XsROzAgpZw1u4wVGKdK7fN4-sFX5yCf42E7Pgx1em8ob2VgXQIn6M8V9KkyApIS3guWzcWswdsUI/s1600-h/SDC13645.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAVa5lRacTAtOrEulq7F6S3YJr58zeFIi991silj_RX3j_4o2OHLKjL2YLKsmPI-1XsROzAgpZw1u4wVGKdK7fN4-sFX5yCf42E7Pgx1em8ob2VgXQIn6M8V9KkyApIS3guWzcWswdsUI/s320/SDC13645.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309813823898507506" border="0" /></a>I've got alot more pics and videos for later!!!!! =D<br /></div>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-80613958878157813052009-02-23T11:43:00.000-08:002009-02-23T12:47:17.956-08:00<div align="center"> </div><div align="left">Helloo! Ok, so yesterday was the Carnaval for little kids. The Carnaval is a celebration in all of Febuary, where people dress up crazy, like devils or dragons or monsters, and go out into the streets whipping the ground and going in parades.. Yesterday I went to the one for kids that they had here in San Juan in one of the parks.. There were lots of kids with random costumes, masks, spider man suites, and everything.. It was funny. And of course there were lots of little boys playing with whips.. Which isnt really very safe.. Especially in crowded areas. And there´s lots of teenage boys running around with these hard balloon-like things on the ends of strings, hitting girls in their butts and backs..and yes they hit me about four times! And hard, too! And when they don´t stop, you have to run. This Friday, the 27th, is the normal Carnaval..which should be even bigger and better. But I´ll probably get hit more.. Haha. The Carnaval in La Vega, a city in the northern part of the D.R., is known to be the best in all the Carribbean, with huge parades and fairs and everything.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwsr8v9vzwOeBC9xjcub0Rkq-N-E6_T9eZbhyjavS8WNbvTR_W9AkJpScQDua9s6btzABcSoZKoJgMbHmi9FGN4-ipOEAIAcmbcMJLv17-RKKZQBehZGG-h-n1BvnBkSpa_lIc1ncbr8/s1600-h/SDC13447.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306093925800839858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwsr8v9vzwOeBC9xjcub0Rkq-N-E6_T9eZbhyjavS8WNbvTR_W9AkJpScQDua9s6btzABcSoZKoJgMbHmi9FGN4-ipOEAIAcmbcMJLv17-RKKZQBehZGG-h-n1BvnBkSpa_lIc1ncbr8/s320/SDC13447.JPG" border="0" /></a> Sheila and me yesterday in the Carnaval for kids<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMAzRtaP7XFfQyqSrJ6Y8PVa1RZC53MJmEJjrzyhDjD8jFqBvPPtzZvDDu5ovksDpNB6e4muqosGva5pKCb3nm5amAOiRiytG_x-0psvoofNymz8I_bhkCGXrSFC3xg17Hm-HZtyqmvro/s1600-h/SDC13446.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306093917724896178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMAzRtaP7XFfQyqSrJ6Y8PVa1RZC53MJmEJjrzyhDjD8jFqBvPPtzZvDDu5ovksDpNB6e4muqosGva5pKCb3nm5amAOiRiytG_x-0psvoofNymz8I_bhkCGXrSFC3xg17Hm-HZtyqmvro/s320/SDC13446.JPG" border="0" /></a> Ramona, Carolina, and me..<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCrptBsGQf_gdknPat2C_HyVw6j_DklavjlUZPBxq9Slfm8yT7fgYfLT4QKlluODqUmVvm58-Lj9WFzRnbA-G67o_caPXwi7fHNo1RQtm913rOi5AZdDvL2OvP-2Ucd70kBHccRQxmuh4/s1600-h/SDC13438.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306093911969971666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCrptBsGQf_gdknPat2C_HyVw6j_DklavjlUZPBxq9Slfm8yT7fgYfLT4QKlluODqUmVvm58-Lj9WFzRnbA-G67o_caPXwi7fHNo1RQtm913rOi5AZdDvL2OvP-2Ucd70kBHccRQxmuh4/s320/SDC13438.JPG" border="0" /></a> The San Juan capital building..<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07VMtZttP9GzDf6wSTTJ8ZPFv6h4xhmX94Xvx5wqgmn_biHIo02iMsGxmn7IhXEVmcQF5bqcFzTdcJN-_3Uh8B9AmAZMNtYKdNPPbv94Z3GURu7OZuSh5gIrk3YASuNw1E5lT2CtwJ3Y/s1600-h/SDC13436.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306091904065549826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07VMtZttP9GzDf6wSTTJ8ZPFv6h4xhmX94Xvx5wqgmn_biHIo02iMsGxmn7IhXEVmcQF5bqcFzTdcJN-_3Uh8B9AmAZMNtYKdNPPbv94Z3GURu7OZuSh5gIrk3YASuNw1E5lT2CtwJ3Y/s320/SDC13436.JPG" border="0" /></a> El Carnaval! A typical costume.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBodoC2uheYBCLQbIEewI3nAHuohfmc3vWCeFB7mRmkY7bsDX5oUwTqCLUvps5SbmTZZ0wxmUl_PF5JrL_OZQR_-9cnfVUhNkauH3gmZCgUizxXikzfP-N_mQDnB0fX4WSGWYJh4b13VU/s1600-h/SDC13434.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306091899178246018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBodoC2uheYBCLQbIEewI3nAHuohfmc3vWCeFB7mRmkY7bsDX5oUwTqCLUvps5SbmTZZ0wxmUl_PF5JrL_OZQR_-9cnfVUhNkauH3gmZCgUizxXikzfP-N_mQDnB0fX4WSGWYJh4b13VU/s320/SDC13434.JPG" border="0" /></a> Haha, when I try and take a picture of one person </div><div>everyone crowds in!<br /></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9FPoBxdNIrMGv80ZT4Isqvwdx5OlTLcF1qKB0SCpAL5X65qow05bceLfWQH4nyFS5u80Uss3BMXSOrejz11EdldE1gBtn_4ksdYzHlXmc2fxu96UYoZ-dqDJLpMPM9WxaPSCtU63fTFQ/s1600-h/SDC13433.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306091899680034322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9FPoBxdNIrMGv80ZT4Isqvwdx5OlTLcF1qKB0SCpAL5X65qow05bceLfWQH4nyFS5u80Uss3BMXSOrejz11EdldE1gBtn_4ksdYzHlXmc2fxu96UYoZ-dqDJLpMPM9WxaPSCtU63fTFQ/s320/SDC13433.JPG" border="0" /></a> El Carnaval for kids, in Duarte Park<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvmXXnl4J2ZCR6ypS3G_cLbKHk5FlGLJVvsVNvwqOtTIDSJ3LevxHX2zRTINZrSiMxgLC8zylpQb6Xj5RReqiy3RnbOiZnp9XgUU-4ajFvQDRUpkjfXR1IcE_NfSxvOTUmUY4IIyp7yo/s1600-h/SDC13432.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306091891619624210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikvmXXnl4J2ZCR6ypS3G_cLbKHk5FlGLJVvsVNvwqOtTIDSJ3LevxHX2zRTINZrSiMxgLC8zylpQb6Xj5RReqiy3RnbOiZnp9XgUU-4ajFvQDRUpkjfXR1IcE_NfSxvOTUmUY4IIyp7yo/s320/SDC13432.JPG" border="0" /></a> Kids playing with whips..fun!....<br /></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnnGaSy0AxpU2tC0aa6UuXf_WFZZMKewWj7T2emk1S8W_cDEK0jdoM_zAEMiTQz9sxZoZdcGweRTK1mA-YOAV9SqhRCrC_-kmUzt1iJdwnfgqXanD0BwaaAkuCMARPaUZ-XXInVEYA3Ro/s1600-h/SDC13423.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306091889260685874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnnGaSy0AxpU2tC0aa6UuXf_WFZZMKewWj7T2emk1S8W_cDEK0jdoM_zAEMiTQz9sxZoZdcGweRTK1mA-YOAV9SqhRCrC_-kmUzt1iJdwnfgqXanD0BwaaAkuCMARPaUZ-XXInVEYA3Ro/s320/SDC13423.JPG" border="0" /></a> La Avenida - a big avenue on the north side of town</div><div>and it´s really long and has alot of these apartments</div><div>that all look the same on both sides<br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsWNrP5PvzyqGiLvXz2kBpK_cfgkJCxdLdsY9eJTrFWlFIF9FXW-33bWWgn2i0oSlJL24s179dVIPkGUgSFYv5LwKDqq-qf5-NJBP24RVuHECP0ZllhQplbr_K0tcDrYAOXMxBEphPgU/s1600-h/SDC13419.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306089302402213010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsWNrP5PvzyqGiLvXz2kBpK_cfgkJCxdLdsY9eJTrFWlFIF9FXW-33bWWgn2i0oSlJL24s179dVIPkGUgSFYv5LwKDqq-qf5-NJBP24RVuHECP0ZllhQplbr_K0tcDrYAOXMxBEphPgU/s320/SDC13419.JPG" border="0" /></a> A rice factory!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP2AapMoy-twJX2ob8Cv70IfwUWpdwg0y9SxJ4iniU9-8bye_aSoiqqMP__Ye6CFNdnSyZlaq-iNcEajS8or2AOkTGqC7KQHaDhj4RukgX9Ux7A4GoPsJVQvL3IEEexV6MKoI8hd4iVCc/s1600-h/SDC13414.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306089291802466082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP2AapMoy-twJX2ob8Cv70IfwUWpdwg0y9SxJ4iniU9-8bye_aSoiqqMP__Ye6CFNdnSyZlaq-iNcEajS8or2AOkTGqC7KQHaDhj4RukgX9Ux7A4GoPsJVQvL3IEEexV6MKoI8hd4iVCc/s320/SDC13414.JPG" border="0" /></a>In the campo! It´s extremely pretty there.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFz3sA3miSNyMT8RFOOMEyZKOQuE4lRU2BI2QQlevNwvjlb_bp6nIzhwLztQn8RIe4TmS2I2cWm6a-Zw-fbD0FPgTSCy1Z-yxazDzlO44B-JiYw0JZS67nzEVVHG0iDlR6fk8QHipM_WE/s1600-h/SDC13408.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306089286384488706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFz3sA3miSNyMT8RFOOMEyZKOQuE4lRU2BI2QQlevNwvjlb_bp6nIzhwLztQn8RIe4TmS2I2cWm6a-Zw-fbD0FPgTSCy1Z-yxazDzlO44B-JiYw0JZS67nzEVVHG0iDlR6fk8QHipM_WE/s320/SDC13408.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYePhfa0LEJBmIet55IOaNvWc9lJf6iGSGBtJAJnfxaoK6PRl5Bvz5m-AhSio0JXc3IMDSHpdCRFoGDIrYyZpnIn6F3GO7U6psV7bFV7svZtGX1VSkldbzng_B_4zxwLmLe16sX4sCnU/s1600-h/SDC13410.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306089278030848098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYePhfa0LEJBmIet55IOaNvWc9lJf6iGSGBtJAJnfxaoK6PRl5Bvz5m-AhSio0JXc3IMDSHpdCRFoGDIrYyZpnIn6F3GO7U6psV7bFV7svZtGX1VSkldbzng_B_4zxwLmLe16sX4sCnU/s320/SDC13410.JPG" border="0" /></a> Normal houses in a village in the campo<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZGoNVyMwllMCWzYMKjrg0prfLqsBflnjZFa_bMV4Za7-KPlOhaaIRSXz5GMHSOHXZbJOyhZllw8Tw4JDacMfcdJ_kzK2mV0KTRfC8sC3YTQ1w2QPJfdYaHwNPmjU3dX5A6jKvMtusFU/s1600-h/SDC13407.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306089269733075538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZGoNVyMwllMCWzYMKjrg0prfLqsBflnjZFa_bMV4Za7-KPlOhaaIRSXz5GMHSOHXZbJOyhZllw8Tw4JDacMfcdJ_kzK2mV0KTRfC8sC3YTQ1w2QPJfdYaHwNPmjU3dX5A6jKvMtusFU/s320/SDC13407.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQS-DV_dWZ8U1FuDZtz6ksW_XhKf0qrpLlWwGExaG6F274TrSOHTDRp4lLni2XULpMyDrSNnIXjrU0pGgywRpvocrh1rtfKBprXfPgIF4Ybd6Irfa0zWIkqRAuws4nbR7hEw9Teax78BE/s1600-h/SDC13403.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306087107088412338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQS-DV_dWZ8U1FuDZtz6ksW_XhKf0qrpLlWwGExaG6F274TrSOHTDRp4lLni2XULpMyDrSNnIXjrU0pGgywRpvocrh1rtfKBprXfPgIF4Ybd6Irfa0zWIkqRAuws4nbR7hEw9Teax78BE/s320/SDC13403.JPG" border="0" /></a> It´s really pretty!<br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDPrSh5DY6JQvRaqI0zSzaglmTHccPXt_enKhqeRwZe7yN3wC69u2qMnpk92aoHohuvnugUzPPISwvTOq9pzGfuHufpWCY_WNxstQ0hHPoqGqBNil21xMVF7ec811QilQlq3ANcqXLD4/s1600-h/SDC13399.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306087104718525906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDPrSh5DY6JQvRaqI0zSzaglmTHccPXt_enKhqeRwZe7yN3wC69u2qMnpk92aoHohuvnugUzPPISwvTOq9pzGfuHufpWCY_WNxstQ0hHPoqGqBNil21xMVF7ec811QilQlq3ANcqXLD4/s320/SDC13399.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_v4_E_ZeKr56h2L6cSQGn8k2KLuTFPOy1KROZqXDocENX05DtLpRu4Xgfub2NzSK65xcK4GzAzqri0Ih2eMAGu_c99inwjZwArWSnV5rxxzt3Mcm884VujpGaE9H_MC4vcvUN6dHf6h4/s1600-h/SDC13397.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306087096516832178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_v4_E_ZeKr56h2L6cSQGn8k2KLuTFPOy1KROZqXDocENX05DtLpRu4Xgfub2NzSK65xcK4GzAzqri0Ih2eMAGu_c99inwjZwArWSnV5rxxzt3Mcm884VujpGaE9H_MC4vcvUN6dHf6h4/s320/SDC13397.JPG" border="0" /></a> Antony, Andrina, Sahony, Jairo, Cristal<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCUi3tzF8fG7Ee8xv1LBr3ro62wl5aKpsxDej1l3XFm8J3z7pHJABtBdfqvS7bhoTAtZk7szCx5PqE4GL6w4ozBYJ3oFNeDbLFFdH4Vv_ICHDm8A1Cv4ScqWKZ3vFVKq9JNgcPMCfCVk/s1600-h/SDC13404.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306087110372152706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCUi3tzF8fG7Ee8xv1LBr3ro62wl5aKpsxDej1l3XFm8J3z7pHJABtBdfqvS7bhoTAtZk7szCx5PqE4GL6w4ozBYJ3oFNeDbLFFdH4Vv_ICHDm8A1Cv4ScqWKZ3vFVKq9JNgcPMCfCVk/s320/SDC13404.JPG" border="0" /></a> Riding in the truck on the way to the campo</div><div align="center">From left to right Cheina, Sahony, Andrina, Jairo,</div><div align="center">Ramona, and Cristal<br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJkzvapWJXJ8aYeRm3USXdJ_MQG1t68Oc7J8ZU6YcmWjdgc7Ja7FVB39xWD8uARXxMZ-3yWkcWyARncz0G8rhTscrDMjsOzJ0vi3ImZ-212uu_VQvJzs3QMNSLl9Oz8zEHtXNUGKloYU/s1600-h/SDC13396.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306087090775483330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJkzvapWJXJ8aYeRm3USXdJ_MQG1t68Oc7J8ZU6YcmWjdgc7Ja7FVB39xWD8uARXxMZ-3yWkcWyARncz0G8rhTscrDMjsOzJ0vi3ImZ-212uu_VQvJzs3QMNSLl9Oz8zEHtXNUGKloYU/s320/SDC13396.JPG" border="0" /></a> Sheila, Orquidea, and me<br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiljOJAmVKBBTUNgzX6zzp66ANszDrrJOcJRxPhu7mffbWdVS5oWKKLDB72appMcJ1UPAXNAp1Yay8qBX2n5p7fxYNeKFQE706yOmrjfzlOGkJ9WlnuG1TN9yCqE-t-iicBBLER6SY0oDY/s1600-h/SDC13393.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306084235638202546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiljOJAmVKBBTUNgzX6zzp66ANszDrrJOcJRxPhu7mffbWdVS5oWKKLDB72appMcJ1UPAXNAp1Yay8qBX2n5p7fxYNeKFQE706yOmrjfzlOGkJ9WlnuG1TN9yCqE-t-iicBBLER6SY0oDY/s320/SDC13393.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTtPjpcOOfZ4s-bUwC-Xtp-x8LI7DdBrTL6b79e24RYpzIaa-iYapW4M3hyW94CWUCY852jH__2rrr2uOIEM9r53JLvNNrPihm_4u40F5RQeKvYu4jB1EMpEenU4kd0Th_WY-Nm31TdOU/s1600-h/SDC13390.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306084231125804514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTtPjpcOOfZ4s-bUwC-Xtp-x8LI7DdBrTL6b79e24RYpzIaa-iYapW4M3hyW94CWUCY852jH__2rrr2uOIEM9r53JLvNNrPihm_4u40F5RQeKvYu4jB1EMpEenU4kd0Th_WY-Nm31TdOU/s320/SDC13390.JPG" border="0" /></a> Orquidea, Norman, and Me<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq5SAX9EnsjdNT6LIODPytktJdG-v7tm8XR0t9vQl_Dx7T6JZoZfqNrUdG2f5WT_XyLwwVi7t2G7Q__kuqYC7OJE8VyPIkbq7PAdozpykM_nlG8Rpw0hLD_paRbo85Y97refkCce1MLjg/s1600-h/SDC13389.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306084223967572514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq5SAX9EnsjdNT6LIODPytktJdG-v7tm8XR0t9vQl_Dx7T6JZoZfqNrUdG2f5WT_XyLwwVi7t2G7Q__kuqYC7OJE8VyPIkbq7PAdozpykM_nlG8Rpw0hLD_paRbo85Y97refkCce1MLjg/s320/SDC13389.JPG" border="0" /></a> Manuela and Julissa in the truck<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCk-wWX-ncsCPOuhiIrc4owpEBzE2rMpRzRETU1GxF5H1_QagYgiYeP6YakKN5FUwpCx56PWD9tPYJJYaGRKg_bfECpc0z4aRepj2xLI8pXlpR6JCNZp4W5Et824M5OdgHeRyqLobKfGw/s1600-h/SDC13388.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306084220797162130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCk-wWX-ncsCPOuhiIrc4owpEBzE2rMpRzRETU1GxF5H1_QagYgiYeP6YakKN5FUwpCx56PWD9tPYJJYaGRKg_bfECpc0z4aRepj2xLI8pXlpR6JCNZp4W5Et824M5OdgHeRyqLobKfGw/s320/SDC13388.JPG" border="0" /></a> My class! From left to right they are Norman, me, Jairo</div><div>Caroline, Ernesto, Erik, Daniel, Ramona, Cristal (in the middle)</div><div>Sahony, Emely, Cristofer, Jaciel, and Yomalsy<br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkW7phYAppb4Gl3cg93QaTJQDEoV5csLhvwYgvApJLrFlgVNtpuvPUGH76C4CZcowaY0l4fpaLjMtFidBQm-kTJ4X2Jg9SqvbCdYWKDCNvUCMB5Y20f_tM41UkaxwW-pro7_Na_GL79w/s1600-h/SDC13303.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306084219215115362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLkW7phYAppb4Gl3cg93QaTJQDEoV5csLhvwYgvApJLrFlgVNtpuvPUGH76C4CZcowaY0l4fpaLjMtFidBQm-kTJ4X2Jg9SqvbCdYWKDCNvUCMB5Y20f_tM41UkaxwW-pro7_Na_GL79w/s320/SDC13303.JPG" border="0" /></a> KC and our friends from Thailand in the AFS camp<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGvOdfAORhDgN9UJVqC7a6x3f-LyKJAPo6-m2ndkDLVoMPLkT5-xvIu0S4PAJRJRl8F_4BfpUhZMoZyPA1LnFMl86fyFKubC91fsIoheq4s8sGIJhxJswOGPf1Dgv_UEYHadCiJMH-Go/s1600-h/SDC13222.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306081903671699778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPGvOdfAORhDgN9UJVqC7a6x3f-LyKJAPo6-m2ndkDLVoMPLkT5-xvIu0S4PAJRJRl8F_4BfpUhZMoZyPA1LnFMl86fyFKubC91fsIoheq4s8sGIJhxJswOGPf1Dgv_UEYHadCiJMH-Go/s320/SDC13222.JPG" border="0" /></a> Ramona and her house<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMWUa7CmfFeMKC0ZBuspQ-CU4i0HWn2hXB7AC183ivUtauCwr-sll4zoiKkX2sTXcv7Ab33qbIBxHvULvGtzzyOwe1LNj__sOa3tzAQdoFh22fyDOzk8oyzdgu8Dxq_C47QWYKq3NfL7M/s1600-h/SDC13283.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306081930121222514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMWUa7CmfFeMKC0ZBuspQ-CU4i0HWn2hXB7AC183ivUtauCwr-sll4zoiKkX2sTXcv7Ab33qbIBxHvULvGtzzyOwe1LNj__sOa3tzAQdoFh22fyDOzk8oyzdgu8Dxq_C47QWYKq3NfL7M/s320/SDC13283.JPG" border="0" /></a> KC and me in the camp<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUZa4mt6INxnn5zB-zHJOmFy_8yJvBXWGmPggJfhRFPP5UObwEZzkeTuJX4VNISZLYDgPaiM5NmbpcOMsQATzPUvsuzkognm9emcaTCQ2VLai4LDLAPYyh6d7F2ixbbheSBK4dMqPS3TI/s1600-h/SDC13271.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306081927004079330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUZa4mt6INxnn5zB-zHJOmFy_8yJvBXWGmPggJfhRFPP5UObwEZzkeTuJX4VNISZLYDgPaiM5NmbpcOMsQATzPUvsuzkognm9emcaTCQ2VLai4LDLAPYyh6d7F2ixbbheSBK4dMqPS3TI/s320/SDC13271.JPG" border="0" /></a> I got black highlights..<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlx4Xf3IBBqlCTvcgZlT8xL9Xn9U9ep5qtKUxZLP0aG9NF86nkvoY0zZ6u8FKS7xZY7tpk_LEkL5j0MKEEQ_CmAm_T0KSDkqvohtGvwQJJZz3AvTnj4tBx1ioEFeUhkEuHVNnwIjiefc/s1600-h/SDC13236.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306081920938286850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlx4Xf3IBBqlCTvcgZlT8xL9Xn9U9ep5qtKUxZLP0aG9NF86nkvoY0zZ6u8FKS7xZY7tpk_LEkL5j0MKEEQ_CmAm_T0KSDkqvohtGvwQJJZz3AvTnj4tBx1ioEFeUhkEuHVNnwIjiefc/s320/SDC13236.JPG" border="0" /></a> It´s easy to find random farm animals walking in the</div><div>streets of San Juan<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDpx2AoNZfivOOfNXDG7C0qMnu52nEbELJwFRejI5Ew8bDXJnMHDeH7bQDZpj8jOCs5nb38zMm2-qPdVcAP_tbHDZy3o38VfXgnLLvQCTlvN5tFWxp_u1_j1VJy0J44IvECrSVcSMp3c/s1600-h/SDC13224.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306081904648594882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXDpx2AoNZfivOOfNXDG7C0qMnu52nEbELJwFRejI5Ew8bDXJnMHDeH7bQDZpj8jOCs5nb38zMm2-qPdVcAP_tbHDZy3o38VfXgnLLvQCTlvN5tFWxp_u1_j1VJy0J44IvECrSVcSMp3c/s320/SDC13224.JPG" border="0" /></a> the street outside Ramona´s house..to the right is </div><div>the fence to the stadium</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-12187040770265186742009-02-18T11:37:00.000-08:002009-02-18T12:07:47.513-08:00Ah, so I was going to post pictures today but i accidentally brought the cord for my zune instead of the one for my camera. ugh. So I guess I´ll just write more.<br />In school, the juniors have two classes, 3ero A and 3ero B, I´m in 3ero A, and our classrooms are right next to eachother and they´re separated by walls that can be lifted up to make one big classroom. Our two grades have been arguing and we´ve kind´ve been enemies since the beginning of the year, because we wanted different class names and we wanted to do separate class activities. So today, for our last two classes, we opened the wall and had this big presentation thing, because today´s student day, and so that we could all make up the problems and be one big class again. And it started out with people reading stuff about students, what students are, and friendship, then people read poems, and then Julissa and Sheila sang a song together (they are really good singers! and they have guts to sing alone in front of about 70 people...), then more people presented and sang, two people sang the song that goes..turn around bright eyes, every single time i fall apart, (or something like that...not sure what it´s called) but in spanish..in spanish its different..mira mis ojos...yeah...and that was really good. There´s this girl Carolina in my class who´s hilarious, she was one of the ones singing it, and it was funny... Then this other girl from 3ero B sang and danced to the song Hey Now, this is what dreams are made of, in English from that Lizzie Mcguire movie hahaha and it was funny..everyone was singing along.. and every time someone finished everyone would scream and cheer as loud as they could, haha, so that was fun...<br />So what else can I talk about.. Oh! I learned how to drive a motorcycle. It was awesome! I´m not very good at it..but it was really fun. Kinda scary too.<br />Yesterday I went to Ramona´s house with Sheila and Scarley, and then we went to this restaurantish place close to there to eat...and woww, we ate soo much. It was funny..afterwards we could barely walk.<br />Here everyone watches soap operas (including me!..sometimes) There´s this one called Doña Barbara that I like to watch..It´s about this lady called Barbara and she owns this hacienda, and then this guy called Santos comes and moves into town, and they fall in love, but he doesnt know that Barbara´s a evil lady who kills people to get her way...and then I´m not sure what happens because i haven´t seen all of it..but this girl Maricela who lives on a hacienda, is Barbara´s daughter..because Barbara had gotten raped by the police chief, and she´s their daughter...and then somehow Santos falls in love with Maricela, and she falls in love with him (he´s like 40 and she´s 18)..and Barbara is all jealous...but Santos still stays with Barbara...but then he finds out about her lying and murdering and stuff...so he leaves her, then she´s even more mad...and Santos tries to get with Maricela, but she doesnt want to cuz before he was with her mom..and yeah it goes on from there like a soap opera..but i think its gonna end soon. Haha, my friend Ramona watches them about every night (they´re called telenovelas).<br />So there are lots of good Spanish rock bands...from the D.R., from Spain, from Colombia..and other parts of Latin America... I know that some people in Homer have heard of Enrique Iglesias, he sings the ping pong song...and there´s a version in Spanish too..<br />So i went to a basketball game the other day in the stadium. It was fun..like a normal basketball game.<br />Oh, so here in the D.R. the Spanish they use is alot different that in other Spanish speaking countries...for example, they take out the letter s from alot of words...like when they´re saying ´the doors´ they say la puerta instead of las puertas...and they like to add -isimo onto the ends of words..so when they´re saying ´that´s way cool!´they say ¨jevisimo!¨. and for the word thing they dont say cosa they say baina (i´m not sure how to spell it but that´s the way it sounds)<br />And i´m running out of time on the comp so i´ll post pics next time!Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-82409915190141633942009-02-16T11:59:00.000-08:002009-02-16T12:48:19.639-08:00Hello!!! Wow, i can´t believe i´m already more than half way through! I´ve got alot to cover. So school started that Monday, and it´s been going pretty well. I´m understanding almost everything that goes on in my classes now. So some people were asking me about the school here... It starts at 8:00 but we all have to get there at 7:45 to line up and sing the Dominican Hymn Song as they raise the flag. Then we all go to class, we have three classes without a break, then at 10:30 we have 20 minutes to eat breakfast from the cafeteria, then we go back to class and have three more classes without breaks, then we get out at 1:15... Happy Valentines Day! ...let´s see...i´m not sure where to start. so this last weekend for valentines day almost my whole class piled in the back of a truck and drove about 20 minutes out to the campo (country side farm land) of one of the kids in my classs, in the morning at about 10. When we got there, we all put on swim suites and swam in this river. And of course everyone thought it was cold :) but it was nothing compared to swimming in Kachemak Bay. And it was super fun, and we hung out almost all day swimming and talking. For lunch, everyone brought one thing...rice and beans (moro), chicken, spaghetti, bread. pretty much what we eat every day :p And we went home and now i have a really big sunburn!<br />So the other weekend, i went to my friend Cristal´s 15th birthday party (she´s in my class, and she´s only 15!!!) and almost my whole class went. And i went with my friends Ramona, Julissa, and Sheila, and we got there early so we were walking around outside, and Julissa looked up at the moon and it looked cool so she told us to look at it, and right then a lunar eclipse started!!!! Which is like...amazingly good timing. The moon was only about a quarter full, but it was still really awesome to see. Then we went back to Cristal´s house...and the party was really fun. Everyone danced (including me!) regeton and merengue and techno..and they had a big cake and dinner and everything. The thing i really like about here is that people aren´t afraid to dance and talk to people who aren´t in their little group of friends, and people are open!! And what else.. oh, right, i went to another AFS camp in a little town called Bayaguana, about an hour out of Santo Domingo. It was two weeks ago..And I was going to leave on a Friday morning at 10, but at 9:45 when i went to leave my house, the gate was closed with the lock outside, so i was locked in. And my host parents were at work and didn´t answer their phones...so i ended up having to find a key to the garage and go out and get the key...<br />Oh and i got my packages!!!!!! finalllyyyyy!!! Thank you all so much for sending me them, they made me very happy :) ok, so i´ll have to finish this with pictures later when i have more time..<br />i have to go to this math practice thing for my school...there´s these math olympics in a few weeks that my math teacher invited me to haha..<br />Miss you all! Hope everything has been going well.Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-62612930473906521922009-01-07T10:54:00.000-08:002009-01-07T12:07:36.208-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpyICiUQUc4454K3fKf3mhORi9CLkXHhs8cLhQmYq4aeOoMKm9lioduSIw4RwoewQrlCXwG4TI7JQh3Cc3d9ISoFd1YKZ6ao_w21GMo0ApNZmnf8UZl5WB1bFf9ZKoKt0usKXDNPGrUh4/s1600-h/SDC12576.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288645112462318562" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpyICiUQUc4454K3fKf3mhORi9CLkXHhs8cLhQmYq4aeOoMKm9lioduSIw4RwoewQrlCXwG4TI7JQh3Cc3d9ISoFd1YKZ6ao_w21GMo0ApNZmnf8UZl5WB1bFf9ZKoKt0usKXDNPGrUh4/s320/SDC12576.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /> The big catholic church in the middle of town<br /><br /> <br /> (down) Orquidea and me after the wedding<br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU6fIKR8wgbL_mvlvEe-7jceS-GYkBX_SdkzObO8TtX8wGoXBuDKoTouRNs9bLVhokeg7_cNO4RBsjFgW-hz-v1qR8eyrYiXIb_dWiJlE7nmqbdpX497gSSq2knePEm4JsGYI9gLqa-tA/s1600-h/SDC13203.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288631841722376530" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU6fIKR8wgbL_mvlvEe-7jceS-GYkBX_SdkzObO8TtX8wGoXBuDKoTouRNs9bLVhokeg7_cNO4RBsjFgW-hz-v1qR8eyrYiXIb_dWiJlE7nmqbdpX497gSSq2knePEm4JsGYI9gLqa-tA/s320/SDC13203.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPF41khZKWLn1oayUCb3ZC6-U82EBi3_PQHtxuIFZI1xIuvTJMTIpqt1bASWE6FFr8Bg1Wl7Rz36ebGeDR_qC8TziyDPWHDgcdd7HRXkmo3E4ZHqKQ4TWfXqhG5CFNnYECvN61qk4MKG0/s1600-h/SDC13126.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288631833252224562" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPF41khZKWLn1oayUCb3ZC6-U82EBi3_PQHtxuIFZI1xIuvTJMTIpqt1bASWE6FFr8Bg1Wl7Rz36ebGeDR_qC8TziyDPWHDgcdd7HRXkmo3E4ZHqKQ4TWfXqhG5CFNnYECvN61qk4MKG0/s320/SDC13126.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288630936885245842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAAmOIDZ5UFbhHyQTuSfcHfEuyYhnxUoBsyu1jvS4jX3t7nAi0gnCHpuRKEK4qrOayluubF2qobb5grn-jSFKLtemIeP5uL7_U5_uuyiSh9FK08ecBdKUXM98GYi3sle4tcE0Qm98S23Q/s320/SDC13127.JPG" border="0" /> <br /><br /> christmas eve dinner! lots of food!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70LGrmOxszxaloz5ELXKYamTJuejGXTEVk4bJXG-Yy3hoEu0zUYtyn-_GlSgd9RwBqiAh0lBfuQwWd0ayFDKXFKAhqmlnAuQt1iJBKaaMppA8_ng8RKcswfZ1y_8zNnvYPV5sf7R7lok/s1600-h/SDC13103.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288630925763234034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj70LGrmOxszxaloz5ELXKYamTJuejGXTEVk4bJXG-Yy3hoEu0zUYtyn-_GlSgd9RwBqiAh0lBfuQwWd0ayFDKXFKAhqmlnAuQt1iJBKaaMppA8_ng8RKcswfZ1y_8zNnvYPV5sf7R7lok/s320/SDC13103.JPG" border="0" /></a> the aguinaldo at about 7 in the morning in my school<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbSzAOtyvUzrz4xmhvuzt6nsHYzV0-WZpv-Wx-_1HNGUdaobGudk2izNCwAw3ses1TG0Ge-KGeWrhFbGEFh8meGSmOPE73yffE5V4U8WDlrFRmdOp8R3s47ntos-bhRHoHNBrURLDWfE/s1600-h/SDC13099.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288630909191102050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbSzAOtyvUzrz4xmhvuzt6nsHYzV0-WZpv-Wx-_1HNGUdaobGudk2izNCwAw3ses1TG0Ge-KGeWrhFbGEFh8meGSmOPE73yffE5V4U8WDlrFRmdOp8R3s47ntos-bhRHoHNBrURLDWfE/s320/SDC13099.JPG" border="0" /></a> one of the two cafeterias in my school, in a time when it´s not full...imagine about 30 people standing around it, about half yelling ´morena! dame un tostada!´ and about five banging on the walls or throwing rocks on the roof...hahahahah. that happens alot.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Mjz8mQFUFPFEg8OopbQwvJ1UGTBx18HZEGQKD39LSTxNg98s40BwYxOIlTQfEe3Pc4q_qRRHke4eQX9kDyXfo8KKl-f8ULNqgmljPkAskdqYRhHDueC_EcRQ5Yld7N21Db9NY8Pke8s/s1600-h/SDC13091.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288630897806704770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Mjz8mQFUFPFEg8OopbQwvJ1UGTBx18HZEGQKD39LSTxNg98s40BwYxOIlTQfEe3Pc4q_qRRHke4eQX9kDyXfo8KKl-f8ULNqgmljPkAskdqYRhHDueC_EcRQ5Yld7N21Db9NY8Pke8s/s320/SDC13091.JPG" border="0" /></a> my guitar!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTFOjfHAxnDpMMqMeSKJlkOT8qKD0nPZu5lzIlijfhqZaGXOkn7ymLyJ8SFioYSJYt5muDeGlZxNzJbi3phx-Y3Y8Afxq3sJ-JbizqG5DzaZarL7eBcJWQp8IO9uKg1v0TVNEVQ-8EOAA/s1600-h/SDC13065.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288630882643395234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTFOjfHAxnDpMMqMeSKJlkOT8qKD0nPZu5lzIlijfhqZaGXOkn7ymLyJ8SFioYSJYt5muDeGlZxNzJbi3phx-Y3Y8Afxq3sJ-JbizqG5DzaZarL7eBcJWQp8IO9uKg1v0TVNEVQ-8EOAA/s320/SDC13065.JPG" border="0" /></a> the other side of my school<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdngFTFod-T4RyrbGd_Wp4b3XYRialIKX-9wSfAvIatMdyI7EhG1THsmHFUFJAW3OMCLLPM5b0VwIzdzIIKrD8xub9BB2FuBSIf9YdYz5n7tt50FEIqBbYyE3Vstm4FJDLhUz81Jr87Y/s1600-h/SDC13072.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288629173668712226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdngFTFod-T4RyrbGd_Wp4b3XYRialIKX-9wSfAvIatMdyI7EhG1THsmHFUFJAW3OMCLLPM5b0VwIzdzIIKrD8xub9BB2FuBSIf9YdYz5n7tt50FEIqBbYyE3Vstm4FJDLhUz81Jr87Y/s320/SDC13072.JPG" border="0" /></a> a kid from my class riding a mini motorcycle. everywhere you go here there´s sure to be a motorcycle or motorscooter, it´s rare for people to have cars<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZ-IrQDypDULIvUKTWQFvdDYrjxVjWst-9tWniAv70J8ptQCTtSoydMu-gkbruIBIhJOv9jkiE2G3E5H5EYLGdz0zzpkwmX49ZpvQ_RfVEs-ZazT4vEI8j2N8kwff2FGGM1WkVrr-2Eo/s1600-h/SDC13049.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288629162617998866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZ-IrQDypDULIvUKTWQFvdDYrjxVjWst-9tWniAv70J8ptQCTtSoydMu-gkbruIBIhJOv9jkiE2G3E5H5EYLGdz0zzpkwmX49ZpvQ_RfVEs-ZazT4vEI8j2N8kwff2FGGM1WkVrr-2Eo/s320/SDC13049.JPG" border="0" /></a> a normal street..the green place on the right is a colmado, which is a little store where you can buy food, phone cards, and much more, and they are everywhere! ok, i´m trying to gather pictures from around my town, of the parks and everything, but i dont have very many pics yet.<br /><br /><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYl7PP0sk_kcjP-ERR1cDIR8ymQ0DlMlbaYjDagPaAi041LI71ebgT314BI0cGmMpfrniPNcrOM1todqRZb-y1Yx2L7FRxqd9N3k0h_BgzbkaOsRwz5tb8mqhu4dzHE2348-o3g4KX84/s1600-h/SDC13044.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288629150353549810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYl7PP0sk_kcjP-ERR1cDIR8ymQ0DlMlbaYjDagPaAi041LI71ebgT314BI0cGmMpfrniPNcrOM1todqRZb-y1Yx2L7FRxqd9N3k0h_BgzbkaOsRwz5tb8mqhu4dzHE2348-o3g4KX84/s320/SDC13044.JPG" border="0" /></a> My street (my house is just to the right)<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj_27OWbw5JYWlNpEasRABQbLKUhzxjtRjYPBWyE60OCGWGgVYAsSpMNbCZX5mGSxd99UHVhKxILY9Rc06MOkNn87bm4tr40zpVSU5HXSmyboH3LVbY_Na7GZfgH8yzVU8hH3ny5n0Pks/s1600-h/SDC13043.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288629141137305714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj_27OWbw5JYWlNpEasRABQbLKUhzxjtRjYPBWyE60OCGWGgVYAsSpMNbCZX5mGSxd99UHVhKxILY9Rc06MOkNn87bm4tr40zpVSU5HXSmyboH3LVbY_Na7GZfgH8yzVU8hH3ny5n0Pks/s320/SDC13043.JPG" border="0" /></a> My house<br /></div><div>Happy New Year! Wow, my time here is going so fast! On the 22nd of January I´ll have been here for 5 months already! that´s halfway. wow. ok, so i´ll start off where i left off...<br />So the weekend before examens i visited my friend KC in Azua, a town a little bigger than San Juan that´s pretty close to here and on the southern coast. We pretty much hung out in her house the whole weekend, it was fun, one night we went to the discotech with her aunt (whose pretty cool and knows english really well). It was ok i guess..extremely loud music (mostly bachata, merengue, and reggeton) and people dancing. Me and KC were like the only ones who didnt dance haha.<br />Examens weren´t easy..I didnt have to take my french exam (i dont know why, i guess i had a good enough grade not to but there was only one other kid in my class who didnt have to take it) and there was a group of kids who had good grades in biology, so our teacher (my host mom) made another test for us so that we wouldnt have to take the normal exam...agh. haha. and the test to get out of the normal test was just as hard as the normal test. haha. but noone who took the test had to take the other one. so exams here arent as closely monitored as they are in homer high...theres lots of people cheating off other people and whispering and passing notes...some people even took a picture of my friend julissa´s math test with their phones (that they were supposedly using as calculators) then copying it.. but thats not what happened in some classes..some teachers are really strict. oh, and we only had two examens every day, sometimes one, so we would take the exam in the morning, then afterwards we could leave the school at like 10:30 or whenever we got finished. we ended up going to Ilda´s, the bakery-sweetery, and eating cake and sweets alot. one time we went to the parque duarte, where there were lots of kids from lots of different schools, all in their different uniforms. it´s fun because every school has their diff. uniform and you can tell where someone goes to school just by looking at them.. one school has a peach colored skirt and white shirt for girls...some have plaid skirts..and some just pants. in my school we used to have skirts but they got banned because girls started wearing them really short..and there are alot of immature boys in our school..anyways, the examens ended on a thursday and that night my class had a chocolate (a get together in the street where they make hot chocolate and have a fire and stuff) and i went with Ramona and Sheila and Scarlett and Julissa (not Julissa from my class but Ramona´s cousin) and it was boring at first because it was supposed to start at 7, we got there at 8 and there was barely anyone there (hehe typical dominican timing :p ) then at 9 ish there was alot of people, and alot of them werent from our class, but seniors and the other junior class, and then 10:30 ish they started making hot chocolate, and it finally ended at 11:30ish. oh, hot chocolate is made differently here...people put lots of spices and cinnamon in it so it tastes different. it´s pretty good, but i miss the type we make in homer. </div><div>Then, that Saturday morning i woke up at 3:30 and went to my school with my host parents for an aguinaldo, which is this get together for the highschool kids, and everyone meets at 3:30 in the morning to pile into the backs of trucks, then they go driving through the town yelling and singing and waking people up and having fun (and some people drinking like always), haha, and agh, we got there at 4:00 and everyone had already left the school! so my friend Ramona and i didnt get to go. which pretty much sucked..we woke up at 3:30 for nothing :p and then when the trucks started arriving at the school, at about 6:30 ish, they made hot chocolate and had a bonfire. And there were alot of people there hanging out and talking so it was o.k., not extremely boring. then we left the school at about 7:30, went home, and i went to sleep. </div><div>Then came the vacation! Wow! i spent the first few days in my house sitting around and doing nothing, because there was nothing to do but watch tv or sleep. Then on christmas eve, family started arriving, and by about 6 there were about 40 people in my house, and everyone was either watching kids, helping prepare the dinner, watching tv, or trying to escape the house. and the adult guys were outside playing dominoes for a while. then, the dinner was finally ready at about 8:30, and we all went up to the roof, then lined up and ate, there was chicken, turkey, steak, pastelitoes, soda, lots of different types of pastas and salads, and lots more. and it was all really good, and it reminded me of thanksgiving at home, where all the family gets together and eats alot. haha, it was fun, and there were some cousins my age that i got to hang out with. After eating we did a gift exchange. Then almost everyone left at like 12 and went to Elias Piña, a small town closer to the Haitian border. </div><div>Christmas day I didnt do anything more than sit around and watch tv, because all the family had gone. Then, that weekend i went to Orquidea´s house to hang out and i ended up staying there until yesterday! It was fun, and Orquidea´s family is extremely nice and i´m really thankful that they invited me to their house for so long. It´s cool because her dad is from Italy, and we always talk about Alaska and Italy and stuff. Then on New Years Eve, I went to the park with Orquidea to see her friend Baldemar who is from here but lives in New York and knows English, and hung out there for a while but it was kinda boring so we went back to her house to get ready to go to her church. We went at about 10:30 and stayed until 12:30, and i felt a little awkward because i´m not religious, but it was a cool experience. During the countdown to midnight everyone was on their knees praying, then the preacher looked at his watch and said ït´s 2009! and everyone gets up and starts hugging eachother and saying ¨felicidades! feliz año nuevo!¨Afterwards we all went to Orquidea´s grandpa´s house and hung out there for a bit talking, oh, and the first thing i ate in 2009 was a piece of fried chicken, just so you all know :) . Then, at about 3 in the morning we all headed to Orquidea´s house, where we ate our dinner (because we didnt eat before), which was pizza and cookies and banana bread(which i had made with a recipe from home) and more cookies that Orquidea and her mom made, and fruit, and cider, and i´m not really sure but i think it was fruit cake..haha...it´s called panettone in Spanish..and it was good. And we ate alot! Then we went to bed. Haha, almost the whole time i was in Orquidea´s house we went to bed at about 3 in the morning then woke up at 11:30 or 12. We went to the park in the night alot, because in the Christmas time here there´s always alot of people hanging out in the park listening to loud music (there are lots of cars here that have huge microphones in the way back, like you see on t.v., haha, that drive by with the way back door open and music extremely loud) Then this last Sunday there was a wedding reception in Orquidea´s restaurant outside around the pool, and i helped serving sodas and food and stuff, and helped prepare these little shishkabobs (is that how you spell that?) with fruit, then we stuck them into whole pineapples for decoration, haha. And the wedding lasted until about 1:30, and we got lots of good wedding cake :)</div><div>Then, today was the day that school was supposed to start, but, just like all my friends told me, nobody from my grade went except for me and Orquidea. Ha. So i ended up just being in school for about a half hour, then walking home. And I´m guessing it´s going to be the same tomorrow and the next day, because everyone´s planning on going to school on Monday. </div><div>Well, that about covers it! I hope everyone had a good holiday season, and Happy 2009!<br />Please comment! I miss everyone! </div><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-36269431553520267902008-11-26T10:40:00.000-08:002008-11-26T11:27:39.654-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzV_vVpOB-1BgWKLAPoBo4xnGrH-_B3mczDv1t5LAGD5vwMzNVx0tZ15YLtH_zdXc8dqNzA94gZYpG4beOgK0eLiO4CCADxB2-1AX4IYNuEUd9XUhw_FVmD7RYkCoc9SIlm6gcsNyCPI/s1600-h/SDC13015.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273049540041462018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzV_vVpOB-1BgWKLAPoBo4xnGrH-_B3mczDv1t5LAGD5vwMzNVx0tZ15YLtH_zdXc8dqNzA94gZYpG4beOgK0eLiO4CCADxB2-1AX4IYNuEUd9XUhw_FVmD7RYkCoc9SIlm6gcsNyCPI/s320/SDC13015.JPG" border="0" /></a> nice view of mountains<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6jgXOlJiN_KX4rLj59BkHMyQaMycoMN99LrgwcNfgBMuRxp9dt1C8tRn-kDl1kPLw57KNo1BgQsAvDxwMqcu5BXCjNkaeR8861sYI-MozGVk0NoK7UbGJ_IOAsGC4FC2xtwaTjWIrSgM/s1600-h/SDC13018.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273049539596619730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6jgXOlJiN_KX4rLj59BkHMyQaMycoMN99LrgwcNfgBMuRxp9dt1C8tRn-kDl1kPLw57KNo1BgQsAvDxwMqcu5BXCjNkaeR8861sYI-MozGVk0NoK7UbGJ_IOAsGC4FC2xtwaTjWIrSgM/s320/SDC13018.JPG" border="0" /></a> a hummingbird!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhSY4ZeesIwcCbZB_s6WGHFJQP3p1T_aIXnQ5DPHuIGC076vatPZPL3yCPdN0_ALFgkB3rC2TpIbOAihimVkq_Pxn7X7KwyfUqlHqUjX0QI6jKt2yDnX29iY9fTjQli3HSlu5KlOaEMfw/s1600-h/SDC12930.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273049525752763282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhSY4ZeesIwcCbZB_s6WGHFJQP3p1T_aIXnQ5DPHuIGC076vatPZPL3yCPdN0_ALFgkB3rC2TpIbOAihimVkq_Pxn7X7KwyfUqlHqUjX0QI6jKt2yDnX29iY9fTjQli3HSlu5KlOaEMfw/s320/SDC12930.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />haha, people kissing juan pablo duarte<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgney4vY6CHb3X28BztX_BLZpnjRoiW60HsLI_5nJKNtlRiz2J8SPgTjIxgvn6fPny56KWW8wj6qm3-GYt_A_oUxqtf98lfQorxVI5x9C9LANnsXvFY9ckGw5g6dYJIdXAarPOIpOSKLxg/s1600-h/SDC12942.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273049523170344178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgney4vY6CHb3X28BztX_BLZpnjRoiW60HsLI_5nJKNtlRiz2J8SPgTjIxgvn6fPny56KWW8wj6qm3-GYt_A_oUxqtf98lfQorxVI5x9C9LANnsXvFY9ckGw5g6dYJIdXAarPOIpOSKLxg/s320/SDC12942.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieOitk5mD8vpDnzA8aUP4GuQzqvz0FHA2siM2Q_s5FpoprFdFaGT_uzAXuOROJI66Pu1i1WKtJhw7ddA3wEP_NxflQuUwcrdZgGln8gS7LQ0-XHWBqTvKb3PjaCwYKJFN5d9xigkeoXE/s1600-h/SDC12940.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273049520203448082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieOitk5mD8vpDnzA8aUP4GuQzqvz0FHA2siM2Q_s5FpoprFdFaGT_uzAXuOROJI66Pu1i1WKtJhw7ddA3wEP_NxflQuUwcrdZgGln8gS7LQ0-XHWBqTvKb3PjaCwYKJFN5d9xigkeoXE/s320/SDC12940.JPG" border="0" /></a> at the peakkkk<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFghpfULIYjsdccTNfbc0Szu3nizXKH9rMQcNBttNdM3sRtFK__LFYOQs9XCoZOGFH3NTg9Tli0TPajhTfD4-dBwSOKMQ6oyZODv0_u560GKUsAxjQRWvGgqazel1Rc2MNRVQtfNqMUY/s1600-h/SDC13004.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273045693515315762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnFghpfULIYjsdccTNfbc0Szu3nizXKH9rMQcNBttNdM3sRtFK__LFYOQs9XCoZOGFH3NTg9Tli0TPajhTfD4-dBwSOKMQ6oyZODv0_u560GKUsAxjQRWvGgqazel1Rc2MNRVQtfNqMUY/s320/SDC13004.JPG" border="0" /></a> the valley<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DssQeCIPzwQUdtIDZxTOkGo35bfRl3mxk4fl4cxDN3L_ytvgddjAuvv93353BuhWbysNG8M9AGSsMpb-xIKodVZlIgJheMlONng0FAcjbEExKBPCLi-yzu7WtJNFyn5dlTWaHV3vkvc/s1600-h/SDC12997.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273045688342010178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DssQeCIPzwQUdtIDZxTOkGo35bfRl3mxk4fl4cxDN3L_ytvgddjAuvv93353BuhWbysNG8M9AGSsMpb-xIKodVZlIgJheMlONng0FAcjbEExKBPCLi-yzu7WtJNFyn5dlTWaHV3vkvc/s320/SDC12997.JPG" border="0" /></a> the almost fairy tale valley!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv3Viz3x3UU2BwqM3vWcSNiaGT02-AYmArYwDCQAEyu03kbjMRI1vN62jOhE-w7ZDmuWXNttOgxntFZuLwepb3kTHNxT-jNwW4fewFOyY-Tv68yXp0_Y3H4U1MpzBq6jVKTkwZN0vfD88/s1600-h/SDC12993.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273045677701201490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv3Viz3x3UU2BwqM3vWcSNiaGT02-AYmArYwDCQAEyu03kbjMRI1vN62jOhE-w7ZDmuWXNttOgxntFZuLwepb3kTHNxT-jNwW4fewFOyY-Tv68yXp0_Y3H4U1MpzBq6jVKTkwZN0vfD88/s320/SDC12993.JPG" border="0" /></a> a view of the valley that we stayed in<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ilByHH5zi_AcG43a7WhN21dGCxLemtTvTq9bUR-Zvg0XbaPeN6qb4XpwtEZEL5z9XRPCihbMvZTK2qs1HAUmXv-YFU5Y-9BJkFTJYEnLecZfrRlPUeXdKn781BS4xaHGDmMKc8LYlvA/s1600-h/SDC12979.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273045668969402594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ilByHH5zi_AcG43a7WhN21dGCxLemtTvTq9bUR-Zvg0XbaPeN6qb4XpwtEZEL5z9XRPCihbMvZTK2qs1HAUmXv-YFU5Y-9BJkFTJYEnLecZfrRlPUeXdKn781BS4xaHGDmMKc8LYlvA/s320/SDC12979.JPG" border="0" /></a> cacti!<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj76bI-_7umub2pJHyFM_O8QrKVzzRT2IYo24eYODjbZoOGX7GJb9fMXvPp3Ehz1ruAPvTGpIUqVFhqueAKYZz8EVHAX7ZwduhjvdUNIUcrRUTw56rR1GCYLOq-Lwd5_POGlmbDGY43OkE/s1600-h/SDC12976.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273045659044786754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj76bI-_7umub2pJHyFM_O8QrKVzzRT2IYo24eYODjbZoOGX7GJb9fMXvPp3Ehz1ruAPvTGpIUqVFhqueAKYZz8EVHAX7ZwduhjvdUNIUcrRUTw56rR1GCYLOq-Lwd5_POGlmbDGY43OkE/s320/SDC12976.JPG" border="0" /></a> walking to the valley<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijj9z4UrZljMAersFtmyhZpPVB34a5LozUP56JGNnHLW1gg5PS80hXtnVASfbXVFS9LDdmAM_ob0pab95KdpA4qWRnhrsoXpY_jbRDff8y8cqmcgPgKlFGwTZFqn4r_zACwSgYF5It0pE/s1600-h/SDC12904.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273041507107947106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijj9z4UrZljMAersFtmyhZpPVB34a5LozUP56JGNnHLW1gg5PS80hXtnVASfbXVFS9LDdmAM_ob0pab95KdpA4qWRnhrsoXpY_jbRDff8y8cqmcgPgKlFGwTZFqn4r_zACwSgYF5It0pE/s320/SDC12904.JPG" border="0" /></a> sunrise!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZt9um1Rih1-PA4aLiiXf7bSS-OhPTUhfct-167ZVlx31skTRYJ9TtC3_wRbo1AQJ5aC1iyLfAOwnqqktN5lJANwuH7u1igYZdM-LmVBAyx_LxghgYuFQePBPsxANSFDirbEFAoxHpFQ/s1600-h/SDC12945.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273041501508353202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZt9um1Rih1-PA4aLiiXf7bSS-OhPTUhfct-167ZVlx31skTRYJ9TtC3_wRbo1AQJ5aC1iyLfAOwnqqktN5lJANwuH7u1igYZdM-LmVBAyx_LxghgYuFQePBPsxANSFDirbEFAoxHpFQ/s320/SDC12945.JPG" border="0" /></a> nice view of the mountains<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdXLbISkPdKgcTsVHO62YVhrYkOekXtx6pyjqmg5Ba9POS0K-0uokCBclPyNRVocWwiy4mKckwCX9DG-ueRCmMknzeGNqxKz2ZcwgFB6IW8oZdNambdHVPiXtJHzt6bVMNgD4dQjpBbmE/s1600-h/SDC12928.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273041489774157618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdXLbISkPdKgcTsVHO62YVhrYkOekXtx6pyjqmg5Ba9POS0K-0uokCBclPyNRVocWwiy4mKckwCX9DG-ueRCmMknzeGNqxKz2ZcwgFB6IW8oZdNambdHVPiXtJHzt6bVMNgD4dQjpBbmE/s320/SDC12928.JPG" border="0" /></a> us at the peak! me, a guy from italy, maizie another girl from the us, and up top a girl from germany, till, and a girl from iceland<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-BqEWZqwGmoS8mmdiY5IMV3Rb1X6NnNkbv5R5E5SL-GI0heYslEcgqGrG4kXTcq_K7BWrKxqoB94ozlUUinT6ZGlOeHjYudWz2y-AwyMm7ImHG0DPVED2pS0ZGspMMoNiJQnkoMjbD4/s1600-h/SDC12939.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273041497468214194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-BqEWZqwGmoS8mmdiY5IMV3Rb1X6NnNkbv5R5E5SL-GI0heYslEcgqGrG4kXTcq_K7BWrKxqoB94ozlUUinT6ZGlOeHjYudWz2y-AwyMm7ImHG0DPVED2pS0ZGspMMoNiJQnkoMjbD4/s320/SDC12939.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpjy8P9tbenZSp5EBr_m8GoinpUfwebsNj7jqwG1pnhVbgIdmZicfZeKd-fdgibrX8-2UmQCIRSC0qORl2I8nfjy4DW0Lu2uGiFZg-WretVPmvbFC04HPWJx0Qa_wxd4x-nhO1aDLAbdc/s1600-h/SDC12927.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273041488934907810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpjy8P9tbenZSp5EBr_m8GoinpUfwebsNj7jqwG1pnhVbgIdmZicfZeKd-fdgibrX8-2UmQCIRSC0qORl2I8nfjy4DW0Lu2uGiFZg-WretVPmvbFC04HPWJx0Qa_wxd4x-nhO1aDLAbdc/s320/SDC12927.JPG" border="0" /></a> helloo again! ok, so some people have asked me how many pesos in a dollar..here it´s about 34.5, but it rises and falls every day..somedays 35..some days 34.. and i dont know if they ended up finding the person who took the 2 mil. pesos..and on the trip there werent very many animals other than birds and insects and the pigs that we ate..we saw wild humming birds, which was really cool. the humming sound that they make with their wings sounds cool and some people heard it and thought it was a wild pig, so they would freak out..and then it would just be the bird. </div><div>so this last weekend i went to santo domingo with ramona, which was cool because usually afs doesnt let people travel without family, but i got permission to go with ramona and stay for one night in her sister´s house, and her mom is visiting from Santomas and we went shopping with her and her cousin. it was fun because in santo domingo they have big malls and lots of stores:) except it´s not cheaper here..i was looking for converse, and in one of the only stores that had a good variety they were like 60 dollars! agh. but in other stores they sell them cheaper..not cheap, but cheaper than 60 dollars. what else..the guitar class that i´m in is fun, and i´m learning guitar in spanish! which is a little different than learning in english, because here instead of notes like A, B, C, D, E, F, G, they use do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and si. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-59033652501022236992008-11-25T10:50:00.000-08:002008-11-25T11:42:27.755-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4artLp5OOpMDcwu9Nrba2SEY5uWQsK3TCNx_1hKV32OLSJBAqnMLOuOeP10iaXJj2ao03WmiEShQNVMlTaIrXD2AF5H0xeeOHSFB9aoV0gVInXZd_J6jn5YvMO1uHIVoD9whUc48Qqb0/s1600-h/SDC12917.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272679470599046882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4artLp5OOpMDcwu9Nrba2SEY5uWQsK3TCNx_1hKV32OLSJBAqnMLOuOeP10iaXJj2ao03WmiEShQNVMlTaIrXD2AF5H0xeeOHSFB9aoV0gVInXZd_J6jn5YvMO1uHIVoD9whUc48Qqb0/s320/SDC12917.JPG" border="0" /></a> me at the peak<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHDRBBpgT4CyX8nS4Xnx3dSgMuCWRIIRN7LPFJ7biUn_p5KN21j-AMIOrLwNqjd0-WOt2ZQeQ_d0dFuOrxH18lNQ3rlaae08LAJIuM9vw4sKmydpevXrsBfVuUyUTC_I1TWazVWb1BaPA/s1600-h/SDC12907.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272679464332343442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHDRBBpgT4CyX8nS4Xnx3dSgMuCWRIIRN7LPFJ7biUn_p5KN21j-AMIOrLwNqjd0-WOt2ZQeQ_d0dFuOrxH18lNQ3rlaae08LAJIuM9vw4sKmydpevXrsBfVuUyUTC_I1TWazVWb1BaPA/s320/SDC12907.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />the sunrise<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgxBwl2xmAP-Udnd0kH4aRpzUie3FpC53suzz38nc5tPm8eM1WpG2Yx1CdRpvbk4wE2-FmKBO4xOejIcJvmQ4zekaVULHA0eWgSFi5qD3sbJ9pJ-SfJHxvOaB1NPo_xo7Rjba_mhqk38/s1600-h/SDC12882.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272679458558938786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgxBwl2xmAP-Udnd0kH4aRpzUie3FpC53suzz38nc5tPm8eM1WpG2Yx1CdRpvbk4wE2-FmKBO4xOejIcJvmQ4zekaVULHA0eWgSFi5qD3sbJ9pJ-SfJHxvOaB1NPo_xo7Rjba_mhqk38/s320/SDC12882.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9yqLsVJvsMq12JOPcTHoQuq4jFnNM6RDyyY7puT83EcYFijvkqMHTrwrrtWUVrLmiyh-i_6GiIMRb29AouDHXipEjyk2Q6LVzFYSkeHZFdTOFYTnO6SLgIrNb_o1KGOFMrUy_jKU9f0/s1600-h/SDC12881.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272679453498140194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9yqLsVJvsMq12JOPcTHoQuq4jFnNM6RDyyY7puT83EcYFijvkqMHTrwrrtWUVrLmiyh-i_6GiIMRb29AouDHXipEjyk2Q6LVzFYSkeHZFdTOFYTnO6SLgIrNb_o1KGOFMrUy_jKU9f0/s320/SDC12881.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnPVidbDnJThdBjU_WgZNUr-H51Jt7so1tk669DliEsqL_ET7Xs6bSWgq8wL5jnGtYe2sfhnOvF0AbAgaFgS8wnHJdfsfgXcntV3UrOkJ2ZiKfidM4N7Qpc9bIxdwmsp1Bgyg4tUJ9Xk/s1600-h/SDC12877.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272679447317329138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnPVidbDnJThdBjU_WgZNUr-H51Jt7so1tk669DliEsqL_ET7Xs6bSWgq8wL5jnGtYe2sfhnOvF0AbAgaFgS8wnHJdfsfgXcntV3UrOkJ2ZiKfidM4N7Qpc9bIxdwmsp1Bgyg4tUJ9Xk/s320/SDC12877.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzRy6TbtBvSi18NS0p3yz0poHXXlpVCjM7_Er-hYWAVkHYF-HSabPHMuQkxaM4vpflX9zvZ2H6L3L7RScHhyphenhyphenR4xkMKEyKArcbVyS4bad0MKP5QzfKRAxy26g6Py0CwSbzXo3jUprxY4E/s1600-h/SDC12828.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272674311239160466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzRy6TbtBvSi18NS0p3yz0poHXXlpVCjM7_Er-hYWAVkHYF-HSabPHMuQkxaM4vpflX9zvZ2H6L3L7RScHhyphenhyphenR4xkMKEyKArcbVyS4bad0MKP5QzfKRAxy26g6Py0CwSbzXo3jUprxY4E/s320/SDC12828.JPG" border="0" /></a> a pretty bridge<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFHY-lg6QEVYCENCuyFJ3bIHMsxJWnlcdZLXRkX6gaOqLqCPJoJDPwbdMTBAJ_RTzgvMNLTUp2mNkmLO-wnbHKczNys6YWMavA99o6of6SLoEUY20I51ssNOLUXgyXoqdaoNPahMbNRvQ/s1600-h/SDC12846.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272674336055869090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFHY-lg6QEVYCENCuyFJ3bIHMsxJWnlcdZLXRkX6gaOqLqCPJoJDPwbdMTBAJ_RTzgvMNLTUp2mNkmLO-wnbHKczNys6YWMavA99o6of6SLoEUY20I51ssNOLUXgyXoqdaoNPahMbNRvQ/s320/SDC12846.JPG" border="0" /></a> about half of the trails were like this..not even trails but just water drainage spots :)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pz669vhIelycXm2It1A0kpDtAbmPFHKmm6oiBrXpPjfmP4NZsE-gFTNiTcHIfhWsNTJp1HwsOjYmyJ3ScYei836nk1pD0g78Aa89Zznid11hozZSi5dyK9nMLjtNjWDxaRDy4-Y1Wag/s1600-h/SDC12844.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272674328121845746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9pz669vhIelycXm2It1A0kpDtAbmPFHKmm6oiBrXpPjfmP4NZsE-gFTNiTcHIfhWsNTJp1HwsOjYmyJ3ScYei836nk1pD0g78Aa89Zznid11hozZSi5dyK9nMLjtNjWDxaRDy4-Y1Wag/s320/SDC12844.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgmGoJlZaCj57tUPiITNcsEgkANWRcSSVTmkX0Q_6sPiT4nQP6_ZOufiYaMT1MA-FIr_OLFU_SyizdRr8ZxCoMgMnXlJCf60RaTNwM3N5taHwiyh8pNm5pHswNROfnhcnTkIDqUgsvE4/s1600-h/SDC12832.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272674325405086594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgmGoJlZaCj57tUPiITNcsEgkANWRcSSVTmkX0Q_6sPiT4nQP6_ZOufiYaMT1MA-FIr_OLFU_SyizdRr8ZxCoMgMnXlJCf60RaTNwM3N5taHwiyh8pNm5pHswNROfnhcnTkIDqUgsvE4/s320/SDC12832.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixALWZQuCqOc58pcuG9x7F4Lrg1TEyZ3WX406aOJ8IeavpSklb6HOswsen1-eioFWBDPAnryDQ0Ujchz_ekA2IarcaWEGhEAwCk3OFGRTImlmmHiPsvWOcHZ_CVgx7UkY-WIEyhyphenhyphen9ovDQ/s1600-h/SDC12811.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272674315957162770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixALWZQuCqOc58pcuG9x7F4Lrg1TEyZ3WX406aOJ8IeavpSklb6HOswsen1-eioFWBDPAnryDQ0Ujchz_ekA2IarcaWEGhEAwCk3OFGRTImlmmHiPsvWOcHZ_CVgx7UkY-WIEyhyphenhyphen9ovDQ/s320/SDC12811.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>ok, so i left off in pico duarte..so i guess i can describe things more detailedly. ha. on the first day we got up early and started walking, and every student got a bag of sweets and juice to carry and eat while walking, and we walked for a while through forest and it was really cool, lots of different trees and random vines and fruit trees, like oranges and lemons, and they smelt really good, and we went up and down alot..then sometimes we would stop and get water out of rivers or something, or stop to take pics, and we weren´t all in one big group, we could go at our own pace as long as we had a partner, and everyone got whistles in case someone got lost. the first night we got to the camp at about 3, after going down this really steep mountain slope for about two hours, (which we knew we would have to go back up the next day..agh) and we ate soup to warm us up until dinner, because yes it was colder than normal carribbean weather. then we hung out until dinner then went to bed. the next day we went to the peak! and it was pretty cool because i was in the first group to get there, so there were only a few of us up there so it wasnt too crowded, and the highest point is on a big pile of rocks with a statue of the head of juan pablo duarte and a dominican flag and a cross, so it was pretty awesome, and there was an incredible view of all the mountains all around, and the clouds in the mountains, and it was nice and sunny out, a perfect time to be there! then we started back down, running most of the way on the one big downhill that came down from the peak, then up the crazy steep mountain side, then we crossed a bunch of other mountains and valleys to get to this one valley where we would stay for threee nights, and we got there at about 3 again, and went to the river and ate and hung out, and that was pretty relaxing after walking alot...oh, the first day we walked 18 kilometers..second day 19..last day about 15..so a total of about 52 kilometers..which is like 31 or something miles. the first night in the valley was crazy (or so i heard) haha because i was sleeping because i was exhausted! but a bunch of people brought rum and beer..and the next morning the director lady was really pissed (she had reason to be) and woke everyone up at like 9 and called a group meeting and told everyone that if they dont want to pack up and go home that anyone who has any more alcohol has to bring it out, and then she dumped it out on the ground, haha, so that was pretty intense. the rest of the day was good though, we hung out and went to the river and jumped off rocks and stuff. the next day we went into a valley to play frisbee with these pro teams that were there, and it was sweet this valley was seriously like a fairy tale..lush green with horses and mountains and yeah. thennn someone apparently had stolen 2 million pesos from one of the volunteers, so they had to search all our bags and give us this big long talk about how dissappointing of a group we were..first the alcohol then this. ahh. then the next day they had the roasting pigs, and theeennn that night, there was a group of girls running around and one of them ran into something or something like that, and the got this big gash on her eyebrow, so they were all frazzled and everyone had to sleep in the clothes they were gonna wear the next day to be able to get her the hospital before 7 tge next day. ok, so moving on cuz im gonna run out of time!</div><div>i´ve joined a softball team and they´re pretty cool and nice, and i´m in a guitar class with ramona and julissa every monday and tuesday, so thats pretty fun. </div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-51976274129375022692008-11-24T10:40:00.001-08:002008-11-24T11:32:08.763-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyTg558XGSmUkNjH2xiTLgiECKSYlsOVVskn7JWGjQeEMlSUpKaAeMZOTmgFCtrhCE9dNIcSgVbpTz1ZjJ0EkBXGOEi_t3d6ZPprJhd5VeokIKL9Hbu6Sc7_y3rYWPCVxwxLE4X_ng8FM/s1600-h/SDC12914.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272308979240534610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" 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/><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrNkEEbT0RefitnXMqxf-QU_ZRg2wc2akZE4Ico3oCI1nct3Q3eH5px_m5hV-EHgUd18m2hAIiyzajLIkWR9AbttzoYK-mYDllXbMy0bCuxxl3hPwsQCHvPiL-FkrCGIRtc7KZ7MNgzI/s1600-h/SDC12690.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272304769451633506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrNkEEbT0RefitnXMqxf-QU_ZRg2wc2akZE4Ico3oCI1nct3Q3eH5px_m5hV-EHgUd18m2hAIiyzajLIkWR9AbttzoYK-mYDllXbMy0bCuxxl3hPwsQCHvPiL-FkrCGIRtc7KZ7MNgzI/s320/SDC12690.JPG" border="0" /></a> school trip in santo domingo ' the ocean!!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-3WfhsDiomK_mIhQN8kucaVHlWcMuxh9JiaTxOUl3XVTMjrzih1JHO8yhRsizu-SkEj-DlNLtqxFzkD6Td4GdP-iYTXcngPaLklJF_5wrTRujgcPnMnxWdPhurlGQjLHyBNhYBJut0M/s1600-h/SDC12660.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272304765215309138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-3WfhsDiomK_mIhQN8kucaVHlWcMuxh9JiaTxOUl3XVTMjrzih1JHO8yhRsizu-SkEj-DlNLtqxFzkD6Td4GdP-iYTXcngPaLklJF_5wrTRujgcPnMnxWdPhurlGQjLHyBNhYBJut0M/s320/SDC12660.JPG" border="0" /></a> on the bus<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIXveQDqqcfh_qljgEB81kkktba0mnttXiVmDPiQMUM9SV7uYlFtn3L71JSrCqzPiR3Ebomiu9lsVowk3_8bgG7farbEW0ohyphenhyphenfm0BUfQb29ckojdH-HA8_N0S1Twik5YA-D6QkvANDUU/s1600-h/SDC12645.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272304762476602066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIXveQDqqcfh_qljgEB81kkktba0mnttXiVmDPiQMUM9SV7uYlFtn3L71JSrCqzPiR3Ebomiu9lsVowk3_8bgG7farbEW0ohyphenhyphenfm0BUfQb29ckojdH-HA8_N0S1Twik5YA-D6QkvANDUU/s320/SDC12645.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />the bus<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTugEuc2WetmhkKhTBHqqZwXmKfH8Sbl6OdcjC5IxXfwXBAbUe6IcyA6Wtip255p6aLJaltv1ZghQMRFUdaTD8ZNB2lBSoFlwMm0DD7wnAC5OluViR9YwFI_cQs_lFU3x0c4v19n-6k8/s1600-h/SDC12618.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272304748492224146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTugEuc2WetmhkKhTBHqqZwXmKfH8Sbl6OdcjC5IxXfwXBAbUe6IcyA6Wtip255p6aLJaltv1ZghQMRFUdaTD8ZNB2lBSoFlwMm0DD7wnAC5OluViR9YwFI_cQs_lFU3x0c4v19n-6k8/s320/SDC12618.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />ramona and a friend with his dog<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-JQ5pRIv2MmQ5CFKtiyH6d3bSltLyOVqLMHTUgPxMosT9ChShb3i3aL1fg2XwjEgD07YeKwJrmcH-ChqC-5LuS4oqIow5TE2k1naWM5mxWNZbeeWW2buqPhEyCxBLoV0uEcYaVYzrfEk/s1600-h/SDC12605.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272304738907395826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-JQ5pRIv2MmQ5CFKtiyH6d3bSltLyOVqLMHTUgPxMosT9ChShb3i3aL1fg2XwjEgD07YeKwJrmcH-ChqC-5LuS4oqIow5TE2k1naWM5mxWNZbeeWW2buqPhEyCxBLoV0uEcYaVYzrfEk/s320/SDC12605.JPG" border="0" /></a> my host fam´s dog!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>Wow! It´s been so long since my last post! I left off in the week that i switched to my new host family. So lots of stuff has happened...in summary: Felix went home to Germany (ah, i was about to write Allemania..Germany in Spanish) I went to a crazy school movie, I went on a crazy school trip to Santo Domingo, I went to the campo (the country), i went to a crazy Halloween party, I went to the highest peak in the Carribbean, I joined a softball team, I went to Santo Domingo (the capital) with Ramona, and I´m learning alot of Spanish, and school has been good.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>Ok, so I´m not sure exactly why Felix went home.. I was in Caribe Tours one day waiting for my friends (haha, waiting as always..no just kidding) and Felix and Till were there, Felix with all of his stuff packed up, and he was waiting to get on the bus to Santo Domingo because AFS had called him and told him to go, so he thought he was going to change cities or families or something, and he was happy and everything..but when he got to Santo Domingo they told him he would go home the next tuesday. Agh. So that sucks.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>The school movie was reallllly different from movies here...The seniors in my school were hosting it, and it was in this old cinema..and it was a horror movie, i dont remember what it was called, something about mirrors being able to kill people..and every time something even remotely scary happened, EVeryone in the theatre would start to scream and yell and whistle and stuff like that...for a long time..and it was extremely loud! But fun none the less...i just had to get used to it. But then the projector broke, and everyone went outside and was listening to music and dancing, and another part of the culture here is that theres no drinking age..so of course there were people drinking. Whenever theres a party or movie or something that goes late here on the weekends, my host parents let me stay the night at Ramona´s house because its alot closer, which is cool...my house is really far from where most of my friends live.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>Ok, so on the school trip to Santo Domingo, we had to get up at three in the morning to be at the school at four to get on the bus, and the bus ride was intense...people were loud and crazy and yelling out the windows at random stuff and having fun..much different than a bus ride at four in the morning in homer..haha.. in santo domingo we went to a college for computers and we got a tour..then we went to a computer-informatica fair that was huge but kinda boring because it was all stuff about computers and technology and in spanish..the bus ride on the way back was just as crazy and we got back to san juan at about 8.30.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>One sunday i went to the country with Nini, the girl who lives in my house, to visit her boyfriend´s family. we rode a motoconcho out and visited and ate and went to a river for a few minutes, and everything was really pretty, then we went out to the real country and drank fresh coconut milk right out of a coconut that one of the people with us had climbed a tree and picked..i dont like coconut but i do like coconut milk! haha. then we went back to san juan in this taxi bus thing. so that was pretty fun.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>haha, so people here dont usually celebrate halloween, but they did have a school party..not many people dressed up, but they decorated the place all right...it was in this basement of this rented house place...so it got really hot..but it was fun. yes i danced. agh people dance crazy here. haha.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>ok, so the pico duarte trip for afs was amazing! ahhh. i left on a wednesday morning in the bus at 6 in the morning, got to santo domingo and rode a taxi to the house where everyone was meeting, and unfortunately left my cell phone in the taxi, the we went in three buses to the mountains and got to this little town where we ate and slept for the night, then woke up at four thirty in the morning to start walking! and we walked and walked and walked (well some people rode mules and they got to leave earlier) and walked until three in the afternoon where we stayed in this cam,ping spot for the rest of the day, and we ate soup and food and had a campfire, but had to go to bed at 8 because we got up at 4:30 again, to walk more, and on that day we went to the peak, and it was so beautiful! we were also really lucky because usually it rains alot allll the time in pico duarte, but for us it only rained once in the afternoon after we had finished hiking...and i have sooo many awesome pics of the peak. but unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries when we got to the valley where we stayed for three nights and swam in a river and jumped off high rocks into the river and played frisbee and hung out..and on the second to last day they were cooking pigs, but not in an oven...you know in movies when people get captured by native tribes and the tribes tie them to a stick and cook them over a fire? it was like that..we woke up in the morning and there were four raw pigs skewered on sticks roasting over the fires..and they were there alll day, it was really strange for me and other people but thats the common way to do it. ah, so i´m about to run out of time on the computer so i´ll have to finish another day. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-90176579565900849002008-10-04T09:24:00.000-07:002008-10-04T10:22:40.238-07:00Hello! It´s been a really long time since my last post. So this week I changed to my new family. They live really far away from my school and where most of my friends live.. And most of the time i walk places and its always really sunny and hot! But our family does have a car. <br />School is going good, Im´ getting used to it and i´ve had to memorize alot of different stuff and recite it in front of the class, which im getting used to too. Two weekends ago i went to another party where you had to wear green, yellow, or red, (colors on a stop light) and they all meant different things. I wore blue.. And i didnt stay for very long. I didnt really do anything..They tought me how to merengue for about two minutes, then I had to leave.<br />One day I went with Julissa to meet up with Orquidea and Ramona and Sheila to go to an orphanage to give the kids a bunch of our old toys that we dont use, but on our way to Orquidea´s house it started to rain realllly hard, so we ended up staying in Orquidea´s house (which is huge..they own a restaurant and a pool) and cooking spaghetti, the we went outside after the rain let up a little and played in the pool (which only had rain water in it) and after a while we ended up being soaked from head to toe from playing in the rain water. It was really fun. Then afterwards, we went inside and ate pizza from the restaurant, which was really good, too. Here they like to put corn on pizza, which is different, but tastes good. They also eat alot of things differently. Like meat, they eat allll parts of the chicken, including the feet! And they cook fish differently too, they dont cut off the head or the tail. Also, in Homer i eat plain grilled cheese sandwiches..but here they put ketchup and mayo and tomatoes and random sauces on ham and cheese sandwiches, and it´s really good! On Sunday I went to a karaoke club, with Eliza and Yomalsy, and they sung songs in Spanish and I learned how to merengue a little more (i´m not very good at it).<br />Then the next week there was a big book fair in my town, called the Ferie del Libro, and there were lots of booths with books, food, and places for people to read poetry and stuff like that. I went about every day, and it was fun, most of my friends went too. One day we were supposed to meet at 5:00 for our language class, but only three people showed up! haha. Wedesday we didnt have school because it was a holiday. I met up with Felix and Till alot too. That weekend there was another party that the seniors in my school were having. It was in the town casino. I didnt go for very long to that either. Then this week i´ve been hanging out with friends and with Till and Victor, walking around the town and doing homework! Here are some pictures of me and my friends in Orquidea´s house and in the Ferie del Libro:<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEvV16vPtzbvLXN6VvFw98mqVOgbQrrN3SL1zTUvjcF05r67WS11Ky3OeBStPswZqYgcgb4KeqkYerRLLvUwdfxUzC9X9vAt1i9JyUpOhWR-ZZVUZgTSIQfi1WRXhV7N41E4B7cMa34w/s1600-h/SDC12174.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253339582372003154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEvV16vPtzbvLXN6VvFw98mqVOgbQrrN3SL1zTUvjcF05r67WS11Ky3OeBStPswZqYgcgb4KeqkYerRLLvUwdfxUzC9X9vAt1i9JyUpOhWR-ZZVUZgTSIQfi1WRXhV7N41E4B7cMa34w/s320/SDC12174.JPG" border="0" /></a> Julissa, Ramona, and me with spaghetti horns<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253340572101554962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNrn6O5Ng9NKS4fBoS2a8EKWl9UimKonFdAbw1W-MN_omFCAmlAV-55HEqi5BknZVe1n8Q-w6aopPb_q4wdofC16VJ1MPuUNZkHBs6-hZrCm8SGl4WCO29bzWL7Db40JMPmvbsHlLDppU/s320/SDC12525.JPG" border="0" />Lots of people in the Ferie del Libro!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyS3BvpHqbjf75xp6VcHSlD5RSo8kq10dhXriEZ_v-P3oLpiDDl6D7SSxDRiCWZlVCX6igsdSnUafB7Q1IP6cr4SIh45j4MZYPOnmt8RJHu1vLFoupEmwKvj2WrHAd6mA8W-R4d-lx-Hc/s1600-h/SDC12184.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253339590983504370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyS3BvpHqbjf75xp6VcHSlD5RSo8kq10dhXriEZ_v-P3oLpiDDl6D7SSxDRiCWZlVCX6igsdSnUafB7Q1IP6cr4SIh45j4MZYPOnmt8RJHu1vLFoupEmwKvj2WrHAd6mA8W-R4d-lx-Hc/s320/SDC12184.JPG" border="0" /></a> Me and Orquidea<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253340565647088674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgvemCtiXFOf8pIMnEjPODJnyL7qKdWLSLiXlgMr-PIBXO8TKdUTXMOul0dYCNsdXSV02y5qNINGfQP3eeni3pMVaaRa09EPl45H2kTSYOYsi9b9RCUa9dV3t-ooZ4Bm033nouUwO-6f4/s320/SDC12256.JPG" border="0" />Ramona, me Sheila, and Orquidea<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuzeilo0n4NqxGUCFmTJ6TmDRyh4QBU74Zr-bi8VVEeZo7lleWMQKbr5N7oc6zfPbv0OVxOfykVVnk2sGufgzKHHMTP8S48o4ScdRa8_iDdnzPEIFD7a7f-OCC0YPdQp4tRoMFyn5VoU/s1600-h/SDC12185.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253339598908461890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuzeilo0n4NqxGUCFmTJ6TmDRyh4QBU74Zr-bi8VVEeZo7lleWMQKbr5N7oc6zfPbv0OVxOfykVVnk2sGufgzKHHMTP8S48o4ScdRa8_iDdnzPEIFD7a7f-OCC0YPdQp4tRoMFyn5VoU/s320/SDC12185.JPG" border="0" /></a> Me, Sheila, Ramona<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0H7X6oqjBhuvlJnCYdICj4fhk2_8-M7awZXYdfPmksEdj345JScDDt7IJN3drsbY4jM5TNeP5MXd2DSbHrv3KDgXkAm_yDsAMUCr3O-AnIpY084dp3mZmLklkBMh4WvmSJL8FdrVPbE/s1600-h/SDC12509.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253339604806886386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0H7X6oqjBhuvlJnCYdICj4fhk2_8-M7awZXYdfPmksEdj345JScDDt7IJN3drsbY4jM5TNeP5MXd2DSbHrv3KDgXkAm_yDsAMUCr3O-AnIpY084dp3mZmLklkBMh4WvmSJL8FdrVPbE/s320/SDC12509.JPG" border="0" /></a> Orquidea, Felix, me, Julissa in the Ferie<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi88K-baX0WXtyuvxH8KeB7j51XtmPKksXYQuBvZ8WTcFyHUsBKn_JQ3DFScL5gpO1cIKSfCsJRvnpWuc2mlm46eq2z8yABTwyJnVFYo_2OpKqLNM9YUOTWt_fulXS2RK9qvm4zWJZ5oi8/s1600-h/SDC12518.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253339603867705794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi88K-baX0WXtyuvxH8KeB7j51XtmPKksXYQuBvZ8WTcFyHUsBKn_JQ3DFScL5gpO1cIKSfCsJRvnpWuc2mlm46eq2z8yABTwyJnVFYo_2OpKqLNM9YUOTWt_fulXS2RK9qvm4zWJZ5oi8/s320/SDC12518.JPG" border="0" /></a> Ramona, Julissa, me, Cristal in the Ferie - uniforms!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcGNECzzkZYvLKERz1XHkM5YIQYH8nebSI-zh7TpxpHS_gPIAjKzRjZpCAs0jDJ4LnwL0KlLUGXD-CRqzRib75fwW7r-gPiK4PDbQbW6bi1RKiKgJkjBETEdZUqhHHVLEj-DfD0UWyoY/s1600-h/SDC12158.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253338036337730450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEcGNECzzkZYvLKERz1XHkM5YIQYH8nebSI-zh7TpxpHS_gPIAjKzRjZpCAs0jDJ4LnwL0KlLUGXD-CRqzRib75fwW7r-gPiK4PDbQbW6bi1RKiKgJkjBETEdZUqhHHVLEj-DfD0UWyoY/s320/SDC12158.JPG" border="0" /></a> Orquidea´s dad, Julissa, Sheila, Orquidea, and Ramona cooking<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqNntYTMkCp0CbkN6OtZl-s7lbMhMxr_RmIvaDN97cQi6TzK_4PNsxXpoQCPpP7LX2uWGfMlMXCVAicGWfsjzLyS74nxzhs2WXSdAEYx2sPWDMJdfjAEYCBk71_OsXpT9ZHYMGXl6Oc4/s1600-h/SDC12170.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253338046839219586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqNntYTMkCp0CbkN6OtZl-s7lbMhMxr_RmIvaDN97cQi6TzK_4PNsxXpoQCPpP7LX2uWGfMlMXCVAicGWfsjzLyS74nxzhs2WXSdAEYx2sPWDMJdfjAEYCBk71_OsXpT9ZHYMGXl6Oc4/s320/SDC12170.JPG" border="0" /></a> me Julissa and Ramona<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTPVre7d_c7-5hLNkge7eeWK7xSNfsF3DhifspBUdQX9BLLGgCTrjRgzPdnJ6o-qfyRn2Dpo_H63vg40mJ8SprjyWEaGe6U3Wm5S7ASKEjdpDTKx6ln6ffPIZRxh8xpHB0ecXA5dxNro/s1600-h/SDC12175.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253338045037739778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTPVre7d_c7-5hLNkge7eeWK7xSNfsF3DhifspBUdQX9BLLGgCTrjRgzPdnJ6o-qfyRn2Dpo_H63vg40mJ8SprjyWEaGe6U3Wm5S7ASKEjdpDTKx6ln6ffPIZRxh8xpHB0ecXA5dxNro/s320/SDC12175.JPG" border="0" /></a> us eating the spaghetti dinner we cooked<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzmFz0i1tro1Cz29vWdQlcZ9b0lX4s-oXtc_F-awXU8RgbfcHx7JTh1JzK_VpQWqQtD6BtHbnu9r1-qV-9Bng4mLa1NNnTrAI-1OmAemXABVA8UXSdFtDCQcFtpZSL0CYinNLSLSZr6Q/s1600-h/SDC12196.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253338050665598850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzmFz0i1tro1Cz29vWdQlcZ9b0lX4s-oXtc_F-awXU8RgbfcHx7JTh1JzK_VpQWqQtD6BtHbnu9r1-qV-9Bng4mLa1NNnTrAI-1OmAemXABVA8UXSdFtDCQcFtpZSL0CYinNLSLSZr6Q/s320/SDC12196.JPG" border="0" /></a> me ramona, julissa, and orquidea in the pool<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj01V2Ww_uqlzcXk4ZKiYz-85CK-7r3wSRzQG89t3aVsvJPqEJ3LpyveVON7r5vUXwOyOhY_LAmL2ZpZ20QvNzP4Ztd1oZTilZ3r9ZwRGLG9DLvIWz8IAz8Oy9KlHsJOOjbq-Gf_k6Prxw/s1600-h/SDC12503.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253338048051893250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj01V2Ww_uqlzcXk4ZKiYz-85CK-7r3wSRzQG89t3aVsvJPqEJ3LpyveVON7r5vUXwOyOhY_LAmL2ZpZ20QvNzP4Ztd1oZTilZ3r9ZwRGLG9DLvIWz8IAz8Oy9KlHsJOOjbq-Gf_k6Prxw/s320/SDC12503.JPG" border="0" /></a> Cristal, me and Ramona in the Ferie - with uniforms<br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /></div>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-68963616981819565492008-09-17T13:43:00.000-07:002008-09-17T14:17:01.467-07:00<div align="center"> Pictures!!!<br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5dw3UfSwWE6z-YcyGgV3YSwts3pLH26z5mLwpCk1xYrzQAUpSxWeGFFO8YdO-dNx3xx1ykGvnMUmDpIm-5s5KwzeEzhph94nhhj6c1zzYHkQ7LYSfDnRqoi81QgFeq4wZQqI8RL-Vy0k/s1600-h/Imagen+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247098272847856674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5dw3UfSwWE6z-YcyGgV3YSwts3pLH26z5mLwpCk1xYrzQAUpSxWeGFFO8YdO-dNx3xx1ykGvnMUmDpIm-5s5KwzeEzhph94nhhj6c1zzYHkQ7LYSfDnRqoi81QgFeq4wZQqI8RL-Vy0k/s320/Imagen+003.jpg" border="0" /></a> Me and six other AFSers. Four are from </div><br /><div align="center">the U.S., one from Italy and one from Germany (i think Germany)<br /></div><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizjrxJNdnUMv8wt9S9r31_KUor2L5lGMaS4YXlOYSP1mBSiS8AYFBbNVfOtuC_63heSAS6eLe3XHD0o2J7USUyNzAMLcc6PAaxQYfqyvOvbcawg7u6liSl6J4hXL-CjyZtCz-Syr91VM/s1600-h/Imagen+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247098282508985090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizjrxJNdnUMv8wt9S9r31_KUor2L5lGMaS4YXlOYSP1mBSiS8AYFBbNVfOtuC_63heSAS6eLe3XHD0o2J7USUyNzAMLcc6PAaxQYfqyvOvbcawg7u6liSl6J4hXL-CjyZtCz-Syr91VM/s320/Imagen+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> My little brother (Angel) and my host mom</p><br /><p><br /></p><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptBZClwiBBN-Jrau4gyKns2bZbBItVXC-HO-jRyXhSFL_Zrs83uAIo_2fgJMcQGd1j7dkMF-iLvasdeFd92P5X4BQ-TILC1hxr3wyTACEMukGGFc0DN-MrhBOOtKbPtavRux7z8eSJHA/s1600-h/Imagen+004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247098288523781714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptBZClwiBBN-Jrau4gyKns2bZbBItVXC-HO-jRyXhSFL_Zrs83uAIo_2fgJMcQGd1j7dkMF-iLvasdeFd92P5X4BQ-TILC1hxr3wyTACEMukGGFc0DN-MrhBOOtKbPtavRux7z8eSJHA/s320/Imagen+004.jpg" border="0" /></a> A Castle in the colonial part of Santo Doming. We climbed all the way to the top! </p><br /><p align="center">there was an awesome view.</p><br /><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247101193495979810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSnE3luXWufO5KC1W6ayCCfO7Am6wJniKxBIObmjy7KCdJdM0xXM1FQ2Bz60bmutgNfjX3jA9oeaF-RZKtBLn1Jp7sBppeAIvZ0RBy_SQemvsP8HmXpBF_Kvj5oHrGhauKdoD6443q6yg/s320/Imagen+008.jpg" border="0" />Me and Yomalsy in an ice cream shop while walking around town.<br /></p><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAu9jCt5hv8kDDtVNGXmelhucdey2TXr8iAARSrZQN2cXv9Nz0v8o7bZQbiiYCrEJiO5h-F-QQky31o7MC5Yz973lNIk4m0mfz6J2ueLhydlX21Maae8MPHOnpQmVQGUDp8yiqsMmOl0/s1600-h/Imagen+005.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247098289428359282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAu9jCt5hv8kDDtVNGXmelhucdey2TXr8iAARSrZQN2cXv9Nz0v8o7bZQbiiYCrEJiO5h-F-QQky31o7MC5Yz973lNIk4m0mfz6J2ueLhydlX21Maae8MPHOnpQmVQGUDp8yiqsMmOl0/s320/Imagen+005.jpg" border="0" /></a> Me and Andrea, and AFS advisor, in the AFS camp.</p><br /><p><br /></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgguOYzqAQpmKDKKWfcE8FIszibZbEuThkX9uRRhaYQ1SZBUCgNkU098b1Xsi6zUHU_KfzzteEV7HTC-0CjzzWzO7oZeyaSJmocJLNK3HIei2FoRPV2d17hkOa85ZzBJ1hLjXNHzr4fYrw/s1600-h/Imagen+006.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247098294098051506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgguOYzqAQpmKDKKWfcE8FIszibZbEuThkX9uRRhaYQ1SZBUCgNkU098b1Xsi6zUHU_KfzzteEV7HTC-0CjzzWzO7oZeyaSJmocJLNK3HIei2FoRPV2d17hkOa85ZzBJ1hLjXNHzr4fYrw/s320/Imagen+006.jpg" border="0" /><br /><p align="center"></a>Front View of my school.<br /></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247101192186190114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTbTUfGhgP-pihsgB-KLq1ru27kkc9u-PwwSU09kn8mjNzSkyB_kCcMLtGGqbiYR1hJonLgxGf12GrZAHQ-xMgH8qX6Am4bml1eHILj_KpoNlBUeDEYe1x-8lpXLTWgNFhfEXjJdCsaU/s320/Imagen+007.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center">My class (uniforms!)<br /></p>Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-3806187567187947582008-09-13T13:31:00.001-07:002008-09-13T14:03:29.109-07:00Hello everyone! Okay, so I had five days of school this week! A new record! It only rained three or four times in the evenings, and one time there was a lightning and thunder storm, but we still had school the next day.<br />Lots of things happened this week! On Monday I played softball (yay!) not with a team but with one of my friends and her dad and her brothers. I like to play catch in my street alot. There are always a bunch of people who will play with me, and its kind´ve funny because theres always people watching..And then we went to the stadium (it´s an olympic stadium...not like olympic games stadium, but it has a tennis court, a baseball field, a skate park, a track..and much more!) and I got to play baseball with Ramona and with a group of guys who was playing there. We only hit because we didnt have our gloves with us, but it was fun.<br />On Tuesday after school we had a study group. My grade is divided into two classes, and the classes are divided into groups..I haven´t figured out how the groups are divided yet..But anyways, we met at one of our friend´s houses and did some homework, and then afterwards we went to this club meeting. The club was this group of teens who holds parties and movies to raise money for food for children in need. The meeting was fun I guess but i didn´t really understand what people were saying. I think they were planning to have a movie night at one of the schools.<br />Wednesday after school I met up with Felix and Till, the two exchange students from Germany who live in my town. We walked around a bit, and then it started to rain a little, and the clouds were extremely dark and there was lighning in the distance, so we hurried to my house but it was locked (i dont have a key) so we waited in Julissa´s house for the rain to ease up a little (it was coming down really hard) and then Felix and Till left and I waited for my parents to come home from work.<br />Thursday was my first day with a full normal uniform (there are sport uniforms and normal uniforms..you wear sport uniforms on the days you have P.E.) In class we played this game where you write a random question that starts with ¨por que¨then put it in a hat and draw someone elses´question and answer it with porque...whatever, then put it in a hat and draw another question and answer, and then you go around the room and one person reads the question out loud and the person behind them answers with the answer on their paper, and then they read their question out loud and the person behind them answers, and so on.<br />After school I hung out and did homework in another study group at Carolina´s house.<br />On Friday in school we played that game again. And it was kind´ve awkward because some of the questions were about me (haha). Then, after school we went home and I worked on translating this paper that I have to read out loud in front of the class on Monday...and the translation doesnt really make sense! haha.<br />Then, I met up with Till and Felix again, and we walked around a little bit and tried to go to the bank to change money, but all banks here are closed at 5...<br />So then I went home and then played catch and then walked to a party with Julissa, Cristal and Felix, at Felix´s house (which is huge!)<br />At the party there were lots of people from my school and Felix´s school and Till´s school (we all go to different schools) and i met lots of people. There was dancing but i didnt dance because it was kind of crazy! And people were supposed to wear white because there were black lights and strobe lights.. And that was fun, and afterwards we rode home with Cristal´s dad.<br />And today, Saturday, I havent done anything...I tried to sleep in but I can never sleep past 930 here..i dont know why. but i guess that is sleeping in. Haha. Then I walked around town a little with Yomalsy, and we came here to this internet place.<br />In Febuary, theres an AFS trip to Pico Duarte, which is the tallest peak in the Carribbean! I´m really excited because it will be cold when we get higher up! and I miss the cold! Haha, It´s like in the winter time when I really want summer...But now that I´m always hot all the time except when i´m taking a shower (always cold, haha) I wish it was cold outside.<br />Anyways, the trip to Pico Duarte is for 6 days and we will go all the way to the top, so I´m really excited for that, I´ve always wanted to climb a mountain!<br />So, that´s all I can think of to write right now.. Thanks for commenting...I miss everyone!Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-21039307037426257212008-09-05T07:45:00.000-07:002008-09-05T08:34:33.218-07:00Hello everyone! Okay, so i left off on Tuesday with my first day off from school. We had the next day off, and Thursday I went to school again. I figured out that I have more classes, and that the schedule is different every day. All the classes I have are math, spanish, P.E., computer, french, biology, history, orientation, art, civic, and religion. Wow. On Thursday I was just about as lost in class as I was on Monday, but thats ok. After school on Thursday, I rode the bus to Santo Domingo with my host sister for an AFS welcoming party. We got to the party an hour and a half late, and it was at this big fancy club place. It was fun and I got to meet some other people who are here from other countries on a foreign exchange with AFS. That night, I stayed with the five other girls from the U.S. who are here. We slept at one of the girls houses in Santo Domingo, and stayed up late talking. It was nice to talk to people in English :) The next day we got up early and all of the people from around the world who are here in the Dominican Republic with AFS went on buses to the colonial part of Santo Domingo, where there were castles and old buildings and monuments and it was pretty cool. I took lots of pictures, but I didnt take my camera today so Ill have to post pictures later. Anyways, after we walked around colonial Santo Domingo for a few hours, we went to this camp. It wasnt exactly a camp, but thats what they called it. It was about 45 minutes out of Santo Domingo, and it was this nice resort-ish place with a pool and a volleyball net and lots of trampolines. We gathered into groups and had meetings about safety tips and stuff like that. It was pretty fun, because all of the AFS advisors are in their 20s so it was pretty relaxed, very different from AFS in the U.S. because they let us do pretty much whatever we wanted. We hung out and ate good food and played volleyball alot. The next day we all went back to Santo Domingo, and then back to our host families. I was supposed to get picked up by my host sister, but AFS told me she called and asked them if I could stay with K.C., another AFSer, in Azua with her family. Azua is about an hour out of San Juan. So we rode the bus to Azua and went to K.C.s house. All this time I didnt really know what was happening, or why I was going, because nobody really knew. The AFS program director told me that it had something to do with my family being sick, so that didnt help and just made me worry more. Anyways, we went to get pizza at this pizzeria, and it was corn and chicken pizza. It sounds kinda weird, but it was actually really good. After that, we went to KCs house and changed then went to the park. By then it was already like 10 P.M. We walked around the park once, where there were a few people and loud music playing, then we moved on to this outdoor party thing with lots of booths for food and beer and soda, and tons of people. We danced a little, and some people showed me how to Bachata and Merengue (I cant really tell the difference). After that we went home and slept. The next day we just hung out because it was Sunday, and didnt do that much. But KC plays softball, so we decided to find a ball and throw some. A friend of one of the girls who lives in KCs house had a lefty mitt, and we found a softball. Then, there were two little boys who wanted to play with us, so we set up a little game in the street with random stuff for bases and a piece of wood for a bat. It was fun :)<br />That night we went to the park again, and then to the same party that was still going on. This time we didnt dance, because there was this random pageant thing going on, where they were crowning the new Queen of Azua...It was random. And then they had fireworks. Hahaha. It wasnt very smart of them...they had them right in the middle of all the people.<br />The next day, I was really anxious to know what was going on, because i had talked to AFS the day before and they didnt know either, so I talked to Andrea, an AFS advisor, and she called my sister and my sister said that she would pick me up at four oclock. She found our house at like 5 and then we took the bus to San Juan. That was on Monday, and apparently there was some kind of party at the school that I missed or something.<br />The next day I went to school and we only had classes for about an hour and then all the students left because there were teacher meetings. I walked around town with my friends Yomalsy and Julissa and we tried to find a cafe with internet, but the internet was down everywhere (that happens alot here). So we stopped in a bakery and got cake and then walked around some more and then went back to the school, and then went home. The next two days we didnt have school because of the rain, apparently there was a type 1 tropical storm nearby named Ike, and the whole country was on red alert. But the storm didnt hit us, all we got was some rain. For those two days I didnt do much other than hang out with people and do homework and read a little. Oh, and my uniform is being made..the school has uniforms but they dont hand them out..you have to go out and buy them somewhere...<br />And I got my sport uniform. My school, CEILU, has a softball team and a volleyball team..and a basket ball team too, i think. Im hoping to join the softball team :)<br />Oh, and the food here is really good! There is lots of rice and beans and fruit..one time i had a lot of really good mango for breakfast...it was amazing! They have lots of mangoes here..and platanos (plantains) which look like big green bananas but dont taste anything like them. And the music is really good too. They listen to alot of rap and alot of latin pop music..and its pretty good. They like Daddy Yankee alot. And theres always loud music playing somewhere. Like..on my street someone will randomly turn up there music really really loud so that you can hear it everywhere..and theres always the same like ten songs playing all the time :) its funny but it can get a little annoying if you want it to be quiet. Lots of things here are different from what we have in the U.S. The electricity goes out on average three times a day..for a few hours. And not all of the toilets flush all the time. (luckily the one in my house does) In the bus station, if you want to use the toilet (this is really gross, sorry) they are all clogged with everything...yeah..and smell really bad. Oh, and theres random really skinny dogs walking around in the streets and its really sad :( and it seems like lots of people are afraid of dogs..<br />Anyways, right now its Friday and really nice and sunny and blue skies. Theres a really nice view of the mountains from my school. Today we didnt have school because only like..one eighth of the students came. My host sister told me that here theres always an excuse not to go to school...haha. But we came anyways. We go most days that there isnt school just to make sure that there arent classes.<br />So, I got some comments asking about my house.. Its small but cozy. I have my own room, which is really nice, and the living room has a couch two chairs and a small t.v. When you first go in my house there{s a little sitting place, like a porch, which almost all houses have. Then, you go inside and theres the living room and then you go straight down a hallway and theres three bedrooms off to the right and then the bathroom off to the right, and then the kitchen. There{s no pets, but in my other house there is a dog named Campion and a cat..whose name i dont know. <br />Okay, well, I dont know what more to say! I think i covered most of it.. Hope everything is going well for everyone! Thanks for all the comments, sorry if i dont get back to you..i hope the blogs can answer questions.<br />:)Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6768190122443892756.post-64115995332102062582008-08-26T07:20:00.000-07:002008-08-26T07:42:14.285-07:00Finally in the D.R.!Hello everyone!<br />I am here in the D.R. in the school that I go to on my host sister's computer. She is a teacher here at the school. Yesterday was my first day of school and not very many people speak english, so it was a little scary for me. It is currently raining and here they cancel shool when it's raining ( I wish they did that in Homer!) I'm not really sure why they do that, and my host sister tried to explain it to me but I couldn't really understand.<br />When I left Alaska, I went to an orientation in Miami where everyone who was going on an exchange to South America from the U.S. met and got prepared. There were six people going to the Dominican Republic.<br />When we landed in Santo Domingo, the capital of the D.R., another exchange student and I got picked up by her host family and we went to this big Italian dinner thing at the host family's friend's house. There were five courses! And on their t.v. they had a video of one of Celene Dion's concerts playing over and over, I guess they like her alot :) after the dinner we stayed at the host family's house and watched 3.10 to Yuma with the host brother (we watched it in english because that host family knew english very well. People in Santo Domingo speak english alot..but other places not so much). The next day I rode the bus to San Juan and met my host family there, and I was feeling a little homesick so the AFS people who spoke english let me go with them to Las Matas for the night so I could get more accustomed. I also found out that I'm only staying with my host family for a month, and then moving to a different family for the other 9 months. This is because the family is going to Europe for a month so I need a place to stay.<br />Both of my host families are very nice, even though none of the parents speak any english, but my one host sister does a little. I'm learning more Spanish every day, which is good.<br />The school I go to is good, the classes I have are trigonometry, Spanish, physical education, informatica (a computer class) and French. French and Spanish are pretty hard... because I have to go from Spanish to French. But the French teacher is also the English teacher, so that helps.<br />Everyone here is very nice and welcoming so that is good. One thing that's really different is when I'm walking down the street, guys will whistle or yell, "Hola, Rubia!" which is "Hello, Blonde!" because noone here has blonde hair or blue eyes. It's kind've funny but it gets annoying.<br />Well, that's about all I can think of to say right now! Please comment or send me an email or something..I want to hear from everyone! How's Homer going? How's school there? Anything new? Miss you all alot! Lots of love.Ha!leyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12344277289956482842noreply@blogger.com12