Well, I have arrived in the Dominican Republic about 10 days ago, and have been busy since getting acclimated and getting our project this summer off the ground!
I arrived in Santo Domingo a day before my companñeros did, and so I went to our hotel Pension La Quisqueyana and began to get to know Santo Domingo. I´ve been to the D.R. twice before, but I´ve never spent much time in Santo Domingo on my own, so it was nice to walk around and get to know the neighborhood I was in. I waited til the sun cooled a bit, and then walked out to the ocean, and around and around and around! Finally I found a great little sandwich shop and had a nice ham and cheese sandwich.
When Mason and Liz arrived the next day, I had explored some more and showed them around. We stayed in Santo Domingo for the weekend to hang out, eat some pizza on El Conde, and get ready for our first PLAN meeting!
Monday morning we met with the PLAN International office and had a great meeting to plan out the work between Plan and AMIGOS this summer. It was interesting to meet so many people and to learn more about how this international non-profit operates in the capital city and surrounding areas.
After our meeting we went directly to the bus station to head to San Juan de la Maguana, the host city for AMIGOS this summer. We spent most of our time in San Juan looking for a house and beginning to meet with the San Juan PLAN office to start collaborations for our summer.
Project Supervisors arrive tomorrow, so we´ve got a lot to do before they arrive!
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