Back to my Campo Life...

So I have just come to the realization of how much I actually like being in my site. Everything costs so much in the Capital and its never my bed that I am sleeping in. But heres whats happened since a while back.

I celebrated Noche Buena, Christmas Eve, with my family at their house, with all the extended family members coming home from the Cap. to the Campo. We ate more food than we normally do, but there is no exchange of gifts or anything like that until the 6th of Jan. which is 3 kings day, symbolic of when the 3 kings brought baby Jesus gifts. However, I would be surprised if there was gifts given at all where I live. We will see about that when I go back tomorrow. If I know one thing for sure, every single person will expect me to give them something. Which is quite frustrating.

After xmas I hosted a couch surfer named Jaeson from SanFrancisco. I put up my house and extra bed almost as a joke on The website and was surprised when i had a request not a week later. I have had 3 more since then! I have only hosted one though i will be hosting a girl from New Jersey later this month. I think the reason I am so popular is because of my close proximity to Haiti (20km), so many people want a place along their way to see the border/cross etc...

I left my campo at 6am on the 30th to travel 7 hours to the site of my Friend Rachell, we met sith some other volunteers and stayed the night there on the floor. We then went to a beach on the 31st in a town called Cabarete. I felt like that i was in America...it was so nice copared to where I live every day. So we found a buget hotel deal by cramming everyone into one bed. I layed on the beach drank rum and chinola juice at Happy Hour, stayed out for fireworks on the beach at midnight and hit the floor at about 3. The next day we ate like kings, drank at Jose Oshea's an Irish Pub where they had a bottomless pint for 2 hours for 6 dollars! My night ended earlier this time as we had to travel to the capital the next day, but I really enjoyed the beach. I even went and spoke with some of the local realtors in that area of the country.

No I am back in the Capital and I recieved my computer from a volunteer who visited the states and brought it back. I am having some trouble connecting to the Wireless here i think bc of a wireless driver issue, as well as seeing some of the movies that Grant had put on for me, but other than that it is absolutely amazing to have all this music and ease of using a computer! I really am thankful for all that my family did to get it here.

So I am headed back tomorrow and wont be back to Santo Domingo until Febuarary for a training with my fellow volunteers, but I am looking forward to some more couch surfers and Zak is coming out at the end of Feb. for Carnival Celebration.

Hope everyones New Year was Great and heres to having a great 2009!