Almost done in the DR

So it has been three plus months since a blog post and upon my return to the United States i recieved some sharp critisism about my pause from posting. No real reason here for the pause but now is better than never...so here we go.

I spent the month of April doing things...(cant really remember, so we will say that I celebrated truning 24 years old sitting in my house drinking an Ice Cold Presidente that was gifted to me by my host mom). Then ther was of course some preperation for the All Volunteer Conference in the Capitol. During this whole period of three months, starting in April, I grappled with the decision to go home for a vacation to regain some of my sanity...i still had not decided by the end of this month and it drove me to new heights of crazy.

May was good with the Conference and some visits to the South with my main man Justin Lee. We went to the Bay of Eagles and did some jumping off of cliffs in a rather enjoyable break from my site. I continued work with the Women and their PB efforts with some more managing alterations and some healthy and safe food preperation classes. My kids were just finishing their school year and we were beggining some of the first classes for the summer. Still no decision had been made on the trip home and I tried to not start refering to myself as crazy.

June was a better month. I was able to finally decide that a trip home was the only thing to fix my incurrable insanity and the ticket was purchased with the help of my M & D on a low interest rate payback plan due some time in October. This made me feel good. I only had about two weeks until i headed homw and with a variety of meetings in and around the capitol i decided to travel a bit before leaving as opposed to sitting in my house alone for 5 days. I was able to help out at a Veteranarian Medical mission to spay and nueter dogs and horses and cats, and pigs...etc..... and then aome easy days beofre the plane ride home.

June 15th I set off at about 5am and through soemwhat stressful seating arrangments and 9 hours in the Miami Airport I made it home around 7 pm to be picked up by S Curtis himself, whom i hadn't seen in two years. All of this felt great, i did however need a couple days to adjust to the USA before i really came out of the ol' shell. All things apart...it was amazing with Camping, friends, Family and Cousins, and Babies and Dinners, and Waterworld, golfing, USA Soccer, Rockies Baseball, Weddings and Microbrews, Driving a car, using the Wash and Micro, and all in all just getting a handle on my life come finish time in October.

Here it is... Colorado til Thanksgiving, Cali til Christmas, and then moving somewhere til Grad school in August. Decidely i am a west coast man and will be that way for some time to come. I really want to thank everyone that had a part in my trip home as you all made it wonderful and have been so supportive of me in the last two years abroad! I cant wait to come back!

For now, I have some events with youth at the end of July, Close of Service Conference in August, wrapping up PB as a fully sustainable income earning project that i hope to see alive and well come 5 years from now, and soaking in all the beauty and ugly that this island has to offer so as not to forget it when i come home to the USA.

It will fly by just as the last two years have. If you'd like to fly down, you have til October 29th.

Les Quiero a Todos!

Jeff Gregg Wahl