It's already October! I can't believe it! Time is going by fast down here! Friday was a fun day, Monica and I and a couple other Americans from our team decided to have dinner by the river. One of our team members had brought a camp stove so we set up camp in the pitch dark and used flashlights to cook some homemade pizzas and cinnamin rolls. It was a lot of fun and the food actually turned out good!
Saturday we traveled to Santiago. The city was packed full of people and it was really hot. We went to two different museums which was interesting because out tours were in Sapnish! So I stuck by Brent (our director) and together we could get most of what he was saying. Then we went to their independance statue that we called "The Woman" and got to walk up to the top. After racing up all of the flights of stairs we got to the top and had a great veiw of the city.
Sunday was a blast. I went to church and met some Americans that were missionaries to jarabacoa and taught in the Christian school here. Come to find out she graduated from Taylor, and was friends with Kyle Lantz (my boyfriends brother!) It's such a small world. Then we realized that our Spanish teacher (Serai who is about our age) is good friends with them so she invited us to all hang out next week! It will be fun getting to know them better.
Monica and I have become really good friends with the family that lives down the road from us. They are also hosting 2 of the Americans from our team. They are a really strong Christian family and their nephew, Alberto, is a teacher for SI. We love going over there because you feel right at home. Last night a girl from our team had a birthday party so the Dominican family threw a fiesta and showed us Americans how to have fun! It was a blast. Dominicas think its so funny when we try to dance, because compared to them we just look bad. So we decided after an hour of humiliating ourselves at the merengue we would teach them some American moves-so we did and they loved it! Monica and I showed the girls Julia (15), and Genesis (9), how to do the electric slide, line dancing, and the YMCA for 2 hours straight (they had American music- we couldn't believe it!) It was so much fun....we laughed a lot, danced a lot, as always ATE a lot :) (The Dominicans loove to feed us!)
Hope all is going well back home! Miss you!
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Dance parties (or karaoke parties in my case) in another country sure are memorable, aren't they? We should try to send the Cha Cha Slide down to you. Keep having tons of fun!
Alison,
Who was the girl from Taylor that you met?
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