Oh, man!  It’s been a while since I’ve updated “Books and Babies”….mostly because I’ve been busy with books and a baby!  This semester is coming to a close, and we made it!  Thanks to the support of family and friends, I think I did pretty well in my classes this semester, Darryl and I are [...]

For the last several months, I’ve been thinking “man, this fall is going to be crazy!”  And when I tell people my due date and my plans to start school, they tell me, “Wow, you’re going to have a busy fall!”  Guess what folks? Fall is here!  My first class is tomorrow (I have reading/or [...]

Well, it’s time!  I’ve been in Arizona for 7 weeks, I’m 8 months pregnant, and there’s about a month before orientation at Duke begins.  Darryl has a new job and we have a new place to live.  Things have fallen into place whether we believed they would or not.  Definitely a lesson in faith… I’m equal [...]

Hey everybody! You may have heard, but we are back in the US for good now.  All in all, the Peace Corps has been a life-changing experience and I do not regret  the year and a half we spent in the DR at all.  People say it’s like a roller coaster, and as cliche as it sounds, it really is!  [...]

Hey hey hey! The new group of youth and health volunteers are here and in training so Darryl and I are officially experienced volunteers!  We were invited to speak to the new group and answer questions about projects and about life in general, and it felt good to see how far we’ve come.  So, what does [...]

A lot has been going on since my last blog.  My mom came to visit, I went to the US for my friend’s wedding in Las Vegas, we celebrated the 4th of July with a group of volunteers, I started a dance/movement club of girls, we are in full swing with Escojo Mi Vida (I [...]

Since the last time I’ve blogged, I got a computer virus that was so terrible it would shut down the computer whenever we tried to download anti-virus software.  Thank goodness we got that fixed and we were able to save 90% of our files which is huge!  I was relieved.  I also planned and ran [...]

Hi there! This post is to put some pictures up.  Things are really in full swing for us here in the DR.  The Sala de Tarea is going well and the English classes too.  Since my foot is better, I´ve re-started volleyball practice (the girls are between 10 and 13) and that´s going well too.  They [...]

Hello faithful blog readers!  You will be happy to know that my DR surgery went well and my foot is healing quite nicely.  I’m down to one crutch sometimes and a walking cast so I am very happy that I can get around pretty well.  Two to three weeks to go and hopefully I’ll be [...]

Friday February 20, two days before my birthday, it happened.  I broke my foot.  Here’s how it happened…Darryl and I went to the capital for Committee Weekend.  This is a time to sign up and help plan summer camps for the youth we work with.   Well, in the Peace Corps office, there is a box [...]

Hi Everyone! We are in a new site - Villa Hermosa, La Romana - and it´s great!  I´ll tell you more about it in the next entry, but to sum it up we have more support and we´re ready to work!  We just came back from a conference where we learned a lot about exactly how [...]

So it’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog, and it’s because I’ve been waiting for news to tell. Darryl and I had to change our site and things have been up in the air for about 3 weeks now. In Guaymate (old site), our youth group was not very active. And sometimes, this [...]

Hey there! Here are some more pictures on our photo website. Check em out! Paz, Trenita http://childerspeacecorps.shutterfly.com/ Authored by trenita. Hosted by Edublogs. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftrenita.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F11%2F26%2Fpictures-of-our-life-so-far%2F'; addthis_title = 'Pictures+of+our+life+so+far'; addthis_pub = '';

I know I just posted but I had to tell you all that the swearing-in ceremony was great!  The US Ambassador (and his security men talking into their sleeves) was there and guess what?  Every time a group swears in, they choose one of the trainees to speak on behalf of the new group, and [...]

Hey there! So, as of tomorrow, we are officially done with training!  Yay!!!  I’m so glad to be done with it and ready to get started in Guaymate - our community.  We did a 4-day visit and we met our new host family (our 3rd host family) and they seem really nice, but it’s going to [...]

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*NOTE: I ususally write an entry at my house, then go to the internet cafe to post it.  It saves money…but I wrote this one last weekend, and I’m just now able to get to internet to post it.  I wrote this on Sunday. Today was a very good day…and I needed a good day [...]

  Hola todos!   We’re here and we are happy and safe the last few days have been a whirlwind but everything is going well. Here is our timeline: We had some pre-training in Miami, then we left for Santo Domingo (where we are for 3 weeks of language and culture training), then we will go into [...]

Hi everyone!  I can’t believe it’s almost here!  I have spent the last couple of weeks visiting family in Cincinnati and Chicago and it was so good to see everyone and catch up with friends I hadn’t talked to in a while.  So here’s what I did on my trip: My dad came to Charlotte to [...]