We went to the capital a couple of weeks ago for a Peace Corps Thanksgiving dinner. I actually went a few days before for a TESL class, but Nick didn’t come down for another day because he got the days confused and had scheduled to do a charla (presentation) over cholera to the high school [...]
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so this blog is going to go back into my life as it was in the campo for the five weeks where Nick and I had seperate training. I am sending emails back and forth with a class in chicago about my experience in the peace corps and thought that the email might be interesting [...]
We have finally made it to the community we will call home for the next two years! We have spent the last 5 days in Peralta, Azua with our new host family. We will be living with an older couple (I’m guessing they are in their mid 60s) who no longer has any children at [...]
Sorry it has been awhile since we have had an update. it has been crazy and access to the internet is sketchy for me (nick) and sarah does not have any. in the past two weeks, i have had two qualifying spanish presentations. The first was a community diagnostic for a total of 15 mins [...]
It has been a crazy past few weeks. Sarah and I each went our separate ways for specific training in different parts of the country two thursdays ago (sept 9th). We will be able to see each other again Oct. 3. Sarah is in the north and I am in the center of the country. [...]
Over the weekend Nick and I went to visit volunteers who have been serving for a year already. I went to Samana, which was beautiful! We went to the beach and swam in the ocean and had a great time. I got along really well with the volunteer so hopefully I will be able to [...]
Okay… sorry this is so late, but we will be posting more regularly from here on out (like once a week or so). We have settled in to our new lives in the Republica Dominicana as we begin training near Santo Domingo in a small city called Pantoja. We live with a host family in [...]
Wow! I can’t believe we are only two weeks away from the Dominican Republic! We leave Indiana August 10th to go to Washington D.C. where we will visit with my (Sarah’s) parents and sister for a week before leaving the states. We have “Staging” on August 18th (in DC), which is basically a day of [...]
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