Today we went to visit one of the employees of DREAM, Felicia at her house. DREAM employs her to clean and she is so kind. We walked up to her house (hut) which was only about 10 minutes up the mountain from the DREAM center and we felt like we had gone to another country. It was so beautiful! There were roosters and all kinds of animals (including naked children) running around, every kind of tropical plant you can imagine, ruins of old stone buildings and whatever else you might picture in the jungle. It was so strange to walk up a road just a few minutes and leave the hustle and bustle of motorcycle taxis zooming by and street vendors selling and enter a tranquil and peaceful piece of nature. We walked around her family's land and looked at their platano (bananas that are more like potatoes that they fry and eat with salt and ketchup) trees, pineapples, avocado trees, orange trees, and some fruit called buenpan. I don't know what it was. They looked like small green pumpkins growing on a REALLY tall tree. Who knows! We bought some mangos out of the back of some guy's truck. We have also tried guava and passion fruit (Chinola). I really like the Chinola juice! David found an empanada stand, which we were excited about. His little piece of Argentine heaven for breakfast. We also found a restaurant like Cafe Rio! An American family from California moved here and opened a FreshMex place and we love it! We have also tried Gelato. We don't see the difference between gelato and ice cream. Maybe the Italians can convince us otherwise, but not the Dominicans.
We had our first DR doctor experience today. David has had an earache for a few days and we was dying a little bit this morning so we took him in. He prescribed three medications which they gave us and we walked out the door without paying anything. They told us that if they needed any money they would call us later. And out of all the people we've met here of every color and ethnicity...our doctor was Indian (actually from India) of all places. :) Random.
In other news...we think we may have killed the nest of cucarachas that have been living behind the cabinet under our sink. We sprayed it two days ago, sprayed it again yesterday and the owners son came today and drew some magical voodoo lines with chalk that he said kills them immediately. We'll see how that goes.
Overall, we are having so much fun! We are starting to greatly appreciate all of the below 30 days off of school that I had and the mornings of scraping the snow off our car. I think I prefer it. None of my shoes or rings fit me here because I swell up in the heat. I can wear flip flops or tennis shoes. No regular sandals. Awesome. We are loving the people and the slow pace of life. We really enjoy the food and the novelty of everything. We are excited for whatever lies ahead.
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