Espanol...

Changed our blog name to Arroz y Habichuelas (Rice and Beans), the main course here in the DR. Yesterday we completed our first Spanish presentation…20 minutes of Spanish in front of an audience…and, we DID IT!!! Yay! Learning the language has now become even more challenging with the dialect of Constanza; The put an S in the middle of words and then take the S out of the end of words…hilarious at some moments and frustrating at others. However, hopefully in a few weeks, we will be rattling of the language of the campo. We are starting to make some friends, which has been fantastic!!! Hooray, new friends. Played cards last night until the wee hours and visited with a few of the 23 volunteers that are here with us. We have so much in common…ESL teachers, Social Workers, and many folks whom have worked with at-risk youth, we are glad to be surrounded by such a talented group of folks. We keep looking at each other and exclaiming, Wow! They picked us? This is pretty incredible. We are always reminding ourselves that even a hard day here is a hard day, IN THE CARRIBIAN…this keeps us smiling.