Just a little belated Happy Birthday wish to Tracy because I didn't post it yesterday! Sorry but hope you had a great birthday! Also, a little shout out to Laura and Brian who are running the Bourbon Chase tonight and tomorrow, hope you are having fun!
So today was just a work day around the orphanage. I drove the teachers into the English Institute and then went to the bank and post office with Coco for a little bit. After I got back I worked some on the health slideshow presentation that I am going to help put together for the groups as a basic information/background about the DR health care system and what our goals are for education and clinic outreach. This took a while because there are a lot of statistics that I had to read through, etc.
For lunch we had Italian day. Coco made veggie lasagna, pesto pasta and bruschetta. It was all very good! After lunch, I read some of my book, Better. For those of you reading this in healthcare, I highly suggest it and that is big coming from me who doesn't enjoy reading! :)
I then took advantage of the siesta because I was tired for some reason today!
After siesta, I worked again for several hours on the slideshow information, basically until time to leave for dinner. I did get to go over and say high to the kids for about 10 minutes before dinner. Pastor was passing out sugar cane candy and gave me a piece. It was very sweet and tasty. I was going to save it for after dinner because we were leaving so soon but one of the twins, Arianni kept screaming at me, Eat it, Eat it, Eat it, so I gave in to her cute irresistible smile.
I once again drove the troops to the pizza place for dinner. Coco wanted me to experience driving in the dark. It is a little different because there were people walking down the streets, etc. with no street lights and some motos don't have lights so it made it interesting. Also, somewhere on one of the streets I had shifted to 3rd instead of 1st and was trying to go through the dips and take off in 3rd and stalled twice. I couldn't figure out why when I was laying my foot on the gas it still was chugging along and trying to stall. Well after not being able to start the car twice in a row, Coco suggested that maybe I wasn't in 1st and I wasn't! Oops! It got a lot easier after that! :)
We had dinner at the pizza place and about 5-10 minutes into dinner the power went out and it was pitch black. All we had were our cell phones to add light to the table. The power would come on and turn off because apparently their generator wasn't working, until about the 3rd time it went out for good. Luckily the oven was a big fire pizza oven so they were able to keep cooking. They brought out several candles for us to eat by candlelight and it was actually very nice. They don't have candle holders here, instead they brought out what looked like french onion soup bowls and to get the candle to stand upright you had to drip some wax into the bottom of the bowl and then stick the candle into the wax and let it dry. Very creative!
So after dinner, I got drive home again! It is more fun sitting in the back and just chatting it up instead of driving because there is so much to pay attention to while driving. For example, a child was running within arm's length distance from my door on the way home and scared me when I turned my head to look out my window. He was so close and it was dark so I could have easily hit him especially since you are constantly driving all over the road to avoid dips and holes.
Tomorrow we are headed to the mangroves where we will take a boat ride out to where the mangrove trees grow and we can swim and hang out on the "beach" area. I'm looking forward to this to get some rest and relaxation.
Today I found out that next week I'll be taking a group of 4 students to one of the local schools where they will be teaching Nutrition all week. It should be a nice change in the schedule although I still have a lot of work to do here!
Have a great weekend! I'm still working on uploading my pictures but Kodak changed their website and it isn't working correctly. I may have to change which website I use! I'll post a new link once I get some new ones up!
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