Glimpse of life:
We wake up each morning without an alarm for several reasons:
1) Every person in the Dominican owns at least several chickens, some of whom happen to be roosters, some of whom like to crow from about 5 until 7 every morning.
2) By seven o´clock, its too hot to sleep.
3) When you live in a place as beautiful as this, you dont want to waste a minute of it. (im not sure Holly agrees with this one)
We have looked for over a week, in several cities, for a bookshelf. The problem is not that we cant find one we like... its that there is no such thing as a bookshelf here. We will have to build one. This does not speak well for the country´s educational system, I dont think.
Tomorrow morning we will go to the capital, Santiago, to drop off our group from Otter Creek. They had a great trip and did some great work, and today we helped them cap it off with an afternoon at the beach. It rained just enough to cool it off a little, but it was, overall, a beautiful day. Brian found miracle gas in Puerto Plata that gets us to the capital and back, so i guess we cant use gas as an excuse to keep Otter Creek in the Dominican. Holly and I will also purchase a futon that we hope many of you will have the chance to sleep on when you visit.
Wish us luck and pray that I remember to drop into low gear coming down the mountain in the GMC truck so that the brakes dont catch on fire. That almost happened last time. We dont have hills in Oklahoma.
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