Fotos, por favor?

Una de mis familias...les llamo "abuelas" ahora...

El Juramento, Part I: Swearing In and Speaking

El Juramento, Part Deux: (Momma, I made it...)

Mis jovenes, Parte I

Mis jovenes, Parte II

Mi comunidad

God, this is the Peace Corps!

For our juramento, one of the (now) former Peace Corps volunteers was asked to give advice for the new volunteers. His resonse: "Each day, take time out to look up at the stars and say to yourself: This is the Peace Corps; God, I love the Peace Corps."

Here are some of those moments for me during the past week:

1. Watching one of my jovenes practice pelota, or baseball, at sunset. Yup, he's definitely going to sign with one of the teams....

Honorable mention: Playing soccer at dusk in the commmunty. Watch out Brazil, the DR is coming...

2. Playing UNO with the family while enjoying a Friday afternoon breeze. When the family starts discutiendo over who says "uno" first or who "skipped" who, you know it's officially been adopted as a Dominican game and that they're addicted....

3. Tostones for breakfast. Enough said.

4. Hearing my little brother call my name every morning: "Lu-eee...Lu-eee....Lu-eee"

5. Waking up at 3AM to "amanecer" for el Dia Internacional Contra el SIDA, or International AIDS DAY. I didn't know exactly what we would be doing, but came to find out that it involved a bonfire, ginger juice (???), galletitas, and a prayer at 6AM.

6. Riding in the back of a pickup truck with 15 other jovenes to a town called Las Pajas. You might want to look up that name...

7. Giving my host mom and dad a "pela" as my host brother and I beat them in domino two games in a row....

Hasta el proximo, si Dios quiere...