This sign is what we made to remind ourselves...Current Playlist: “Goodbye”
Current Kitchen: We bought frozen strawberries today!
New Spanish Words: ampolla (blister), funcir el ceno (to furrow your brow), almohada (pillow), arena (sand)
There was one incident yesterday we somehow forgot to mention. Yesterday we attempted to checkout some childhood favorites like Madeline, Curious George, and the random Where Are You Baby Bear from the Dream Center Library. We were unsuccessful. Deeply saddened by this experience we began the journey home. After nearly being hit by a motoconcho, there was a gun shot and boom…Cow down! Watching this unfold will completely make you side with the Chick-fil-A cows and eat more chicken. I can fully tell you that there is nothing “up with us and burgerz” now.
Today we had a first. We braved the shower without our flip flops. It was quite liberating. Spanish nights have been unsuccessful; however, we have done at least 2 lessons in Rosetta Stone each night. Nicco joined SaraBeth in her nightly lesson. He was impressed by her skills!
Camp was great. We had 2 workshops (completely in Spanish). Each of us got to work with our local Dominican volunteer. I am working with Wilner. He is so great. He has only had 2 months of English. Deciding on curriculum was a little difficult with the language barrier, but we understood each other much better by the time we left this afternoon. He speaks Creole too. I learned to say what is your name… “Coma ou wele?” For those of you who don’t know, the Dominican Republic shares an island with Haiti. There is a very strong racial discrimination here between Dominicans and Haitians. We’ll go much more in depth on that on another day. We also decorated our Cuarto de Musica!! (Music Room) Maddy has some great construction skills!
While SB sat through “maestra” training, B learned some awesome “Break” games and how to read Spanish books to our campers! Hannah and I are so excited to meet our “detectives” tomorrow. We decorated our homeroom with the alphabet which we made from construction paper! ps… and just in case you forgot… the Spanish alphabet has 30 letters.
If you were concerned that we are not getting our daily exercise… have no fear! We get up and run/walk the beach early in the morning. But guys don’t get the wrong idea.. it’s not like a Baywatch scene. Although, Fe Fe decided to have a brief conversation with SB about “play boy.” Utterly confused, SB chose to respond by saying she has season 5 of the “Girls Next Door” on her computer. Fe Fe’s eyes grew three times and Nico joined the conversation. We think the guys then inferred that Fe Fe was a “play boy.”
While showing Nicco pictures of our Thanksgiving feast and trying to explain that we eat turkey and not chicken, she kept saying we had pelotas (Spanish for balls). In this situation Pavo is the correct term.
This one is completely random...But after a stimulating Sham-WOW conversation, I got a marriage proposal from Gillian last night. However, if anyone has the answer to this, please enlighten us. It was a topic of debate in our nightly bonding convo. In the advertisement the Sham wow is said to be super absorbent. If you were to throw numerous sham wows in the washing machine, wouldn’t they absorb all the water?
Finally…Note to self…If you’re ever doing laundry in the DR, Suavitel, although it looks like detergent, is actually a fabric sofenter. Your clothes will be soft, but not necessarily clean afterwards. Jabon (soap) is the word to look for on the bottle.
Xoxo – Dominican Girls (Taylor….that ones for you)
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