hola mis amigos y familia!

Hi Everyone! So, things are going good. Last night all TWENTY of the people in my program went out which in hindsight was kind of a bad idea because, first of all, we stick out like sore thumbs especially with los rubios (the blondes) in our group. So, basically everywhere we went they would start playing american music, it was pretty funny.

Second of all, twenty people is a lot of people to organize and keep track of. So, there was a bit of drama about sticking together and all that. But not lasting, everyone was fine today so I am glad because I did not come here to get caught in the tangled web of he said she said.

Today we had una búsqueda de tesoro which is a scavenger hunt, around Santiago. It was actually really really fun. We split into five groups of four and we had a list of things to do. Like go to the medical center and ask how much being treated would cost, go here and buy this, go here and find out what the name of this is. It was so we could become better associated with the city as we had to travel por concho which are like taxis but cheaper and crazier in that they stuff four people in the back city and two people in the front seat! We also became more comfortable with the people. What I learned today is dominicans are literally the most helpful people EVER. One guy literally walked us to the post office. Other people tried to answer all the questions for us. This one guy read all of the directions to us even though obviously we had already read them, etc, etc. We had to actually tell one guy that we had to do it ourselves because I think if we had let him he would have walked us everywhere, it was ridiculous!

About to go out to una discoteca del merengue! Adios mis amigos!