 | 3 weeks down, 1 to go
2008-04-20, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | Hi Everyone!
Three weeks have passed and I don't really know where the time went. We were just talking about how in a week from now we will back in the classroom. This will definitely be a crazy ... |
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| Third week slump
2008-04-16, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | Hi everyone!
We are into the middle of the third week and everyone is fighting sickness/tiredness. Luckily mine is only the fatigue part and not the sickness. However, clinic has been extremely r... |
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| End of week 2
2008-04-14, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | Hi Everyone,
I know it has been a while since I've written, but it just means we have been really busy lately. Last week finished in a rush since we were trying to make up for the Wednesday we mis... |
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 | A day off!
2008-04-09, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | Hola Todos!
Time for a mid week update. I actually have some time to write today because work was canceled for all of us today. As I mentioned in earlier writings, it is close to election time he... |
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| We Survived
2008-04-06, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | We made it back from the campo today. It was actually way nicer than we had all anticipated. Most of the houses even had indoor toilets that flushed. They couldn't flush toilet paper so you just ha... |
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| Off to the mountains!
2008-04-04, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | Today marks the end of our first week! I can't believe how time flies! Anyways, this entry has to be quick because we are leaving in about 30 minutes to drive three hours into the mountains to our c... |
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 | The Batay
2008-04-03, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | After finishing in the clinic yesterday we headed out to the batay. This is a small, poor Hatian community that was originally meant to be temporary housing for people that came to work during the su... |
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| First day in the clinic
2008-04-01, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | Well, there was no entry yesterday due to the fact that we had a mishap with the internet. Yesterday was pretty much an orientation day. We went out in the morning to see all of the clinical sites. M... |
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| Day 1-Exploring the City
2008-03-31, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: heallen601 | | We survived the first day! : ) All 15 girls went to sleep in our military style bunks with individual mosquito nets without top sheets or blankets to wake up at 4 am freezing. Needless to say, I was... |
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 | The last guagua ride
2007-04-20, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: springtime | | Hola everyone. Today is my last day. We are leaving for the beach in an hour or so. Yesterday wasn't as crazy as I thought it would be with my clinical site in the morning, wheelchair clinic and charl... |
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 | Beautiful Day to you!
2007-04-20, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello Everybody,
After dancing the night away last night, I awoke this morning to run down and put some laundry in the machine, get packing and pack some more. My mom is the best packer in the world... |
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| Putting that tetanus shot to work!
2007-04-19, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello to everybody! I have a quick second to update here, so I wanted to say hello to you all. Thank you for the comments. Emily- I hope both boys are sitting in your lap right now as you read this... |
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 | Our last official work day!
2007-04-19, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | Well, we made it. Today is our last official work day. (Tomorrow we'll bring soda and cookies for everyone we work with as a way to say thank you.) In one way, the time has gone very fast and yet I fe... |
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| Dance party
2007-04-18, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: springtime | | Only 2 days left, really only 1 day of work left for me. Tomorrow is a big day though, we go to our site tomorrow morning and see 4 kids (which means anywhere from 2-8 kids) then tomorrow afternoon fr... |
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| Oh! My aching muscles!
2007-04-18, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Well, as you can tell by my title, my body is extremely sore today. I have some patellofemoral syndrome in both knees, cuts, scrapes, and bruises all over my body, but it feels great! It feels like ... |
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| The longest guagua ride ever
2007-04-17, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: springtime | | So today started off with the longest guagua ride ever. I was in the front seat, which is usually the comfy seat, but there were a couple of large men in the front, a smaller man, and myself in the fr... |
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| Mountain Climbing
2007-04-17, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello Everybody!
Thank you all for your comments and words of encouragement to make it through! This post will probably be short because my arms cannot hold up for much longer as this has been a ver... |
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| A sad Monday
2007-04-16, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | Today while eating lunch in town, we saw on the television about the terrible news of the shooting at Virginia Tech (the sound was off and the captions were in Spanish but we got the grim news nonethe... |
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| 4.16.07
2007-04-16, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: springtime | | Hello again. I can't believe I only have one week left, only 4 more work days and then 5 days at the beach:)
Today we saw 8 kids at ICC, we were back at the office so we had a gazebo and roosters ... |
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| ICC and Angeles de Conani
2007-04-16, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello Everybody! I would like to first congratulate you all for taking me over 1,000 visitors! Yay! I would also like to say that I am starting to miss the comments that I had been receiving! I lo... |
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| Broken Hearts and Broken Toes
2007-04-15, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello Everybody!
I'm back from an exhausting weekend in Santo Domingo! It was quite interesting, so I will try to sum up the weekend:
Friday morning at ICC, we got there and they said they had 6 ... |
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| un pequeno cochroach
2007-04-13, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: springtime | | Hey everyone. I thought I'd write a quick journal before I left for the weekend. We are going to Santo Domingo. I get to see Christopher Columbus's house, that will be pretty neat.
This week has ... |
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| TGIF!
2007-04-13, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | Today after work we are heading down to Santo Domingo, the capital of Dominican Republic.
Yesterday after breakfast we headed to work guagua style. I'm getting very used to be crammed into a miniv... |
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| Off to Santo Domingo!
2007-04-12, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello Everybody,
I forgot to mention earlier we are going to Santo Domingo tomorrow afternoon, so I will be out of touch until Sunday evening. I will for sure update then, so don't you worry! Thank... |
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| Worst. Guagua Ride. Ever.
2007-04-12, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello Everybody!
Thank you for the notes from my guestbook! It's so great to hear from so many of you!
So today, I had the worst guagua ride ever. I know I talk a lot about the guagua rides, but... |
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| Thursday!
2007-04-12, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | Hi y'all,
Yesterday was a typical day at ILAC. We got up and ate breakfast. The breakfasts here are plentiful but tends to be the same most days. We have eggs, either hardboiled or scrambled, rolls ... |
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| Happy Wednesday!
2007-04-11, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello Everybody! It's so great to hear from everyone! I love reading the comments- it's about one of my favorite parts of the day.
First of all, you should know I am in desperate need of a shower ... |
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| Chicken anyone?
2007-04-10, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: springtime | | Hola everyone. It has been blazing hot here the past couple of days and super humid, with torrential rain in the afternoon and evenings, I kind of wanted to check the weather channel just to make sure... |
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| Mobilizations and Mirabel
2007-04-10, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | Hello Everybody!
Thank you for all the comments! I love hearing from each and every one of you on the guestbook! Thank you so much!
Today was another day full of interesting guagua stories. We ... |
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| Eating in a wild west restaurant?
2007-04-09, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | Seriously, we ate at a "wild west" restaurant complete with stagecoach and john wayne memorabilia. The waiters even wore cowboy garb and cowboy hats. It was a hoot! I was brave and tried mashed plaint... |
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| Another Monday....
2007-04-09, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | Today we just finished up our morning clinic work and spent part of the afternoon at "Neuva Esperanza" (New Hope), a orphanage/group home for children. Only three children were there to play with and ... |
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| Quite the walk we had....
2007-04-08, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | OK, so we (8 of us) decided to go on a hike yesterday during Easter Sunday. A nice little stroll, right? Well, two hours later, it was hot, hot, HOT and very muggy and we were LOST in a foreign city. ... |
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| Chickens and Street Luge
2007-04-09, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | First of all, Happy Birthday Lindsey! I love you!
My group had a great day at our clinical site. We had to go to the main office this morning and then one of the promatoras met us to take us to a... |
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| Happy Easter
2007-04-08, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: amyschafer | | and Feliz Pascua as well!
How are you all doing? It was great to be able to talk to you today mom, dad, and Allison. Hovlands- did you get my message? I miss you all!
Today was a great day ... |
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 | Cigar factory
2007-04-03, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | After work today, we headed to the cigar factory and cultural museum. I didn't know making and smoking cigars was such a science. I went in with my professor, Marcia, and some others to purchase a box... |
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| Pizza Hut?
2007-04-02, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | Tonight, after a long day of work, me and some friends took a gua-gua all by ourselves to downtown Santiago for a night of shopping and eating. We found a jewelry store with some really cute stuff and... |
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| Heading to the campo
2007-03-28, Santiago, Dominican Republic. By: bameaney | | This weekend, our group is going an hour and a half away to a Campo to stay with families and educate "camponeros" or people who are learning basic medical treatment for their campo, on physical thera... |
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