Wow at the beginning of my trip the homesickness hit me pretty hard and I would always count the number of days until I would get to go home. Now when I count the days I cant believe how fast so many of them have flown by. As of today I only have 67 days left. Yes it seems like a lot of time but times seems to be speed up here. Now instead of wanting the days to pass by quickly I want them to slow down. I can’t imagine going home and not drinking juice that was freshly, hand squeezed the day before, not eating fried plantain chips, not eating rice everyday, not going on the amazing adventures to beaches, waterfalls and mountains, and not being in 90 degree weather everyday. I am looking forward to going home and seeing all my family and friends again but when I think about what ill be leaving behind it makes me want to stay. My family can just come to the Dominican Repubic for christmas instead of me coming home.
Last weekend was pretty amazing. Saturday I left for the Presidente festival at 2 pm. Me and a bunch of the other CIEE kids took a tour bus down to Santo Domingo where the festival would be. We got there around 6, the time it was starting. I have never been somewhere where they check your ticket so many times, at this place it must have been at least 5. It was worth it though we got in there, grabbed some fro yo and enjoyed the music. Mostly the entire night it was just songs in spanish, which I loved even though I didn't understand much. There were two I knew of, Daddy Yankee and Prince Royce. Then at about 11:30 Bruno Mars came on stage. I’m not the biggest fan of Bruno Mars but it was really awesome to see him in person and our tickets to this with the bus included were only about $67. Crazy, I know! The bus left about 2:30am and I was finally in bed ready to pass out at about 5 in the morning.
Spanish class has been going well. I may not be very good at spanish but I really hope i’m getting better. Iv’e been here for a little over a month but I can’t tell how my spanish is coming along. Starting last week in spanish class we started getting essays assigned to us. Not my favourite but they are helping my spanish writing and my knowledge of the history here.
Yesterday, Friday the CIEE kids that chose to took a trip to 27 charcos. Also known as 27 waterfalls. It was so amazing to be able to be apart of that trip. We took a good hike up to where we would find the waterfalls on a path of never ending stairs. By the time we were about to slide down the first water fall I was so ready to be fully emerged in the refreshing water. I was terrified at the first waterfall. I slid down and plunged into the water. I had this thrill and was all jittery from what I had just donw. We slid down or jumped off of 8 waterfalls. It was so amazing, I only got water up my nose about three times, no big deal it was definitely worth it. The second to last one was the biggest one and we got to slide down once then climb back up to jump off. It was such rush, I can’t even explain how incredible it was. We hiked back and had a great Dominican lunch and got on the bus to head back.
Us Gap year students then had a double session of culture class with Lynn our director. I did bring a set of dry clothes to wear but I did not remember that I would need some dry shoes as well. Sopping wet sneakers were what got me threw our entire afternoon of class. For part of our class we ventured to a museum of a lot of the history and it was great. We were assigned some homework on culture and have to watch a Ted video which made me think of Mr. Grant and my AP environmental science class because we would watch Ted talks so often in his class, which I loved!
Compared to last weekend this one base been very relaxing. No more 5am bed times. It feels like I’ll be home tomorrow they way time flies here. There are so many adventures ahead of me and I’m excited to come home to share more about them.
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