The long awaited day has finally come. We received our site placements today. We are heading to the southern foothills of the Cordillera Central which is the biggest mountain range in the D.R. Our site is relatively near to San Jose de Ocoa. It doesn't look that far from the capital on a map, but apparently the mountain roads are pretty bad so it's actually approximately a 4 hour trip to Santo Domingo. We have been requested to potentially work on various projects such as reforestation, building latrines, making organic compost, and constructing more efficient wood stoves. We also finally received cell phones today as well so coordination will be quite a bit easier.
Tomorrow we meet our project partners, throw our stuffed packs on our backs and head off to our site where we'll be for the next 2 years. Needless to say we're quite excited. We'll spend one week there after which we return to the capital for a few days of final Peace Corps training jabberwocky. Then we swear in and we're off to live life as actual Peace Corps Volunteers!
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