Our site

We're back in the capitol after a week at our new site. Here are a few photos. Our host family is incredibly friendly and the vistas are stunning. Unfortunately because we are so far up in the mountains it will be rather difficult to acquire our regular supply of pineapple and mango. There are an endless supply of bananas however, and when in season, there are so many passion fruit and avocado that they (at least the avocados) become pig food as the locals can't eat them all. This week we had plenty of coffee (hand-roasted and ground)and hot chocolate (from chunks of dark chocolate) from local cacao plants. Near our house lives a man who makes fresh whole cane sugar and he also sells hand-ground corn flour. All of this loveliness will make the lack of a wide variety of fruit a little easier to bear.

This coming week we finally swear in as volunteers and then we'll happily escape the oppressive heat of Santo Domingo and journey four hours back to the highlands.