Long time no type

Hello my faithful readers (to be read as: family and friends),

My computer is still out of service, so I am typing a little summary of the past few days and will join the pictures to the post later. On Saturday we took a little excursion with the school. We went to los altos de chavon (google it for more information). It is a beautiful little recreation of a Spanish colonial city perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking a river that leads into the ocean. I have lots of pictures from there.

These past few days at work I've been busy working on the 4th grade curriculum for the parents and the year plan for my Language Arts, Math, and Social Studies. It's been fun organizing everything and getting an idea of where I'm going to be taking these kids this year. I came here expecting to only be teaching English, so I didn't bring any resources for myself as a teacher or for the kids in the other subjects. You have no idea how much I wish I could drive over to borders and pick up a few books. No idea at all! But beyond that, things are going better work wise.

I've got a good group of American girls that I hang out with pretty regularly and then there are the guys that we've added to our little group. One of the girls's husband has come up from El Salvador to stay here permanently with her. He has already helped me out once with guarding my house while I was at work (and people were doing maitenence) and I am sure there will be many more times. We have two close friends who are from the Dominican. They're 27 and were both planning on becoming ministers, but now they're teachers and they're fantastic. (one of them owns a car and the other will be taking classes in the capitol; they're going to come in handy!) And then there is 'de Clet or how every one would spell that. Which, by the way, is his last name. He is one of the French teachers here (from Haiti). He's pretty hilarious. I also have Anthony, who has appointed himself my guardian here. He is a civics and ethics teacher here. He's from St. Kit's originally but has traveled and lived all over. Let me tell you, the gawks from dominican men sure do diminish when we're with the guys. I'm happy for that!

Eat some pizza for me and read a good children's book about early western democracies for me :). That's what I'd do if I were you!