I can't believe seven weeks and my summer have flown by so fast! It seems like yesterday we arrived piling way too many suitcases and way too many people in the car and arriving (somehow safely with their crazy driving!) to the house we stayed in! A week from today I will be boarding the plane back home even though it doesn't seem like it should be happening so soon! I might actually miss the hot weather that is somehow always full of happy attitudes, the mornings where I am supposed to be picked up at 10A.M. but do not get picked up until after 2, if at all, (every day here), and the always guessing if my meal will be delivered at 6P.M., 9P.M., or if at all! The rice and beans though? Eh, don't push it. They never grew on me while I was here, and thankfully, I have a nice enough boss to realize that. She finally has given me meat with vegetables every day and rice is kept only to a minimum! She is playing it well though. Lunch is usually around 12 here but the other day it was 1:30 and my food still had not arrived. Finally, after some phone calls my food arrived and to my surprise (even though it shouldn't of been) it was rice, beans, and chicken. I think she knew by then I would be so hungry that it would actually taste wonderful so she won that one! The sad part is I ate almost all that rice that day. Today was better spent eating ice cream, laying on the beach, swimming in the ocean, and enjoying my last Sunday here.
Tomorrow we are preparing for the camp that we are hosting Tuesday-Thursday that 86 teenage girls from the poorest places in Puerto Plata will be attending on self image, respect, and motivation! I'm sure there will be much to learn from this last week here!