Well friends, I don't know if I will be able to make myself leave... :)

This week was fantastic! I've been soakin up the caribbean sun, empowering some amazing dominican and US youth, eating mangoes and tamarindos, making friends, driving through beautiful countryside, dancing, and learning tons every day! This is really one of those key moments in my life and it will be so hard to leave it!

A highlight from this week would be the other day when I was sitting with one of my vols chatting on a terrace, overlooking the lush mountainside, when Nicole, an adorable little girl with braided hair and two front teeth missing, came up to me and said,

"Raquel, el es su hijo?" (Rachel is he your son?)
"No, pero el otro si." (No but the other boy is.--he's Chinese-American)

For the remainder of the day, she refered to Wayne as my son. So I tried to explain:

"Nicole, fue una broma. No es mi hijo." (Nicole, it was a joke. He's not my son.)
"Y porque dijo que es su hijo?" (then why did you say he was your son?)

So now, everyone thinks Wayne is my son...sarcasm does not work here, but I'm okay with Wayne being my son, he's pretty much wonderful.

A small accomplishment from this week would be a successful invention of spaghetti eggplant marinara. (Denise and make the dream team in the kitchen)

Hope you all are well and talk soon!
Rachel