It's my third full day in Dominica and I'm already quite in love with the island. I'm living with a fantastic family- I have a host mom and three host sisters who are wonderful. My host mom works at a bakery and previously worked at a catering company and is, as you would imagine, an amazing cook. I can not eat all the food she puts in front of me each day but I'm working quite hard to try!
The village is a farming town and has the most amazing tomatoes, dasheen, watermelons and mangoes. The house I'm staying in has a gorgeous view of the Caribbean sea from the road (I know, I know other trainees that are reading this- you can see the sea while eating breakfast or sleeping, etc...) and the home I will probably be moving into has a view of the Caribbean from the porch and is above a store!
Last night I met the people who run the organization I'll be working with. All three that I met are really fun and excited. I'll be helping to plan a reunion for the community this summer which sounds awesome. I'll tell you more about it as I find out!
My host sister took me to the Peace Corps office in Roseau for my first day of training today and then came to pick me up at the end of the day. With out a cell phone or any knowledge of the area it's kind of like being a small child all over again. At one point she pulled me out of the street (the drive on the left side here) to show me how to cross the street.
It is amazing how worthless most of the living skills I've acquired being on my own the last few years are. The village I'm in is quite small and the roads don't have streets or numbers so maps are rendered quite useless. I didn't know how to turn on the hot water this morning (there's a separate switch for that). I wore a raincoat when I left this morning which provided pretty useless cover in the warm, on again off again rain but luckily my host sister had foreseen this and packed an umbrella.
I miss you all though- quite dearly. Many times a day I look for my phone to send a text about something funny...
P.S. One of the people I'm working with totes knew about the Buffalo Bills and asked about T.O.'s show. The Peace Corps gods have truly blessed me.
Next time gumshoes!
"the home I will probably be moving into has a view of the Caribbean from the porch and is above a store!"
ReplyDeletePlease, please tell me the store is named O'Looney's.