Hola! It is Tuesday night... and i finally have one bar of internet access!! Hotel wireless likes to do this thing where it connects you to the wireless connection... but won't let you on the internet. Right now I am in another girls' room standing at a counter borrowing some guy names Jorge's unsecured wireless connection. Yep. That's how we do it here in La Romana, Dominican Republic.
The past couple of days have been VERY excited and busy! On Monday we moved to a different hotel in a different down - La Romana. It is more rural. We have also attended our first bank meetings with HOPE International & Esperanza. They have been very informative and have made impacts on all of us. Today we had the opportunity to split into groups and interview a few clients to write down their stories. My group was pretty comfortable asking questions to the clients we were assigned to, and we gathered some pretty amazing stories. After that we got a chance to hang out with children and members of the community. And we sampled some sugar cane. The community that we were in was called a "batey" which is where families who work in the sugar cane fields live.
We just got back from a Pentacostal church service that lasted for 3 hours. Most of us were pretty intrigued and confused about what was going on --- mostly because the man was shouting in Spanish... and also because we had never seen the power of the Holy Spirit work in that way. The singing was exciting and active.
Sorry that there are no photos on this update (they take too long to update)... and that the update it really short. It is almost midnight... and we have to be ready by 7am tomorrow. Hopefully I can find this exact spot tomorrow and update some more (maybe I will assign one of my teammates to share a thought and/or story).
Just know that we are all alive and well (despite our cankles ... yes my ankles are swollen as well).
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