Hellooo from sunny Santo Domingo!!
Just kidding, it’s not sunny, it’s the middle of the
night. But I am here at last!
I took I picture of me too, for Mom. Look Mom! Here I am! Look at me alive and everything!
The trip here was just about as good as it could’ve been…
On the first plane ride I sat next
to a Chilean lawyer who had just completed the Iron Man triathlon in The
Woodlands (the swimming part of which took place on the same lake Cary and I
kayaked on yesterday!), and he and his wife told me about good business schools
in Chile/Argentina for when I study abroad there next year!
On the second plane ride I sat next
to a woman who not only was the first Dominican woman to complete the Iron Man,
but is the executive director for a non-profit children’s organization in Santo
Domingo… which is exactly the sort of organization I will be working for
starting Wednesday! We talked for
the whole trip about the triathlon and her organization, Fundación Futuro
Posible, and I hadn’t even opened my book yet when they announced we were
landing.
We eventually made it through
customs and—after a small amount of searching, worrying,
cell-phone-borrowing-from-random-taxi-driver, and waiting—found Danny, the
country coordinator who picked us up, packed us into vans, took us out for
pizza, then dropped us off at our host homes!
So here I am,
in my little bedroom in my new home for the next month! More tomorrow—I’m about to crash! Love you all!
LOVE,
Abby
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