Week 5 (Monte Plata –> Las Terrenas)

For the past few weeks, my project has been on hold. Jillian, Derek and I took on the task of cleaning out and reorganizing the storeroom, which is very large and was filled with boxes of Stuff. There was a method to the madness, but there were many boxes of donated personal hygiene items, supplies, …

Week 4 (Monte Plata–>Santo Domingo)

Monday I spent most of the day observing the nursing area with Jillian. During a time when there were no patients, I had a really uncomfortable talk with one of the nurses, Altagracia, about religion and creationism/evolution. She went through disbelief (Her Spanish isn’t perfect, maybe she didn’t understand the question) then shock (How could …