Tall brooms

Things are sssllllooooowwwwwwwww.

We have narrowed down options to our top-3 sites! Drumroll..........Restauracion, Tres Ceibas, Paradero! I know that probably means nothing to you guys, but there it is. I feel like we can't really go wrong with any of these sites, so what we have to do now is research the volunteer program costs. I will be traveling back to these 3 sites to collect data on lodging, transportation, food costs. For the most part, volunteers will have to stay with host families, so I have to go back to the villages and check out a few families recommended by the leadership in the community as well as current PC volunteers. Once we get all the costs figured out, we can analyze which project makes the most sense cost-wise since we already like the work aspect in each one. Rosalia and I will be back on the road!

I have until November 12 do to all of this. My CEO is coming on the 12th, to check out final suggestions. This means I have a month to visit 3 sites....

I am trying to learn a whole bunch of stuff on random health topics. I have a whole dropbox full of manuals and lessons that I need to look over in order to familiarize myself with the material that I will be teaching. It is hard to fill the day with that, so I am really just taking it easy for the next 30 days. I am learning a bunch of new stuff......and am really really bored.

I went to some local waterfalls with my buddy Jake (not the same waterfalls for those of you who have been here). It was really cool, we made our own trail of sorts which ended up being a tad illegal what with all the trampsing through protected land and what not. It was a really cool experience. We climbed up, down and around these sheer rock faces bare-foot, and jumped off random cliffs into deep ice-cold spring water. Of course, I caught a touch of poison ivy/oak whatever, which has since gone away, but was pretty uncomfortable all over my arms. Pretty neat falls, though:

This is in front of the falls.

Behind the falls, swimming through mystery caverns and climbing up rocks.

Also! how could I forget this? I recently became the proud owner of the worlds longest/skinniest broom. This old guy was selling them door to door, and it is clearly worth 2 cents, but I paid top dollar. Check it out:

This picture doesn't even really do it justice. On your right is a conventional broom.
It is so long and skinny, and the broom top is a haphazardly strewn together collection of pine straw. I tried to sweep my room and it all started shedding off. It is purely a show broom from this point on......

See how bored I am? Adios!