i´ve reached a somewhat quiet point here in the DR. the most traveling I´ve done has been to Boca Chica about half an hour away. Milagros has friends who we visit there. I´ve spent a lot of time watching tv in spanish and working on translating stuff. In Boca Chica I don´t go out and do stuff so much.

In good news....I now have a working shower (cold, but working). And we have an extra phone line installed (no dsl yet, but hopefully soon...i know i´ve been saying that for a couple of weeks). Also, in exciting news my friend Hector told me the other day that if I had darker skin I´d be a dominican (I¨m pretty sure thats what he said....but I could have misunderstood bc-of my spanish). I took that as a compliment....

i ate dinner with a missionary family from cincinnnati last night. they´re doing aids work here. it was really nice to have someone from home to talk to about what i´m seeing here.

i´ve come to a point where i miss home and all of you to some extent. but at the same time i can see how it will be difficult to leave here. i feel sort of stuck in the middle. i know what it´s like to live like people live here.....i´ve got friends here. then i know what´s it´s like to have the conveniences at home. sort of a weird middle place. i´m worried that i´ll just forget everything i´ve seen and experienced here....forget my friends.