Day 12 in the D.R. looked a bit different today. Every morning, after breakfast, we have to bargain the taxi fare to our schedule location of the day. After getting fed up with prices, we decided to spice up our routine a bit today, by teaching our hotel driver that we didn’t feel like getting ripped off this morning. Instead of using his services, we called a local company cab to take us. Tito, our regular taxi driver was not very thrilled about our scheme. He just nodded and looked away. I’m sorry Tito, we just had to do it; maybe you will give us a better price the next time.
We headed to our central meeting location and met with our local translator. Then, continued on to our first interview, learned some new things and witnessed the preparation for a Dengue campaign going on. Putting on a campaign takes a lot of community work. Since this campaign didn’t involve any vaccines, this one had to be coordinated correctly to teach people to clean their water containers to keep any mosquitos from growing in stagnant water and then developing Dengue from mosquito bites. On our way to our next meeting of the day, we decided to have chicken as the main ingredient for our meal. The new concept at the fast food chain was having three drink choices for the combos, either, soda, fruit juice or Presidente (D.R.’s national beer)…and I thought the U.S. was innovated.
An international NGO was schedule for the afternoon. Afterwards, we felt like being tourists, so we decided to head over to a restaurant close to El Conde (Turists’ central). At the restaurant, Mike enjoyed some pechugas al ajillo (chicken breasts with garlic), Sapun had nice vegetarian meal (finally!) and Rich ordered his much anticipated Chivo Guisado ‘Goat Dish’. This was a delightful restaurant and a nice end to a very much assorted day.
-Azucena
Caption: Mike and Sapun posing with the famous Juan Pablo Duarte
We headed to our central meeting location and met with our local translator. Then, continued on to our first interview, learned some new things and witnessed the preparation for a Dengue campaign going on. Putting on a campaign takes a lot of community work. Since this campaign didn’t involve any vaccines, this one had to be coordinated correctly to teach people to clean their water containers to keep any mosquitos from growing in stagnant water and then developing Dengue from mosquito bites. On our way to our next meeting of the day, we decided to have chicken as the main ingredient for our meal. The new concept at the fast food chain was having three drink choices for the combos, either, soda, fruit juice or Presidente (D.R.’s national beer)…and I thought the U.S. was innovated.
An international NGO was schedule for the afternoon. Afterwards, we felt like being tourists, so we decided to head over to a restaurant close to El Conde (Turists’ central). At the restaurant, Mike enjoyed some pechugas al ajillo (chicken breasts with garlic), Sapun had nice vegetarian meal (finally!) and Rich ordered his much anticipated Chivo Guisado ‘Goat Dish’. This was a delightful restaurant and a nice end to a very much assorted day.
-Azucena
Caption: Mike and Sapun posing with the famous Juan Pablo Duarte
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