That right, today is my (Mike's) birthday. We celebrated by going to Santo Domingo's area IV to interview local administrators and nurses. The office was quite a bustle when we arrived -- this weekend is the big Dengue Campaign throughout the country. Earlier in the year, the DR has had a small Dengue outbreak, so they are fighting back SESPAS style by flyering the country and distributing some sort of gravely substance that people are supposed to put in their water tanks to prevent mosquitos from multiplying. To prepare for the campaign, dozens of volunteers were in the office packing posters and filling baggies. A lot of these people had worked during the Vaccination Week in the Americas campaign in August. Azucena and I had a chance to interview several of them about their experiences and how needle-free injectors could be used in campaigns.
In the evening though, the celebration began. We joined our Dominican Friends at a local eatery, which, of course, also was a Meringue bar. The place was kind of like Max's Opera Cafe, except that instead of all the waiters singing, they danced Meringue and did neat stunts like spinning around on the top of a bottle (hey Rich, do you have a picture of this). I believe this place was chosen though by our Dominican friends because of their excessively embarrassing birthday ode, which involved the entire wait staff crowding around me singing at the top of their lungs while banging on drums with the AV system on full blast for support.
We topped off the night by going to Nowhere...as in the club. It was a sweet place in the Zona Colonial -- they had fully club-ized a 17th century building. I got my dance on and we called it a night.
caption: A sticker being passed out for the Dengue campaign. I believe the text translates as: "Chlorinating your water tanks is hot!"
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