Day 57

It occurred to me today, the next level of third world-ness – you can’t count on anything here. This thought happened while I was sitting at the Verizon store, discovering that their systems were down because of all the rain. I ended up going to Fernes’ store where an IT guy from Santo Domingo had been spending the past 3 days re-wiring his systems, and now the wireless network worked there. But, to expand upon my thought, my experience has been that you can’t count on anything – people, businesses, food, weather – to be the same two times in a row here. It is part of the timeless beauty, sure, but it is also wearing and stressful. I am left with the choice of just letting go – letting things happen when they will – or to just keep on trying, and waiting for every item and situation to open itself. This has been good for me, because it has helped me realize to take advantage of each situation, as I won’t know when it will re-occur. But it has been wearing just the same.


we used our new machete to open our first coconut. Amy took the milk and the white fatty lining and blended them to make coconut milk. After cutting the coconut, Benjamin asked me if we could go cut down a tree.