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June 10 - 15 fun in the island sun
We finally went out on our own - no accompaniment from friends of friends, or students of the university tasked with entertaining us - and had a blast. Everyone has talked to me about living it up at the bars of Santo Domingo, and naturally we wound up at the most Miami-esque venue imaginable ( Read more... ) -
June 9 - Movers and Shakers, the Health System and a visit to San Juan
I turned on the television for the first time today and was a bit taken aback when shots of the Brooklyn Museum were the first images to pop onto the screen. I shouldn’t have been: it’s not easy to miss the connections between NY and the DR. Though, in a country of approximately 10 million people (a country boasting the biggest economy in the ( Read more... ) -
Backlog, June 3 - Lost en La Sirena
Today was the first time the Dominican Republic felt anything like Sudan - encouraging me further to re-enter the blogosphere - I was rather desperately walking in circles looking for vegetables, longing for leaves full of more than beta-carotene (mangos are everywhere here…) and something more nutrient-rich than rice and beans. The main difference ( Read more... ) -
backlog: back on the boat
My cheeks are a bit pink with sunburn - a visual manifestation of the only real expectation I brought with me this summer here in the Dominican Republic. Six days in and I’m finally feeling more accustomed to the tropical humidity, catcalls, and Dominican Spanish ( Read more... ) -
Greater Connections
Multiple times a day I’ll start this blog entry in my head. It’s startling to think that I’ve been doing so for a month ( Read more... ) -
Backlog, August 15: The Great Escape
On my last night in Africa I feel that I should feel differently. More inspired, transcended somehow. Hungrier, more determined, or learned would be appropriate ( Read more... ) -
I know why the caged lion sings
It’s startling to me that it takes a shell-shocking BBC-World News special on China’s “arming of the killers,” for me to see an element of sophistication in the wars of both the South of Sudan and that in the west, given the experienced daily impacts, rooted in fairly rudimentary measures of violence. In both cases, the humanitarian disaster hangs ( Read more... ) -
and the saga continues...
So I went to court, twice and someone suspected that I had been in trouble in Ethiopia before. Evidently it’s not so common to get a white lady causing such trouble. No resolve. Back to court on Friday for my ‘hearing’ or trial if you will… and if you wont then…well, I’m out of answers. Nothing here makes much sense. Except for good food and ( Read more... )
