My two student groups finished our mural this week! I tried to stay out of it as much as possible, mainly guiding the process as best I could-- turned out pretty cute! It's located on the end of the main school building below a walkway to the basketball court (and thus above the court)-- which meant I had a few tennis and basketballs contending with the paint... BUT all in all, not too much spilt paint to cry over:)
Monday (working backwards in the week) was a national holiday, although I'm not exactly sure what for, but everyone had at least the day off and some students (for other schools) had the whole week off. I spent the dia de fiesta at the beach and then at "Fun City" (pronounced more like foon city...), basically getting bruised up on the four go-cart racetracks. My favorite might have been the bumper cars (the Spanish term translates to "crashing cars") where the seat belt was literally a loose loop of nylon around your waist (really safe...)
There was a sweet jazz concert this past weekend in Cabarete (a nearby beach/resort town)-- by sweet I mean, I wish I had my camera for the awesome moves of the crowd (by awesome, read: awkward white people dancing) and for the musicians (the flutist--yes, there was a flutist-- hummed into his flute as a crowd raiser--nice!), and then for the awesome moves of dancers at the discotecs afterwards (by awesome, read: people can move like that?!? Wow, to be a Dominican...!) as well as for their outfits (think too small hot pink spandex, top, earrings, shoes, bracelets)!! I even got to try out my new meringue moves a bit once the bump 'n grind changed paces...
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