Hey Guys!

Just posting about my life- I think I'll have less "diary" blogs in the future, and more writing ones. Reasons below.

Few things going on- Cross Country started, just ran my first race today. I broke up with Andrea (huge sad face :( ) but I'm trying my hardest to get her back....so, while that sucks awfully, things are going to work out. Trust me.

School started one and a half weeks ago. I'm taking Online Algebra II, English 205 (2nd course honors level), Civics and Economics Honors, and CREATIVE WRITING!!

Which, of course, is my favorite class. When we get our laptops this week, I can start posting everything I write to by blog without difficulty. Until then, I may be going dark, but not for too long.

I realize that I never finished posting about the Dominican, so here's my extremely short speed-run on all of it (after Friday):

Saturday- went to a small village for the day, and brought tons of toys to the kids and just played with them all day. They have these little fruits, which are green and you crack them open with your teeth, they taste between a grape and an orange- very good! The tree in the center of the school courtyard ( we were at their school for the duration)was filled with them. And its nice seeing little kids smile :) even if you can't understand them well.

Sunday- massive church day. I can't remember the entire day, as it was going on 3 weeks ago, but I do remember going to some Spanish church for 3 hours (yeah, three), where I couldn't understand a thing because it was in a different language. And...i don't do well with church anyways.

Monday- Went to the village we went to on Saturday again, and helped re-paint the entire school. It was nice seeing the kids again :)

Tuesday- went to a different village, this one much poorer than the other (which was still extremely poor). All the kids there were SO sweet though, and we made them all lunch and took pictures and played games- it was hot, but i loved it.

Wednesday- Beach day! Both good and bad, for a few reasons, but overall it was pretty nice. Good day to just relax.

Thursday- Took a bus to Santo Dominico, the capital, and took a historical tour of the richer-er district, along with going to some cave complex where they filmed part of Jurassic Park known as "the tigers eye". We got on the plane to Miami after an hour delay, but because of such we missed out second flight by like 15 minutes. After arguing with the American Airlines customs people for like, 2 hours, they finally gave us lodges in this FANTASTIC sports resort called the Doral for the night. By the time we got there though, it was like 12, and after dinner we had around 2 hours to sleep before we had to leave to catch or flight back to Charlotte. Yeah, LONG travel day.

I'll post some of my favorite pictures later on when I get time!

-Devon