July 14, 2013

This is just a short photo update with various themes:

One way to make an improvised basketball court; use a tree.

Aftermath of Tropical Storm Chantal: over 8000 people were displaced in Santo Domingo alone and over 1000 homes were affected by the storm. These people are the poorest of the poor who live in huts by the river. In addition, the Church youth were just beginning their camp-out at the Church camp grounds in Bonao and had to be evacuated. This, of course, was after months of planning, fund raising, ordering buses to transport the youth, etc. There was even youth from the wards in Puerto Rico who were either flown over or came by the ferry. The camp-out was from Monday to Friday and they were only able to enjoy 1 day of it. So sad. However, it was good the leaders heeded the warnings. Bonao was hit pretty heavily and one of the two deaths from the storm was there.  A fireman was trying to clear a storm drain that was stopped up and the water was rushing so fast that he was sucked into the drain. So sad.


These are wires to who knows what but I know our Tricom internet service is in there somewhere and is still working well.  This is how workers (Who knows which ones?)  left the area after working on it. That's the cover on the floor that should be on the wall covering the wires that should be inside that opening.  This is in the small hallway outside our condo. Projects being left uncompleted is so typical here. Out in front of our building the city has been working on the street and sidewalk and it is looking quite nice. Part of the project included putting trees in where they had left square spaces in the concrete for the trees.  After several months, the trees were finally planted (we had been wondering all this time what was to go in those square spaces) however they must have run out of trees or two died in transit but there are still two square spaces without trees.  This has been about 3 weeks now.  So funny.




This beasty greeted at church last Sunday. Isn't it just as cute as can be. ha ha ha ha ha

64 days

Love ya all!!!

Nancy