Look at me go!

I´m here! So i named this blog perfectly because the first thing people say when i introduce myself is ¨Maggi! Como la sopita!¨ There are commercials and signs for Maggi soup all over the place. anyway...I´m sitting in this sketchy little internet cafe by my house. And by internet cafe i mean small room with computers that you can pay to use. i live with a host mom, who is 70, and her host daughter who is 28. so far so good. somehow i accidentally agreed to go to a 3 and a half hour evangelical mass this morning...it was weird... i really wish i had kids in my family. i live in a fairly nice neighborhood for the area. i just went to another neighborhood where a bunch of peace corps volunteers live and it´s way more lively. they all have roosters and puppies and naked babies running around on dirt floors! we played baseball with a bunch of the kids and teenagers from the neighborhood in a field that was really muddy and flooded from the storms today. it was really fun :) i´ve found everything i read about dominican culture to ACTUALLY be true so far. when you walk down the street merengue or bachata is blasting and people are all sitting in their galerias (covered porches) in rocking chairs or at tables playing dominoes. and they loveeee baseball. all the guys wear baseball jersies and hats and you see baseball games in the streets everywhere. they play with sticks. no shoes necessary. this culture is very rich. i can´t wait to get into it more. the peace corps has kid of locked us up in training the last couple of days. lots of rules, safety procedures, medical information, and language assessment stuff. it´s been pretty frustrating because i just want to get out into the city and see what it´s like but i know we´re going to be able to this week. the other volunteers i´m training with are amazing, i think that´s going to be huge the next 2 years. i can´t believe we´ve only known each other a couple of days. weather here has been nuts. its so humid and it will be so sunny and hot one second and then thunder storming the next. it´s sweet i really like it. alright! sorry this post is so frazzled. i feel like i´ve done a jumbled catch up and from now on i can just tell stories about my day. oh p.s. i shower out of a bucket, which has been a tad difficult with long hair. i also sleep under a mosquito net, but still my legs are covered in bites...i take malaria meds though so i´m not too worried. okay. i´m going to run away from this computer now i love you guys bye!!!

Today is the first day of the rest of my life

So after the best going away party imaginable, I'm ready to go. Farewell my fellow Americans. Until we meet again...