The DR

Hey,
The plane ride was long. and i can't believe that you didn't know who i was when i called you. gosh. you made me feel special. jk. anyway, the mtc here is just called the ccm. the temple is right beside us and it is huge. everything is taken care of here and it looks really nice. but everywhere else it's crazy. i don't have enough time to email mom and dad, so send them this. My p-day's are on Thursday now. and we only get mail on wednesdays. we can only send mail on fridays, and it takes forever to get there. The weather here feels alot like home. The tropical trees throw me off though....and seeing the ocean. and it raining everyday. and the power going out everyday. and eating the same thing rice and beans of course, but i like it. We went to the university here and it was crazy. We were told that 100,000 people go there. We walked in at it looked like a city. it was nuts. i felt so weird on the way there because everyone was just staring at us as we walked. Seeing people with guns was weird too. Everyone here has a tiny motorcylce that can barely pull them. it's so weird. The streets are so chaotic too. It seems like there's no rules. if you want to go somewhere then you do it anyway that you can. crossing the street felt extremely weird. We talked to alot of people. Alot knew some english. It was so frustrating talking to people and then they would answer and you couldn't understand a word. they speak so fast, and cut out half the sounds...it's nuts. and i bet that you still know more spanish. like i said, everything that we've done was just review for me. Talking to people is so hard. I can write and read alot, but talking is way difficult, but i'm getting better, especially since we are teaching the lessons here in spanish. tomorrow is going to be our first TA here (here it's called a simulation). Well i have to go do my service project (pick up trash at the university, i'll try to write more later.) bye