Week 7 in the DR!

This week can be summed up in three words: lice, funerals and waterfalls!  It has been the weirdest week ever, so much has happened and it has been insane!

This week we discovered that a few of the girls had lice which is not a fun thing to discover haha.  And as the week went on, more and more girls discovered they had some lice.  Luckily I haven't had any all week, but it has been insane around here.  We've been washing all of the sheets/clothes we've worn recently and have been soaking our hair in all kinds of oils.  One night we even slept on the floor in the kitchen after we bleached the floors in our room haha, it has been rough.  Fun stuff! This is our neighbor Nicolasa double checking that the rest of us didn't have any!

Also, this week one of the ILP coordinators came to visit and check up on things here.  It has been so hard here and it was good to tell him that and all about our concerns.  Food has been a bit of an issue since we're hungry a lot of the times but now he knows and is working to fix that and some other issues! He took us out to pizza the last night he was here which was so fun!  We had a big group go to the Italian place near our house and ate our body weight in pizza :)

Thursday morning we had a very interesting experience haha.  While we were eating breakfast we got a message from one of our head teachers telling us that the principal from our school, Javillar, had died and that we needed to get ready super fast and go to a memorial for her.  So we all hurried, got ready and hopped in a few taxis.  When we got there, we found out that it was the principal's sister who had died, not the principal herself.  We walked in and saw the principal crying, we all walked over and gave her a hug.  And then the family members all got us chairs and had us sit down in this small room with the family all surrounding the open casket.  It was a really sad moment for this family but it was so awkward for us because we had no idea who this lady was and were stuck in this tiny room with just her family.  We didn't stay for too long but it was for sure one of the weirdest moments of my life!

Then on Saturday we headed to 27 waterfalls!  It is exactly what it sounds like haha, 27 waterfalls that you slide down/jump off of that all loop together!  It was so pretty and so fun!  The water was pretty cold but it was really fun to go through each waterfall with all of the girls!