Thursday, 17. January 2008, 02:07:12
Volunteer, Peace Corps
While cleaning out my condo the past week or so I found my old copies of Gringo Grita while I was a Peace Corps Volunteer en la Republica Dominicana. Brought back some fond memories (except for some of the crappy poems I wrote that are in some of the issues). Then I thought, "Well shoot, there's no copyright issues that I see with these copies, so why not digitize them and make them available electronically?" I think so long as I have space in my Opera account I'll make this blog entry a depository of those issues I have. For anyone out there who somehow finds this blog entry and was a PCDR volunteer between the timeframe mentioned in title please leave a comment to let me know how you're doing and what you're doing. Enjoy! I should have something like nine issues aqui si dios quiere. Si yo no tengo espacio suficiente en esta cuenta, yo voy a buscar otras posibilidades a hacerlas disponible para ustedes.
keywords: Peace Corps Dominican Republic, PCDR, Gringo Grita
Tuesday, 3. March 1998, 06:49:59
Travels, Volunteer, Peace Corps
Administrative/Swear-in/COS photos are here.
Campo photos are here.
One of the highlights of my experience there was Disaster Relief when Hurricane Georges past through the country. Kind of funny, I was ordered by PCDR to evacuate to the capital because at the time the hurricane was forcasted to pass through my site. After frantically calling my Peace Corps neighbor to get her butt down from the mountains and head to the capital, I went back to my site, got my stuff, and traveled to the "capitai." Well, turns out the hurricane's eye would pass just north of Santo Domingo so the 50+ volunteers in the capital were in for a ride. Afterwards, after a few days, Peace Corps Dominican Republic offered to help the Dominican Government and they accepted. Many of us helped in refuge camps. I helped at an airport with numerous volunteers with food distribution. Initially I was coordinating with numerous helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft and getting them loaded and ready to be sent out to other points in the country, where the food would then be "starbursted". I think at one point I calculated we were sending out 10 tons of food a day before it turned into a truck distribution program.
Hurricane Georges Photos (from my perspective and limited time taking them) are
here.
Some project photos are here.
Map taken from WorldAtlas.com
Here's my
COS (Close of Service) group taken at a All-Inclusive Resort on the Caribbean side of the Dominican Rebublic. Thanks for the picture, Steven Patton!
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