Meet La Clase de Profe Kim

I can't believe I haven't posted a class picture sooner! Where do I even begin? Friends and family, meet craziness. Craziness, meet our friends and family. In all seriousness, these children are my loves. Every morning we are greeted with unconditional love when they jump into our arms to smother us with hugs and hellos. Who wouldn't want to start their day like that?

As Christmas break approaches and we return to the States, I am realizing just how much I am going to miss each little booger! Come January, I'll be dying for Anidelis screaming "Profe Kim!!" in what we call an "outside voice" and will feel like something is wrong with my day if I'm not changing Elijio's clothes because he couldn't wait for the bathroom break...Well, I'll almost miss that...

Settled and Celebrating

As the weeks go by, we have been slowly acquiring furniture and knick knacks for our apartment. As you can see, we are still without a couch, but cushions on the ground have done the job just fine!

First stop for furniture - Dominican estate sale. I have never been to one in the States but obviously we randomly found one here in the Dominican classified ads. We were a tad nervous to start our journey into the mountains of Puerto Plata to retrieve our furniture – especially when the guy e-mailed us again to make sure we didn’t want to consider purchasing the pistol he had for sale. Ummm…but no worries, we made it up the mountain and back down again with a wooden breakfast table with four chairs as well as a bamboo coffee table and two matching side tables for what we Americans would call a DEAL.

Charlie has also become quite the craftsman here. He made us a wooden table to increase our kitchen space as well as two wooden side tables that we affectionately painted orange. The paint appeared to be light orange but settled into a burnt orange. That color follows us everywhere we go – but we’re not complaining.

In addition to celebrating our home, we celebrated Charlie’s birthday in the apartment…

And at our new favorite getaway spot a few weeks later…it’s the Velero Hotel in Cabarete (a beach town 45 minutes or so from where we live). We celebrated both of our birthdays there and basked in the air conditioning, television, pool and delicious food...ahhh.