Christmas stuff

We just had the most "interesting" concert we have ever been to: Christmas Concert in the Dominican Blaring music, pitch black, hurlding rock hard candies,a little devil running around(i am not kidding), drunk eight-year olds, and swearing very loudly. It started with the drunk eight-year olds swinging their bottles of cerveza and slurring their words and crashing into each other. In which Ethan dies in the end by a drunk driver crashing into him. Next their was the little devil running around scaring the little kids. Finally there was the little angel's jumping and spinning, chucking rock hard candies in the dim lighting. In the end all that we got from it was a few bruises and some interesting memories.

Yesterday we went to a christmas caroling\giving out food to the poor kinda thing.
We hopped into the back of a Daihatsu (a large japanese truck) and drove into the country giving out bags of "Christmas dinner". We only sang two songs though; Alegro bango, and Feliz Navidad. We hardly knew the words to the first one. The Dominicans didn't really seem to understand what was going on but I still think they were thankful. As you can see in the picture, we went with Escuela Caribe. It was neat to do some more missionary-type things.

Comunity Service

If you thought that us so called "missionary kids" wouldn't actually make a difference in this country.... you were wrong... We were just sitting down for lunch when suddenly our mom appeared at school saying we should finish eating in the next 2 minutes and get in the truck.
We wolfed down our food and jumped in the truck and sped away. We drove in the direction of Manaboa until we spotted our uncle, Terry and a group of students from Escuala Caribe surounding a daihatsu filled with pickaxes and shovels. We split into two groups. One, emptying a flooded school. And the other building a driveway. We picked the driveway,so till 5:00 we shoveled,pickaxed and literally built him a driveway from the rubble.
You see, there was tropical storm Olga a while ago and there where a few houses that the river went through. So we went to help.
Now on Friday we are doing a program similar to christmas cheer board.
We're good kids. :)

The things I would do again

Out on the ocean waiting for the next wave we peer back and see it growing behind us, we start to paddle, it comes closer steadily it reaches us, we push forward feeling at pull us across water, we struggle to the kneeling position and lean forward feeling the rush of air and the relaxation of our muscles from the paddle out. We cautiously move in to the next position, standing. We carve the wave by shifting our weight to the other side of the board feeling something we have never felt- flying...

We will start from the begining. A few weeks back our family rented a house at Cabarete and we stayed there for three days. During those three days we did: boogieboarding, crabhunting, swimming, and Surfing! When we went surfing, my Uncle Terry taught us how to sit on the board and swim with it. We had to wear aqua shoes because we were surfing on a coral reef and there was sea urchins. When we actually got on the water, we saw how big the waves were: over 6 feet high! So we swam out and we learned the hard part the WhiteWater. It was so tiring, it kept on pull us around! By the end we were so tired yet so ready to go again.

After the beach we were ready for some less salty water so we packed up and drove to 27 WaterFalls. 27 WaterFalls is a tourist attraction where we literally climb up 27 waterfalls. You put on helmets and lifejackets and head out with a tour-guide. On some of the waterfalls they actually have to hoist you up some slipery waterslide-like waterfalls. It was SO beautiful. At the end we jumped down them. JUMPED! They were over 20ft! The only bad part was we had to go back half way because we ran out of time.

Those are a few things I would do again...