The host family that we are staying with lives in the city of Barahona. Like any city, it has its different neighborhoods, which I am unfamiliar with but know they are there. We are staying on a fairly quiet street with not a lot of traffic. We get the feeling of the city, but without the raucus. Until about 2am that is. At about this time, once we have fallen asleep, the roosters begin to crow. These are not your normal farm roosters that sound the alarm at dawn. These are the city roosters that don't care when they go off. Sleep has been a little hard to come by so we try to sleep when we can.
Yesterday we had the luxury of sleeping in, even after our, like clockwork, 2am alarm. We then decided to tour around town and went to the market.
It was my first trip to the market, and it was a great experience. It was a lot like Pike Place actually, only not quite as fresh or as high of a quality. That and there was a bit of a stentch everywhere. But once you got past that, and the skinned goats, or the live chickens tied to the back of motorsycles, it was a lot like Pike Place. Needless to say, it was quite the experience! After our trip to the market, we spent the day at the beach where we played a little catch and swam in the carribean. Sometimes it's rough down here.
Today we went to church in the morning and are now preparing for lunch. Later this afternoon we are going to a baseball game to do some more "work". It's really a lot of fun and I'm excited to take more film and pictures. Below are a few pictures from the game on Friday night. And yes, at one of the fields there was a horse tied up in the outfield. That is the field that the ILB has been given permission to use from the government.
The field ILB recieved from the government.
The horse tied up in the outfield, kinda like Safeco.
Players that we will be following.
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