4H Equipo GIS » Thomas http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Enfermo http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org/2007/11/01/enfermo/ http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org/2007/11/01/enfermo/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:28:06 +0000 4hequipogis http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org/2007/11/01/enfermo/ Well, it finally seems like the storm may have REALLY broken. We actually saw some stars tonight as we were walking back to our favorite outdoor marketplace. We had a difficult time getting everyone out the door of the hotel for this evening’s excursion, but we finally made it. We still missed a lot of the open stores because of our late departure AND because we had to make a little stop by la farmacia. Si, estoy enfermo. My stomach has been a little upset for the last couple of days. May be the milk products – delicious going in – but not settling so well. I took a nap this afternoon and definitely headed for the pharmacy this afternoon. Was thinking maybe TUMS or GAVISCON, but they were around USD20 for a bottle. Ended up with a single serving of Phillips Milk of Magnesia. About USD2. Not completely sure yet if it has helped or not, but I’m hoping for the best. I was going to take my nap today by the pool because it seemed like the sun was going to break through, but due to all the rain, the pool was still closed. The lady in the spa area said that they were going to clean it before re-opening. Anyway, after the pharmacy tonight, we went to the market area and walked by mostly closed stores but we did manage to find the little souvenier shop we had stopped by a few nights earlier. We were better negotiators tonight than before. I think all in all we got some pretty favorable deals. So it’s been decided that I’m a look alike for a Latin singer named Juanez. People look and say, “Coca-cola.” He has apparently done a coke commercial. Well, the kids decided that I needed to learn a Juanez song, so I’m working on La Camisa Negra. Hopefully, I will have it down for the trip to the beach tomorrow. Boca Chica is about 30 miles away. We’re hoping for good weather. But anyway, we found ourselves tonight back outside a location that Sarah swore a couple nights ago was a brothel. But instead, we found it to be one of the kids’ favorite restaurants so far. Kind of a cafe/italian/french/techno place. We had a really good time. I had one of my favorite Italian dishes – Gnocchi. We had a great walk back – the DR finally has their street lights working in Santo Domingo. We got some good pictures. I’m sure they’ll be posted on here or FLICKR. Well, I’ll hopefully get back on here tomorrow, but I need to go to sleep. Hasta manana.

]]> http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org/2007/11/01/enfermo/feed/ 0 The “storm” http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org/2007/10/28/the-storm/ http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org/2007/10/28/the-storm/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:09:21 +0000 4hequipogis http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org/2007/10/28/the-storm/ We just lost all POWER! The lights have gone off and the whole hotel is without light. This is probably because of the wind…we can hear the rain pounding our window outside. Its supposed to be to the west of us but what if it had gone over us? That wouldnt have been good..

[um..the laptop is running on battery, just in case you were wondering where i was writing from]

Oh! The lights just came back on…yay! Well this is going to be an interesting night….

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