Still Waiting

I'm still waiting on funding for the aqueduct. I don't know if I've posted this before and I'm too lazy to go back and check, but the meeting with the local mayor basically fell through. We are now trying to get money through a foundation that is based out of one of the all-inclusive resorts in the area. The money comes from Canada, and the director of the foundation, a lovely Argentinian woman, seemed fairly confident that our grants would be approved. The grant should have arrived in Canada last Friday for review, and a decision would be made in a week or two. If in fact it does get approved, it could take another month after approval till we actually receive the money.

So, things are still pretty slow-going here in the DR with not much to post about. Yesterday I went to the capital to get some vaccinations that I was due for. I spent about 7 hours in transit yesterday just to be in the capital for about 3 hours. Oh well, it was at least on comfortable transportation on a nice big air conditioned bus rather than some crowded car. Now I'm sitting in the BK Lounge (otherwise known as Burger King), surfing on the free wifi which is the fastest I have yet to use in this country. Fast food restaurants in the states should come take a field trip to the fast food restaurants here because here the workers are friendly and the places are always immaculate.

That's it for now.