strike!

Yesterday, the Dominicans went on strike to protest all sorts of things, including the water and elecricity supply. However, it has not occurred to many of them to try paying for their utilities and see what happens to the continuity of services. There were some warnings of the strike getting violent, but in the end it just meant serious disruptions in public transporation (thank goodness for my carpool) and lighter traffic on the roads.

This weekend of course had its own transporation adventures for me and the verdadera rubia visiting me. Katie and I managed to have a good weekend down in the southwest of the country despite communication issues and problems with the bus system, but yelling at taxi drivers was kept to a minimum.

Now it's serious crunch time at work, and I have to somehow fabricate a project experience report out of interviews with staff and clients I couldn't understand a good quarter of the time, and they couldn't understand my questions sometimes either. Really, I thought I was going to be in a country where I would understand the language/be understood... I give up. Mi esfuerza está de huelga.