Herrroooo family and friends

Today is our Sunday and we're just chilling at palm paradise; it's the resort that the baller older groups stay at when they volunteer... it is amazing and has a beautiful beach in front of it, a wonderful restaurant and everything like that... but our place is already home to me. It's closer to the village and has a lot more of the cultural experience I wanted, we're a lot closer together as a team because our rooms are closer and cooking our own meals and such, pretty much just better!
Everything here is a lot like Cuba and I find that I talk about that trip a lot... makes me want to go back even more now!
Yesterday was the parade and it was a lot more amazing than I thought it was going to be; all the little kids in it were adorable, the costumes were so elaborate, the women are so beautiful, and the dancing is amazing... not to mention the ELEPHANT that was in it!! all dressed up and about 4 feet away from me!! there was a bucket of water (i guess more like a garbage can) beside me and i was taking a video of the people dancing as they went by and turned around to see an elephant spraying people all around me! it just about got me too but i just made it out of the way and then the next spray was a little less intense haha sooo good
afterwards we went to this little village that DWC build as their first project because we were invited to see the lanterns they had made for the full moon festival. We watched kids playing and took ttons of pictures with them and tried to have as much conversationw ith them as we could... all the kids can write and read english really well but a lot of them can't speak it because they don't have the oportunity to and often they're picking up the accents of their teachers, but the occassional kid will walk up and surprise us with perfect english!
everyone is so hospitable... at the parade they gave us "welcome drinks" even though we weren't at their house we were just infront of a couple... at the village they served us all tea... and don't forget this isn't just a couple cups... it's serving 15 people... and they don't even think twice about it!
I don't know what it is about everything here... but the kids, the monkeys, the dogs/puppies, the cows/goats, the kittens are all SO adorable... and every time I see a baby something I think of Monseur l'oeuf and how soon it will be coming!!
anyways, I could probably write forever about everything but I want something to talk about when I come home and there are more people waiting for the computer
I'll update again soon and keep up on my adventures!
Love you all SO much
Karen

ps happy mothers day to all you women in my life!! that includes you too now Annie!!