The second day of the ecotour was another early (for a teenager) start, and very sleepy, coffee-fuelled breakfast. We actually had what is a typical Dominican breakfast of Mangu, fried cheese and a fried egg, however as I live in the city I don't usually have time for a big cooked breakfast so we barely eat it. We set off, but before we went off on the day's activities we went down the Malecon of Los Pedernales, which is really the smallest malecon I have e...

The morning of 8th January saw a 7am wake-up (which, for me, is EARLY, since I'm a teenager and it was the holidays and all) and Papi dropped me off at Pablo's apartment, where I waited with Gran and Richard for our tour guides to arrive. When they did, we all piled our bags downstairs and met them, they were a couple called Manny and Ollie (Manny being short for Manuel and Ollie being short for...I'm not actually sure that her name was? Gran, say in the comme...

The rest of the Christmas holiodays was spent pretty much just having fun! On the 30th I went off with Jenny and her friend to the theme park in Santa Domingo, Iguana Park. It was basically like a huge funfair, with no big rollercoasters but lots of smaller rides. It was really fun and I enjoyed just about every one of them, expect for one that is called 'RING OF FIRE!', and this one I disliked because it went upside down a lot (which I'm usually fine with) bu...

Again, I'm terrible at updating. I keep promising it'll be soon then it completely ISN'T soon and instead of getting my act together all I can do is procrastinate and I don't know why, I think I have a problem. I need procrastination like an addict needs drugs. BUT I'M WORKING THROUGH IT GUYS! I'M GETTING BETTER I PROMISE! So we come to the exams...I was incredibly worried about these, because although they don't actually *mean* anything for me academically I st...

Okay, so I realise that it has been a very long time since I wrote, but with exams and christmas the blog just got completely pushed to the back of my mind, but I am here now! I'm going to do a bit of a brief recap of November/December since I really do want to get you all up to date as quickly as possible! So, the things that happened during that time are: 24th Nov - There was a music presentation in my class, and each group of two got given a different...