Around Yamasa

I realized that I haven’t posted any pictures of my actual site… So, here we go!

Here is my host family’s house! The top is my host sister’s one-room apartment, the bottom right part is the little store my host dad runs, and the bottom left part is the actual house.

This is my room in my host family’s house.

My lightbulb, towel, and clothes line

This is the bathroom. To shower, you just splash some water from the blue drum. 

My host dad’s little store. You can buy a cap-full of oil, thirty cents of sugar, half a can of condensed milk, etc.

The neighborhood:

Here is my CTC! Above it is the blue aqueduct building, where some houses in the town theoretically get their water.

Notice the bright colors, odd shapes and textures, use of bars, disregard for meaningful use of space, and complete out-of-place-ness. Remember: these centers used to be SHIPPING CONTAINERS.

More around the town:

 

CHICKENS

 

That about covers half the town.  The other half is more colmados and little stores, and the town park.  I’ll take some more pictures next time I’m out that way. We are about an hour outside the capital, so pretty much everything is oriented that way.  Things are expensive, and the nearest supermarket is in the capital (Villa Mella). To go anywhere else in the country, you have to first go through Santo Domingo.

I’ll be here for the next two years!