YES! IT´S SO GOOD!

I took a guagua (public bus) to Las Terrenas from Santo Domingo. It took 2 1/2 hours, in which I made friends with Isabel, a Frenchwoman, Jesús, a Dominican traffic cop, an American couple and a family of Germans/Dutch (?). There´s so much chat in this country, it´s like Ireland in the sun.

Las Terrenas is beautiful. It´s busy, noisy and in many parts it´s as dirty as Santo Domingo. But it´s so colourful, and lively, and right on the ocean. My new bosses met me at the bus stop and brought me to my house, which I´m sharing with 2 Basque girls and an American girl, all of whom are lovely. I walked on the beach and marvelled at how warm the Atlantic can be. I had a fresh mango & orange juice in a beach bar and tried to spot the humpback whale that other people at the bar had seen on its way to Samaná bay for calving and mating time (it´s like a whale maternity hospital in Copperface Jack´s). Then I joined my colleagues for a free Zumba class on the beach (that was hilarious). An amazing first day. 

I imagine the rest of this blog is just going to be all the beach photos I don´t want to flood Facebook with. I don´t care if nobody reads this, I hope I just keep writing so I can record this experience for myself. I´m very happy I came here.

The beach 5 minutes from my house!

A one-eyed street dog. She was cool.