Trabajo y Testigos de Jehovah

I've been a busy little bee the past few weeks and it's only going to get worse in the coming month. We have a new group of Peace Corps Trainees in country and that means I'm starting on the extremely uncomfortable process of visiting potential host families. "Why so uncomfortable?" you my ask. My objective is to go in to houses of complete strangers, judge whether the houses meet minimum standards of safety (most do not), instruct poor people to improve their house, decide who has the best house in the community, and then stay the night there. During that completely relaxing and fun overnight I have to train families on cleanliness, water and food safety, and then I get to tell them how much the volunteers will be paying them monthly to live there. Then I leave and never see these people ever again. And if that's not descriptive enough I got scabies during the last round of these visits.

On top of organizing these host family visits I'm also finishing up the editing of the Somos Mujeres income generation manual. I'm so excited that we are almost at the final stages before printing. I've been working on the Somos Mujeres initiative since I came to PCDR and I've been leading the project since June of last year and it's so cool to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I'll end today on a funny/creepy note. I'm pretty sure I'm being stalked by Jehovah's Witnesses. My neighborhood in Samana is very quiet and tranquilo which is why I chose it. It is also full of evangelical Christians. There are a lot, A LOT of Jehovah's Witnesses in Samana (weird right?) and they love coming to my neighborhood to witness to the church-y people here. Dominicans mostly think that their beliefs are a little strange, but are nothing if not polite so they always listen to the hours long conversation that inevitably ensues. I honestly don't have the time to listen to nonsense. I have less time to listen to the nonsense of people who believe that on 144,000 people are EVER going to heaven.

Well, I must be on some list somewhere because I'm pretty sure I'm now being stalked by theJWs. Today two men came to the house and I sent Kelvin to deal with them. They have now become almost a bi-weekly occurrence and it makes me violently angry whenever I see white people in their Sunday best walking down my street.  These people asked for me by name. BY NAME! My neighbors don't even know my name. I've stopped being polite, it's all out war between me and the JWs. I'm trying to find this graphic in Spanish: