So I thought I´d try something new so that you could get an idea of how wrong (or right) I can be sometimes when predicting what something is going to be like. I´m going to give my prediction about what I¨m doing tomorrow, and then after I´ve gone, I´ll tell you what really happened.

So, there´s a big graduation party tomorrow in Ojo de Agua for my host family´s cousins. I am going along, and it should last all day. Plus side: there will be amazing food. But this is what I think it´ll be like: embarazoso. That means awkward. Now, let me explain. My host sisters are both in their 30´s. We get along great, we talk a ton, it´s fun. They´re both more social than I am, especially when I´m self conscious about not knowing the language perfectly. My family will know everyone. I know no one. So we´re going to throw all of these elements together and predict that I´m going to be by the punch bowl. It should be fun, I´m just a bit worried about initiating conversation with Dominicans who talk millions of miles a second and don´t pronounce all their letters. (Dominican Spanish tends to drop the endings of words or random syllabols within words. I´m getting used to it, but it´s definitely a part of rural Dominican Spanish that makes it much harder to understand than city Dominican Spanish.)

Another point that might make it embarazoso is that today at lunch I was told to bring my camera because Doña Dedé of the Mirabal sisters (see previous post or look here) will probably be there. She´s their neighbor and the boss of one of the cousin-graduates at a health clinic. So now we have an image of Kristin going, hanging out by a punch bowl, and paparazzi-style taking pictures of a surviving Dominican heroine. Qué bueno. If I were in the states, I would need at LEAST a venti iced americano in order to feel confident going into this experience. Probably two.

Stay tuned for what actually goes down. =)