Finally out of Santo Domingo

We have left Santo Domingo behind, along with the initial core training section of Entrena, and have moved onto the CBT training session.  CBT will focus on the technical side of our training: farming, stove building, plant recognition and all sorts of other fun environment related things.  The CBT training will take place in the mountains just north of Santiago in a grouping of four small mountain pueblos.  Our actual classes will be taking place in a a building that was originally built to be Trujillo's summer home, and local legend says that the mansion is also the real scene of the murder of the Mirabel sisters, who opposed Trujillo's dictatorship.  Today, we were in Monte Cristi, a small town on the North Coast with a distinctly French feel within eyesight of Haiti.  It has been a breath of fresh air to escape the cluster, congestion and pollution of the capital.  I am looking forward to the next five weeks of CBT training with high expectations.