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Idea... try to frying the tortillas in a little oil and sprinkle salt to make homemade tortilla chips, this is always a hit here! Here, things are actually getting occasionally chilly.  At night I usually where a sweat shirt, and I wish I had brought long sleeve shirts... but what I know think is cold might only be 65, im not sure when everything is in celsius.  Anyways tomorrow, I am heading to a Christmas Fair until Tuesday.  The fair is in the capital for 5 days, and this year it is dedicated to my artisan association!  And yesterday I just found out that the government decided to give us funding for our transportation and lodging there.... so this means we have less costs and my artisans can make more money yay!  My mission for this fair is also to get the artisans more organized, so my goal is to get them to put prices on all their merchandise they are selling (because as I told them, everyone understand numbers no matter what language they are speaking).  And I'm going to go print out sheets today for them to write down there daily sales in categories of types of merchandise, and I'm passing out a marketing survey in English and Spanish to the customers.  I'll update later to see if any of these grand plans work....  Also, I am super excited about the fair because a lot of my Peace Corps friends are going to be there, and on Saturday the head of the PC here is throwing a Christmas Party.  Also, I am staying with this lady who works for the US govt. and offered that I could stay with her for free.  On the phone I think she said she worked for the CIA, but I probably misheard her.... because I didn't think you could just tell people that.  Anyways thats whats going on down here!  Here is a picture of what all Volunteers down in the DR truly want for Christmas!

And the other picture is my friend and her kids, who I'm trying to help with her jewelry making business!  I found a cool shell on the beach and she made me a really pretty necklace with matching earings yesterday!  peace out from the dirty south!