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Experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic
My Address
Jasmine Carver, PCV
Cuerpo de Paz
451 Avenida Bolivar, Gazcue
Apartado Postal 1412
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Cuerpo de Paz
451 Avenida Bolivar, Gazcue
Apartado Postal 1412
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Some DR Links
Books I´ve Read Since May 2009
- My Own Country, Abraham Verghese
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot Reb
- The Tipping Point, Malcom Gladwell
- The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
- The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin
- Outliers, Malcom Gladwell
- The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
- In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
- Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Epidemiology: An Introduction, Kenneth Rothman
- New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers, Robert Desowitz
- Stuffed and Starved, Raj Patel
- Epidemiology, Leon Gordis
- Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby
- Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
- Outcasts United, Warren St. John
- Heat, Bill Buford
- The Help, Kathryn Sockett
- Deep Economy, Bill McKibben
- Same Kind of Different as Me, Ron Hall, Denver Moore
- Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
- Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber
- American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, Heidi Durrow
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
- Don't Lets go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexander Fuller
- Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin
- The Blind Side, Michael Lewis
- All Over Creation, Ruth Ozeki
- The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
- Range of Motion, Elizabeth Berg
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
- Goodnight Nobody, Jennifer Weiner
- Rescuing Rose, Isabel Wolff
- Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
- Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
- Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes
- Ladies with Prospects, Cynthia Hartwick
- Crow Planet, Lyanda Haupt
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- Being Committed, Anna Maxted
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert
- A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
- About a Boy, Nick Hornby
- Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells
- Ultramarathon Man, Dean Karnazes
- The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, Aurelie Sheehan
- Cause Celeb, Helen Fielding
- Infections and Inequalities, Paul Farmer
- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
- Remember Me, Sophie Kinsella
- Chasing Harry Winston, Lauren Weisberger
- The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
- Body Surfing, Anita Shreve
- A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
- Body Surfing, Anita Shreve
- How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
- Olive Kitteredge, Elizabeth Strout
- Little Bee, Chris Cleave
- One Day, David Nicholls
- Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
- A Total Waste of Makeup, Kim Gruenenfelder
- Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
- Tara Road, Maeve Binchy
- The Man of My Dreams, Curtis Sittenfeld
- Living Poor, Moritz Thomsen
- I Remember You, Harriet Evans
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
- Rise and Shine, Anna Quindlen
- Shoe Addicts Anonymous, Beth Harbison
- The Color of Water, James McBride
- Between, Georgia, Joshilyn Jackson
- Harvesting the Heart, Jodi Picoult
- Solomon Sisters Wise Up, Melissa Senate
- Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo and Niall Ferguson
- Essentials of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Manya Magnus
- The Lost Hours, Karen White
- The Secret of Everything, Barbara O'Neal
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
- Kabul Beauty School, Deborah Rodriguez
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus
- Best Friends, Martha Moody
- The Easy Hour, Leslie Stella
- Can You Keep a Secret, Sophie Kinsella
- On That Day, Everybody Ate, Margaret Trost
- The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen
- High Maintenance, Jennifer Belle
- Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
- The 100-Mile Diet, Alisa Smith, J B MacKinnon
- Empire Falls, Richard Russo
- Shopgirl, Steve Martin
- The New New Thing, Michael Lewis
- Quentins, Meave Binchy
- Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
- The True and Outstanding Adventures, Elisabeth Robinson
- Arabian Jazz, Diana Abu-Jaber
- Jesus Land, Julia Scheeres
- Big Trouble, Dave Barry
- Genome, Matt Ridley
- In the River They Swim, Michael Fairbanks...
- Belong to Me, Marisa de los Santos
- Family Tree, Barbara Delinsky
- Lucy Sullivan, Marian Keyes
- Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
- The Other Side of the Story, Marian Keyes
- Marley and Me, John Grogan
- Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
- In the Name of Salome, Julia Alverez
- Sushi For Beginners, Marian Keyes
- The Gate Crasher, Madeleine Wickham
- The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin
- Last Chance Saloon, Marian Keyes
- The Friday Night Knitting Club, Kate Jacobs
- Then She Found Me, Elinor Lipman
- Nine Hills to Nambakaha, Sarah Erdman
- Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner
- Back When We Were Grownups, Anne Tyler
- Two Caravans, Marina Lewycka
- Pledged, Alexandra Robbins
- Eyes of the Heart, Jean Bertrand Aristide
- Why the Cocks Fight, Michele Wucker
- Mountains Beyond Mountains, Paul Farmer
- Little Earthquakes, Jennifer Weiner
- The Things They Carried, Tim O´Brien
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- El Diario de Bridget Jones, Helen Fielding
- Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- Before We Were Free, Julia Alverez
- The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
- In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alverez
- Animal Vegetable Mineral, Barbara Kinsolver
Disclaimer
The content in this blog is my own and does not represent the views or opinions of the US government or the Peace Corps.
Nice Sman kiss---you know how it's done :) I'm so happy the family could visit you....
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