second day

1/21/08

 

first full day in Punta Cana.  Breakfast around 9 and we started Spanish class with Nancy at 10.  This was my first spanish class.  Lunch and break at 12.  Kristin and Katherine and I walked around the gardens surrounding our building. It is so beautiful, there are flower gardens and tropical plants everywhere.  More class.  There is a rhinoceros iguana habitat outside of our building to help repopulate them.  They are really big vicious iguanas that can get up to 100 lbs! For our first dinner out, we go into Punta Cana village where there are a few restaurants and little shops. We eat at Pizzarelli, one of the three restaurants that we can go to with our meal cards.  After dinner we went to the resort lobby with Nancy.  She took us to a lounge in the lobby that was empty but one of the hotel employees came and turned music on for us.  Nancy and the employee taught us how to dance merengue.  It was so much fun. There were old record covers on the wall of famous salsa, and merengue bands