For our last get together with our families in Sabana de la Mar, we all met at our trainer's house for a typical dominican meal of rice, chicken, fish, salad, and tons of it. My super awesome family, however, had a "surprise"that NONE of us suspected. All of a sudden, a giant car pulled up with speakers the size of small refridgerators and started blasting merengue music. My host sister and a bunch of her friends came in, and started doing a typical merengue dance from Sabana de la Mar. After about 3 or 4 amazing dances, a crazy local band of guys came out and started singing and dancing. For the finale, my host sister and her uncle danced a really awesome salsa, and then the music continued playing so that we American dorks could dance to crappy early 90s music and love it. For only being there for five weeks, we had QUITE the going away party.
To top it off, Bam Bam somehow was able to convince the discoteca owner to cancel his usual Friday events (strippers) so that we could have a nice, healthy dance night instead. We volunteers, our profes, Bam Bam, Franklin, Sosa, and the rest of their crew were pretty much the only people in the whole discoteca, but it made for a really fun time. We all danced the WHOLE night and didn't have to be harassed by a bunch of chester molesters! I already miss sabana...and especially its disco! I'm really looking forward to visiting soon.
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