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Lisa del Caribe

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About Me


I enjoy listening to the rain on my corregated zinc roof and mopping my cement floor. I love enjoying a freshly picked papaya or pineapple and hanging out with my 50 - year-old neighbor, Amparo, sipping a cafecito and gossiping about the neighbors because there is nothing else to do. I love my dog Keisi, even though she eats my underwear. I live to hang out with the muchachos in my barrio and play a game of baseball in the street, using trash as the bases. It's the simple things in life that make it really special. I love GOD, coffee surfing, music, con-con, fried plantains, bachata, being overly obnoxious and dramatic about everything.I'm in my last months of the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic (Gloria al Señor!!) I will be moving back to San Diego in November to reassume my surfer-beach-bum-punkrock lifestyle in San Diego and enjoy the wonderfully materialistic United States of America in all its beautiful glory. I will then be off to grad school at Tulane in Fall of 2008 to get my MPH in Public Health. Check out my ridiculously simple life (but better than Paris and Nikki Hilton's) at: http://www.travelpod.com/z?u=lisalew&t=cuerpodepaz&p =tpod Also, check out PEACE CORPS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC!! BRAND NEW: http://dominican.peacecorps.gov Las Terrenas, DR....Me and the hottest girls in San DiegoMy fellow YFCD volunteers at Swearing-in.... ..And the crew one year later.MUAH..luv you guys!Peace Corps Life sure is tough.....The "Estrellitas"- my girls groupPLAYBOY: The Girls of the Peace CorpsSoftball in the D.R.!!Last days as a blonde...
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I'll miss you ladies!Me & the Crew in MexicoBoxer chick: WATCH OUT!ROCK STARS!! Where's Nate?!FamiliaOh, there's Nate!

My Interests

God, SURFING SURFING SURFING!!!! Fitness and nutrition, any sporting activity Singing (i'm former lead front "woman" of the band SOUTH OF SOMEWHERE - http://www.myspace.com/southofsomewhere and I also do some independent stuff...) Playing my guitar, Sports(Volleyball, SURFING, running, swimming, softball), Volunteering, Salsa Dancing, Any dancing! Making people laugh, Cheese

I'd like to meet:

Mother Teresa (if she were alive) My grandmother, My future husband (not on myspace, of course, but in reality what he would be like and if he would be able to cook) Barney

Music:

Pretty much anything I can dance to, sing to, or just jam to in my carCDs: Spanish salsa, Jimi Hendrix, Lauren Hill, Aventura, Reik, Rebelde, Jet, Heart, Veruca Salt, Poe, Jenn Grinels, Fiona Apple, The Cars, Britney spears (guilty pleasure). Steve Polz, Saturday Night Fever, Dixie Chicks, Alicia Keys, System of a down, 311, Soundgarden, Nelly Furtado and many more ecclectic tunes

Movies:

My favorite movie of all time is the Sandlot

Television:

I am very against television. I have not watched television in 3 years. I think it poisons the minds of society. Although, if I must succumb, I happen to rent all the old Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes from Netflix which I think is the most genious show to ever be created...And damn funny too!

Books:

I just read Pride and Predjudice, Sleeping Beauty, Swimming, DaVinci code, and lots of cheesy trashy romance novels to pass the time away in my pueblo, oh, I also LOVE A million different pieces by James Frey...everyone should read this book!

Heroes:

My late Grandmother Julie Cianci, who lost a battle with breast cancer right after I was born, but inspired many, WOMEN IN POLITICS and any women that kick ass! People that want to make a difference in the world in a positive way,

My Blog

Britney Spears is Fat

There has been a hype lately that has taken America by storm, that is so outrageous, CNN feels that it needs to be broadcast to the United States people.  That is Britney Spears' VMA performance....
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:32:00 PST

BACK IN THE US of A Homecoming Schedule

Yes, it is the moment you have waited for these two whole years (and three months to be exact).  I have had many friends and family asking when I will be visiting them, coming home, etc so they c...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:30:00 PST

What Makes My friends so special

Being here in the Peace Corps has made me realize how important my friends and family are back in the States.  I was blessed to have such great girlfriends while living in San Diego as I reflecte...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Wed, 23 May 2007 06:41:00 PST

Worst Valentine's Ever!

Some of you hate valentine's with a passion...As for me, I have always loved the holdiday with or without a man....sharing in the joy of pink hearts and chocolate and cookies with sprinkles and flower...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:13:00 PST

Thank you LA Sparks!!!

I would like to thank the Los Angeles WNBA team, the Sparks for sending me six brand new basketballs for my girls' basketball team.  These basketballs will go toward the Servir y Jugar program to...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:17:00 PST

I survived Dengue...AGAIN!!!

So after getting out of the hospital for having  DengueHemmoragic fever, (my second bout of the dengue demon in less than a year) maybe a few of you were curious to find out how you could join in...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:54:00 PST

What I did on my summer vacation

I had a great time in San Diego and Vegas with everyone.  It truly was great to be back in the States!  I miss everyone and hope you will enjoy my photo journal of my great trip back home! B...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:38:00 PST

How to join the Peace Corps without the two year committment!

I always recieve emails from people who ask me about Peace Corps but don't know if it is for them. In the meantime, you don't have to give up two years of your life to help out others in developing co...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 07:21:00 PST

Love sometimes can be so painful....

I have a new love and all day I'm obsessed. I can't concentrate and my palms are sweaty thinking about it. No, a man can't give me this sort of tingly feeling. It's my new love of the waves. So despit...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:23:00 PST

How to Get a Girlfriend on Myspace...Part Two!

All righty kids, for those of you who were fans of my previous "How to Get a Girlfriend on Myspace" blog, and also those of you who still remained clueless after reading it, I have come up with a sequ...
Posted by Lisa del Caribe on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:08:00 PST