On Thursday there was a 'pulga' (yard sale) at the preschool in Los Higos. When we host teams, they often leave donations (usually clothes, towels, and sheets) behind at the base. Rather than give these items away, Students International allows sites to sell them at low cost to raise money to buy things for the sites that wouldn't normally be included in our regular budgets. For example, a few months ago Johana had a pulga at the preschool to buy a television for the school.
The community always looks forward to sales like this. The picture below shows the crowd waiting at the gate for the sale to begin.
These pictures (which are my favorites) shows the people rushing towards the school once the gate was opened.
Here the people are crowded onto the porch of the school, looking through the items for sale:
2 comments:
I like "pulgas" too and have been known to go early, but not quite that enthusiastically! Of course, all of those things are much more common here ...
I don't think you'll ever find Americans as eager to go to yard sales as Dominicans are. I've seen 'pulgas' with guards at the door.
Post a Comment