MIX TAPES (anything that's not bachata or merengue)

Kool-Aid Packets (good for covering the taste of water that's been purified with chlorine or iodine)

Candy (but not chocolate, it will melt)

Instant Oatmeal

Zip Lock baggies

Cotton Boxer Shorts, size 32 (mine keep disappearing; I'm not sure why)

Pictures Of My Friends (I didn't bring enough)

Postcards and Letters (it seems like a small thing, but there really is nothing better than just having a piece of real mail in the box at Corps HQ.)

Hand Sanitizing Lotion (I don't know why it's impossible to buy this here)

Paperback books

Comic books

Socks

It turns out that I can have packages sent to me and I will only have to pay customs fees on them if they contain some form of contraband. Unfortunately, no one could tell me exactly what qualifies as contraband here, but I think socks, comic books, candy, mix tapes, pre-sweetened kool-aid packets, pictures, paperbacks (please, send paperbacks!) and small items like that are fine. Smaller packages are less likely to be searched, but all mail to PC volunteers is screened for anthrax three times before we get it, so it takes about three weeks or so.

Use this address for ALL MAIL:
PCV Dave Hotstream
Cuerpo de Paz
451 Avenida Bolivar
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
(809) 685-4102