So this year is the first Halloween for my kids who were born in the Dominican Republic and I’m going to miss it. Didn’t have a choice really — our long awaited visa interview is scheduled for 6am Nov. 3rd. I was going to fly out Nov. 1 but tickets jumped up $200 from the …
Christmas Party at the British Ambassador’s House
So now that I had successfully renewed my ‘marbete’ and my car was now legal to drive on the Dominican streets (or as one witty friend said in response to me saying I was being blonde for waiting so long to renew my plates, that I was now a ‘legal’ blonde). so time to take …
Snippets of Dominican Life: Seductive Randomness
Above: Variety of products in local supermarket In the Dominican Republic they love their bureaucracy. It was the annual tax on car plates ‘marbetes‘. I knew I had to do it but I didn’t want to deal with it. Plus…money has been tight so I put it off. My mistake. I found out that the …
A Day at the Botanical Gardens…
Sunday my friends Kevin and Susan invited me and several other friends to the Santo Domingo Jardines Botánicos (Botanical Gardens) to have turkey sandwiches. Well perhaps I should re-phrase that, it actually was Kevin’s idea, unbeknown to Susan, and as it turns out, there was no turkey left over anyway. I was without a car …
Espectaculo Navideño!
Yesterday was the Christmas party at my children’s preschool: Maternal Montessori. The program is very good, the facility is very nice but the events they hold are nothing short of bizarre. I remember that I am in the Dominican Republic, a tropical country with Latin and African influences, where sexuality is part of the air …
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