Re: Hey, over the weekend
I used to teach English As a Second Language in the DR (ICDA) and I had a student who worked for the goverment's foreign relation office (cancilleria) and we used to talk about this. She said there are Dominicans basically in every part of the world. Mongolia, South Africa, Alaska, Norway, Somalia, Afganistan, Bosnia, Australia...you name it. I remember she told me they once got a request from a Dominican family who lives in the Seychelle Islands. These are a group of small islands off the coast of Africa, and the unlikeliest place to find people from the DR. She also told me that one of the most common problems they had to get involved in were with people from the middle east who had married Dominican girls, had kids with them - especially boys - and took them back to their country and away from their mothers. Anyway I thought that was interesting.