So, I had the "flu" a few weeks ago. Flu in quotes because it was probably the usual malady that comes when there's no cloro in the rinse water.
I was awoken to be asked if it's okay for my girlfriend's 2 Haitian female cousins with 3 children can move into the other house. My response was "Co?o, no!" and thinking that this was days in the future, I went back to sleep. I was being asked only after the fact because they were already here.
Within just a few days, they have destroyed a brand new mattress which should have lasted 10-20 years, they broke the door knobs in the house, they dirtied the walls, one young boy drew on the walls. They stole 3000 pesos that we know about. They left the water running and drained the cistern, so several apartments are without water. And, I'm sure there is more in the future to clean up the mess.
They were supposed to have a stipend of USD$200/month from a father in the USA. A loan to help them get started with a mattress was reneged on. The Colmado credit is, of course, on us, but now closed.
My favorite was the vast amount of food they cooked only to have it all spoil. Apparently, when faced with supply of food from the colmado that could have lasted weeks, giving them time to, say, look for work or a permenent place to live, it was .... I'm lost for words. I really have no rational answer to their behavior.
They say they are 'legal' with passports and visas, but when told that they will move on Monday and if they fail to move, the police will be called, it definitely got their attention.
We've joined forces with the owner of the casa to move everything from the house and return it on Monday. It could be bumpy ride, but we'll see. We'll need to pay the damages, of course.
Now with disaster looming, the father in the united states surfaces to say that he has no work and can't send any money, but is begging for help. The kicker is that they have a nice house in the Haiti and should know how to live in a house without destroying it. However, I'm well beyond the point of believing anything. I'm guessing that they might have had a shack a rusty zinc metal for a roof and siding and dirt floor that can absorb the type of abuse they can mete out. Whatever they had, I'm sure it has been long scavenged or probably sold in advance for their passage.
I can deal with a lot of things, but I just can't deal with liars. Maybe, and I mean a big fat maybe like an over filled water balloon ready to pop, I could help them if they were honest and good people from the start, but this is unacceptable and abusive. Mala gente.
PS- I don't know where to start with my girlfriend. I'm learning slowly that to live with Dominicans you have to be the Jefe, be an A-hole, and throw your weight around. I don't like being that person. I think I'd rather live alone.
I was awoken to be asked if it's okay for my girlfriend's 2 Haitian female cousins with 3 children can move into the other house. My response was "Co?o, no!" and thinking that this was days in the future, I went back to sleep. I was being asked only after the fact because they were already here.
Within just a few days, they have destroyed a brand new mattress which should have lasted 10-20 years, they broke the door knobs in the house, they dirtied the walls, one young boy drew on the walls. They stole 3000 pesos that we know about. They left the water running and drained the cistern, so several apartments are without water. And, I'm sure there is more in the future to clean up the mess.
They were supposed to have a stipend of USD$200/month from a father in the USA. A loan to help them get started with a mattress was reneged on. The Colmado credit is, of course, on us, but now closed.
My favorite was the vast amount of food they cooked only to have it all spoil. Apparently, when faced with supply of food from the colmado that could have lasted weeks, giving them time to, say, look for work or a permenent place to live, it was .... I'm lost for words. I really have no rational answer to their behavior.
They say they are 'legal' with passports and visas, but when told that they will move on Monday and if they fail to move, the police will be called, it definitely got their attention.
We've joined forces with the owner of the casa to move everything from the house and return it on Monday. It could be bumpy ride, but we'll see. We'll need to pay the damages, of course.
Now with disaster looming, the father in the united states surfaces to say that he has no work and can't send any money, but is begging for help. The kicker is that they have a nice house in the Haiti and should know how to live in a house without destroying it. However, I'm well beyond the point of believing anything. I'm guessing that they might have had a shack a rusty zinc metal for a roof and siding and dirt floor that can absorb the type of abuse they can mete out. Whatever they had, I'm sure it has been long scavenged or probably sold in advance for their passage.
I can deal with a lot of things, but I just can't deal with liars. Maybe, and I mean a big fat maybe like an over filled water balloon ready to pop, I could help them if they were honest and good people from the start, but this is unacceptable and abusive. Mala gente.
PS- I don't know where to start with my girlfriend. I'm learning slowly that to live with Dominicans you have to be the Jefe, be an A-hole, and throw your weight around. I don't like being that person. I think I'd rather live alone.
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