Hola Everyone,
I am just spent the last hour reading all the many comments and insights into living in the DR and knew I needed to post a few questions of my own. I just came back from 2 weeks in Sosua. I was not at a hotel but instead at my father's recently purchased condo, so I had no choice but to immerse myself into the town's way of life. meaning, learning spanish asap, buying groceries at the Playero, taking motortaxi's , cramming into the publico's to Cabarete etc... obviously there was more to it than that...
Anyway, I went there bombarded with warnings about being safe and not getting taken advantage of etc. Wel, I have to say Sosua and cabarete far far exceeded my expectations. I decided to take a nice beach vacation and instead had an experience of a lifetime. The locals treated me with the utmost respect and graciousness and although, yes, some were trying to get me to buy things, they soon left me alone. I made very good friends with some local waiters and honestly felt at home after only a week. I am 29 female, by the way. By the second week, I was having meals at their homes with their families who shared these tiny little houses in the hills ( we would think of slums back home, but were actually immacuatley clean and organized). I
Too make a long story short, I am already making plans to go back. I am a freelance writer with no real commitments or responsibilities here in Toronto Canada and so crave the relaxed nonmaterialistic attitude and environmemnt of those areas. I am also a waitress and was thinking I could do that to pay the bills while I write in my free time. I am however, not too sure of how a canadian comes to work in the DR abnd what Visa or papers are needed. I am in the process of contacting the consolate but would love any info all you bright, intelligent, and everso friendly people could grace me with. I look forward to your replies.
Buenos Dias y gracias
I am just spent the last hour reading all the many comments and insights into living in the DR and knew I needed to post a few questions of my own. I just came back from 2 weeks in Sosua. I was not at a hotel but instead at my father's recently purchased condo, so I had no choice but to immerse myself into the town's way of life. meaning, learning spanish asap, buying groceries at the Playero, taking motortaxi's , cramming into the publico's to Cabarete etc... obviously there was more to it than that...
Anyway, I went there bombarded with warnings about being safe and not getting taken advantage of etc. Wel, I have to say Sosua and cabarete far far exceeded my expectations. I decided to take a nice beach vacation and instead had an experience of a lifetime. The locals treated me with the utmost respect and graciousness and although, yes, some were trying to get me to buy things, they soon left me alone. I made very good friends with some local waiters and honestly felt at home after only a week. I am 29 female, by the way. By the second week, I was having meals at their homes with their families who shared these tiny little houses in the hills ( we would think of slums back home, but were actually immacuatley clean and organized). I
Too make a long story short, I am already making plans to go back. I am a freelance writer with no real commitments or responsibilities here in Toronto Canada and so crave the relaxed nonmaterialistic attitude and environmemnt of those areas. I am also a waitress and was thinking I could do that to pay the bills while I write in my free time. I am however, not too sure of how a canadian comes to work in the DR abnd what Visa or papers are needed. I am in the process of contacting the consolate but would love any info all you bright, intelligent, and everso friendly people could grace me with. I look forward to your replies.
Buenos Dias y gracias