We met 1986 in Santo Domingo where I was stationed for a while where she was studying at the UASD university. After 2 years we married and left for The Netherlands. She comes from a very poor, decent and up right family in Rio San Juan and her family had many “questions “ about our relationship but after a while they accepted the Gringo.
My wife started almost immediately at the University of Amsterdam in order to learn Dutch and after 1 ? year she completed her Dutch language skills and was accepted as the first Dominican at this University. After 5 years she graduated cum laude in “Lengua y Literatura Hispanica”. Hereafter, the University contracted her right away as Spanish teacher. In the meanwhile she studied to be official translator and interpreter Spanish- Dutch and vice versa.
We moved back to the DR in the late nineties where she almost immediately started studying Dominican laws at one of the universities in Santiago, in the meanwhile being professor at another University in order to be well prepared to defend “her Gringo” if necessary, she said. So, now she is a lawyer as well.
I am 13 years older and we live still happily “fighting and arguing” as so many normal couples do, together. ( generally, she wins which sometimes ****es me off ).
In other words, although we all know the daily truth about the difficulties living in the DR for Dominicans as well as foreigners and the many very different cultural ways, never ever generalize an entire people of any nation.
My wife started almost immediately at the University of Amsterdam in order to learn Dutch and after 1 ? year she completed her Dutch language skills and was accepted as the first Dominican at this University. After 5 years she graduated cum laude in “Lengua y Literatura Hispanica”. Hereafter, the University contracted her right away as Spanish teacher. In the meanwhile she studied to be official translator and interpreter Spanish- Dutch and vice versa.
We moved back to the DR in the late nineties where she almost immediately started studying Dominican laws at one of the universities in Santiago, in the meanwhile being professor at another University in order to be well prepared to defend “her Gringo” if necessary, she said. So, now she is a lawyer as well.
I am 13 years older and we live still happily “fighting and arguing” as so many normal couples do, together. ( generally, she wins which sometimes ****es me off ).
In other words, although we all know the daily truth about the difficulties living in the DR for Dominicans as well as foreigners and the many very different cultural ways, never ever generalize an entire people of any nation.
