why are people anyways on such topics start to pray:
*** americans brought this and germans did that and the british queen is ugly and the australians have the cangoroos*** etc etc etc.
maybe my education and upbringing can not hold up with all those high educated and intelligent and since decades at home before moving to DR successful other expats and i am just a rare/unique stupid and successless spezies of that planet.
sorry Mom,
i have in no way any complain about that,
in case i can be reborn i really wanna be your son again and i want you to raise me the same way you did in this life.
what the heck it is worth where we came from, who raised us, the name of any stu.. college with 10 years prior famous college football players, who invented the drive for the fisrt moon shuttle, where Albert Einstein been born(hey, the bastard with the cool looking hair had just a IQ of 148, seriously), who gives a damn that americans claim to be the world champions in Baseball, Brazilians are the gods of soccer(yes, that's a stement from me, a german ex soccer player), my buddy Michael Schuhmacher been driving a racecar better at age of 15 than Senna ever could, who gives a damn on such stuff???
and for the topic of this thread,
what the heck is it worth at the moment an foreigner arrives on the Island???
right,
absolutely nothing!!!
because the value for the local community on this thread and for humanity at all of that Expat moving over here on the Isle is simply measured what he does/doesn't do/starts/proceeds etc etc at the moment he/she arrives on the sunny side of caribbean Island life.
there may be a working class austrian coming over, just a simple 1000$$$ in his pocket on arrival, but the kinda person that is always willing to work to manage his food and drinks and simple housing, he ma start to work with a local company as a carpenter for example, the 1K$$$ brought in of course been blown away within the first few weeks of sweet island life, for the sweeties and the parties and the sweties and the ...
no prob with him, he will work his a$$ off at a local carpenters shop and make the money to pay the rent for a lil wooden shack in Veron and his food and drinks etc, living and mingling with locals from day one on, he is at least from the beginning a contributor to the local community by my own standards, no univercity grade or ex-football team water servant grade needed.
and here may be that harvard absolvent, bringing a 200.000.-US$$$ over here in the pocket, leaving the fisrt 100K on that big Condo deal due the great connection with that good looking chic from that In-Bar at the corner and her by incident stepping by lawyer chulo, living of course from the beginning in that state of the art supermodern and friends at home jellous making appartment for cheapy 2K a month (sure the new partner chic and lawyer helped to get that incredible great rate compared to the same at home in Paris City), and of course he dine's each eve at the top dining spots of the area where great top shots like himself get served lobster and top chilenian housewine for incredibly cheap 100 bucks per person, sure the chic and lawyer and the by that time appearing 'good business friends' are also invited to add to the bill.
yes,
just a few months later i met that power brooker styled top shot at the corner bar, not that he ever been a big shot of much words, no, not with that education and upcoming in life, so he restricted the conversation to just a few words:
"can ya borrow me a 500 pesos???"
heck,
the same idiot watching down from above on so many people at the same spot during the prior months, going down and ask the fisherman for some pesos to buy the next drink??????
right,
i don't get it,
maybe i am just not educated enough to understand the point of such,
but hey, better stu and happy, eehh?
both mentioned above are well known persons by myself here in Punta Cana, the ivory coast for all those who didn't make it somewhere else,
the Carpenter i can proudly announce has today's his own Carpenter's place with a fix contract of 3 nice big resorts, he is doing very well and i enjoy to watch him once in a while when he takes the time out to party on the street, never at a fancy bar tho. we know each others but we never made friends neither, something not easy with me, i don't blame him, i am the shy gy on such. he made his way, starting with absolutely nothing in hands, no more preparation than a basic european school and the will to do.
the story came to my mind tonight because i saw him yesterday in higuey when i did some shopping at Iberia with my wifey, he did not see me, but i saw him and his wifey and their 2 kids, 1 is his and the other one he decided to be his, they looked very good to me and by the full shopping cart i would guess he is contributing a good bunch to the local community.
the Harvard power brooker coming in with the big bucks been also a real person i met here, but i did not see him or hear anything about him since a longer while, maybe it is just the stock markets who are a bit weak at the moment, a bit of a world wide crisis, todo lento pana.
what education and the big talks about great uni certificates, masters, home family names etc etc are worth compared to the good will of a Man poor but in the right way raised by mommy???
you tell me
Mike
. The Taino were making wooden furniture hundreds of years before the Spanish arrived, let alone before the more recent foreign expats arrived. Do you think that Dominican carpenters didn't have and don't have the skills to make furniture and that somehow they needed foreign influence? 