Hotel La Danae
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Chapter One - Santo Domingo - Day 1
... customs and immigration is painless, with the exception of the US$ 10.00 tourist entry fee. The inspector looks at Miryam, Cecilia and Margarita quizzically.
"Why aren't you using your Peruvian passports?"
The three look a little nervous. Is using their U.S. passports going to be a problem? Has the DR got something against Peruvians?
"Peruvians don't need to pay the US$ 10.00 entry fee." They are ...
All at once
We arrived in Santo Domingo late Sunday night. The flight was uneventful; we passed through customs, collected our baggage, and headed for the car rental. We arrived at the car rental and spoke with the man behind the desk for at least half an hour upon discovering that the rental would be too expensive and didn't make sense for us. Not to worry plan b was already in the works, as we walked into the airport lobby Carlos was greeted by hugs and we were quickly rushed to a ...
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... to HOMS, he driver insisted on causing a traffic jam by trying to go the wrong way... Oh, DR! We eventually pulled up to the Emergency room department dropoff. Obviously, we were not supposed to be there... I can't imagine what the triage nurses and security guards were thinking when up comes this guagua and out pop seven gringas! We meg up with Eduardo and his classmate Raymundo, who is an internal med resident this year. He showed us the ER, the Peds ER, and then took us ...
Work can begin!
... until they ran out and not everyone had one. The people left and the kids were told more presents would come tomorrow. I felt so sad seeing the kids I knew from Guazumita , that had written letters, without presents. The teachers were telling the kids that wrote letters how good they were because they knew hwo to write and that's why they got presents, even though not all of them did and some of the kids that didn't write letters ...
Vacation!!
... cleaner it is in the DR, while poverty is obviously present people appear to take care of things.
The last couple of days Elisabeth, Eric, Libby and I have been wandering around, enjoying meals, going grocery shopping and sleeping in a comfortably air conditioned room. The weather has been more rainy than not, but not bad enough to keep us indoors. We´re staying right in the center of the Colonial Zone and ...
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