Santo Domingo Stories


Happy New Year

So the year of 2009 is about 12 days old. I have decided that this year is the year that I will rock out in Peace Corps Dominican Republic. This will also be the last year I'll be in the Peace Corps. So I have a lot of work planned out for me. I hope that I can start a new teens group and working with mothers to get them to better their nutrition an...


Back from Santo Domingo

Well, we arrived safe and sound yesterday late afternoon from Santo Domingo. We stayed in the Colonial section of Santo Domingo. "Zona Colonial" is the First Settlement made by Columbus and The Spanish Explorers In the New world. His son, Diego, became Governor of the area, I believe. The Spanish used this Settlement as the first point of influence in t...


Santo Domingo

Hello everyone. I was in Santo Domingo for the weekend. It was really hot and very interesting. It was the first city in the Americas. I saw buildings built 500 years ago, it was pretty amazing. I also learned that pretty much the rest of the world says there are only 5-6 continents. Most other places consider North and South America one continent, Ame...


Big City, caribbean taste

Santo Domingo has this Caribbean-colonial taste, and it's is interesting to get a feel of it while walking in the streets of the city. I saw the ugly Columbus memorial in the distance, who deserved nothing better, if you ask me, a deserted aquarium where you sometimes almost need a flashlight to see what was inside the tanks. I had a chat with French h...