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Background: Explored and claimed by Columbus on his first voyage in 1492, the island of Hispaniola became a springboard for Spanish conquest of the Caribbean and the American mainland. In 1697, Spain recognized French dominion over the western third of the island, which in 1804 became Haiti. The remainder of the island, by then known as Santo Domingo, sought to gain its own independence in 1821, but was conquered and ruled by the Haitians for 22 years; it finally attained independence as the Dominican Republic in 1844. In 1861, the Dominicans voluntarily returned to the Spanish Empire, but two years later they launched a war that restored independence in 1865. A legacy of unsettled, mostly non-representative, rule for much of its subsequent history was brought to an end in 1966 when Joaquin BALAGUER became president. He maintained a tight grip on power for most of the next 30 years when international reaction to flawed elections forced him to curtail his term in 1996. Since then, regular competitive elections have been held in which opposition candidates have won the presidency. The Dominican economy has had one of the fastest growth rates in the hemisphere over the past decade.



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here i am, about 3 weeks into my semester in the dominican republic and finally trying to make a blog. let's see how it goes... things have been great here so far. my host family is fabulous, i've done a little bit of traveling, and i'm starting to know my way around the city. some things i have experienced so far: lots of hissing from locals, being woken up by stray roosters every morning, a peanut butter- ham-and-cheese sandwich, lots of rice, a couple of beautiful beaches, the cave of wonders, and the vacation houses of shakira and julio iglesias. score! [View Full Entry]

sarah j - Sarah Jones | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 13th 2007 | 60 Views | [diary=201901]


Ok, sorry i haven't written for a while but i've been really buisy and the internet and power suck here right now. Anyways, a lot has happened since i last spoke, so i'll go cronalogically: Scool: I had my first religion class, and the homework was: write three reasons why you tink jesus is devine. So I raised my hand and said: what if you think he was just a good person?"Everyone looked at me like they were going to burn me on as a witch. Then they started questioning me, Inquisition two. And when it caem out that I don't [View Full Entry]

Elenor - Allegra Fisher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 9th 2007 | 78 Views | [diary=200409]


so here i am, on my feet again and feeling pretty well. I went to school on friday and once again had a good time, although I am so far only doing stuff i already know, i think it's gonna get harder though. As an answer to jaya's question, theopetical PE is basically anatomy and study of phisical Education on how it helps.... Alrigth, here's the blog: I'm starting to find he beauty in Barrio life. The days are quiet here, the boys gathered at a house, playing domino, the girls sometimes seeing each other, but generally hanging low. Nothing moves [View Full Entry]

Elenor - Allegra Fisher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 1st 2007 | 141 Views | [diary=198032]


How can you eat a banana? Let me count te ways... you can boil it and mash it like potatoes you can fry it and serve with salami you can poil it insoup and eat it like bread you can sautee it and eat it for dessert or you can just eat it fresh, the best of all. So after dinner, a dish called frio y salami, fried platano and fried salami (an injenious solution to s dry piece of something....), when the dishes were cleared away, my hostdad and I had a long discussion about philosophy and religion...in spanish!!!! I [View Full Entry]

Elenor - Allegra Fisher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 29th 2007 | 69 Views | [diary=197005]


however sickly the color of the uniform is, somehow, it doesn't detter from the school. There have been horror stories written about the first day of school in your host countries, I am glad to saythat I do not need to recount one of those. I got there, went to the principal, she took me to my classroom (we stry there all day) and left me in the care of my mates. 14 girls, two lonely boys, one of whom, Roberto, is being kind enough to translate when i don''t understand something and to check i'm doing things right. There is [View Full Entry]

Elenor - Allegra Fisher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 29th 2007 | 94 Views | [diary=197245]


ok, so i'm officially a DOminican Schoolgirl....ittook long enough. First AFS had signed me up at a school a LOOOOOOOOONG way away, we had to change that, then they signed me up at a school called a Reforma, no way misters, so we finanlly took the matter in our own hands and signed up at Collegio Evangelistico DR. Hoffman, a nice school with non pink uniforms (and not alice in wonderland ether). the skirt is brown, the shirt is some sickly mixture of beige and white and pink...wierd and the coloring is gonna look very bad on me, but wtf? I'm [View Full Entry]

Elenor - Allegra Fisher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 29th 2007 | 112 Views | [diary=196966]


well, i'm here, safe, sound and HOT!!!!! I swear it's hotter hear at night then it is in Mendo at the height of the warm season (not summer ) so I arrive and th first thing that happens aout of the airport, everyone pulls out cigarets and starts smoking, then we pile in to a car (four in the back seat) and we're off, blaring mussic, windows open, showting in spanish and singing along! And of course, they ask me, tired, hungry, dirty me, if I want to go out....they corrected themselves: you are going out! so off to the house [View Full Entry]

Elenor - Allegra Fisher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 27th 2007 | 78 Views | [diary=196387]


The Dominican Republic [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 1st 2008 | 84 Views | [diary=232037]


De afgelopen tijd ben ik voornamelijk in de hoofdstad geweest voor het onderzoek dat ik samen doe met een consultant van IDEAC. Er is weer te veel gebeurd om op te noemen! Ik ben verhuisd, heb kennis gemaakt met mijn nieuwe buren, heb mijn eerste onderzoek afgemaakt en opgestuurd en niet te vergeten, ik ben getrouwd. Ik moest wel met Alexis trouwen om met hem samen te kunnen wonen. Ik heb ook kikkers uit huis gejaagd, een week zonder stromend water overleefd (dank aan buren die hier beter op voorbereid waren), ben gestoken door twee zee-egels en heb een kleine voedselvergiftiging [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 5th 2007 | 193 Views | [diary=185257]

Festival de café Polo
Festival de café Polo
Festival de café Polo

Y’all, Logan and Adrienne (yes, I know, I am addicted to tag along with them) have hosted me in Santo Domingo in island nation of Dominican Republic. Logan’s old roommate Eliel decided to marry a girl from Florida, and although both of them live in Atlanta, they wanted to conduct a wedding in Eliel’s hometown of Santo Domingo. Onto the second day of our trip, one of the girls from the wedding party got her necklace snatched by two guys in a motorcycle, so it might be a good thing for the rest of us, as we are very cautious for [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 8th 2007 | 111 Views | [diary=183494]

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