I had some extra vacation time from work and I wanted to go to a warm country to take it. I have known my friend wendy for about 2 years now from my old job. (she is dominican) I asked her if it was safe for a girl to go by herself to DR if I stayed in a resort. She told me that her aunt would probably take me in and this way I could go out with her cousin at night. SO the week before I was scheduled to leave, wendy's aunt silvia happened to be visiting her in new york. So i met her here and then a week later she picked me up in Santo Domingo with her son Joel. For the first 3 days nothing happened with Joel but we were flirting and he asked me several times if I had a boyfriend. By the 3rd day I went to the beach with him and his friend. We ended up kissing and the rest was history. I think I started crying the day before I was supose to leave and didn't stop until after I was on the plane. After I got back to the US he was all i thought about and talked about. I got really depressed, but we ended up starting to talk on msn and the phone. It is of course really frustrating for those who know about their electricity problems in DR! A lot of time I would be tired and I would turn up the volume on my computer to try and wake me up in case j oel would be able to go online. This went on for another a month and then he bought my ticket to come see him for thanksgiving weekend. It was really nice and he made sure I always was "ok" and that someone was always watching me to make sure I wasn't getting sold into white slavery or anything ;) His mom and I had a heartfelt discussion half in english half in spanish. I really love his whole family and now he just needs to meet mine. I haven't really told my family that I was planning on bringing him here yet, although they do know of him. I think i'm worried about telling them because they live in the midwest where there are no immigrants ...well compared to here. My friends are being very skeptical about this, but I know once he's here and they see me with him I am hoping they change their mind. So I'm just waiting for him to fax me his set of papers and i'm going to mail the beginning of what I hear is the long long process.
