CB - you are WAY ahead of many that have come to this country to 'enjoy' the lifestyle. You are INVOLVING yourself in that lifestyle & being appreciated for it - heck, some might even RESPECT you for it
It would appear however from the above three posts that you are not picking up some of the ways things get done in the DR yet.
As I indicated in my post, face to face confrontation (like when the students/theatre group wanted to deliver a 'mock summons' to the education minister. Being perceived as a threat to the institution, this was rebuffed with force & retaliation was enforced. When the students put on their show & got their message across with humour & in fun ........ no confrontation was perceived & so it was allowed to continue. MORE was achieved via the theatre which the audience (press & even the police present) seemed to enjoy than the head on approach outside the Ministry.
You being a 'Thinking Man' & all that, I bet that if you return to this thread in a years time you would see some of the 'Ways to Get Things get Done' that some of us are trying to expound here. Stick around that committee in Jarabacoa that you have been invited into & see some of the games played there to get things achieved - Dominicans are past Masters at it
!! ~ Grahame.
(CB. Please do me a favour. Drop the abbreviations of 'Gubmint', 'Prolly' & the like. As an initial joke they were amusing & I smiled accordingly but a man of your intellect demeans himself somewhat by CONTINUING with them - YOU know so much better than to try & castrate the English/American Language!!)
