Better safe than sorry...

[Musicqueen]

Margaret...you seem to know a lot of details on how the sankies operate...are you speaking from your own experience?

To the OP...NOTHING you do or say will TEACH your sister anything...until she experiences a broken heart on her own...she will NOT learn...

Go and have fun...and leave the rest in God's hands....or whomever you believe in...

Good luck!!!

MQ

[marliejaneca]

Originally Posted by margaret

You'll have a great time, the staff are very friendly but keep in mind they get into relationships with girls and women who are open to their advances and who throw themselves at them. Keep that in mind, and when one tells you that he wants you and that he loves you after three nights of filling your wine glass at dinner, you know there's something strange going on because he doesn't know you and you don't know him.

They're not THAT slick, but if your sister isn't used to ANY attention she might fail for the compliments. It's very good for your ego when all of sudden 2 or 3 guys are interested and flatter you. Just keep in mind the next bus will bring some new girls on vacation just as the last bus carried away the sad to be leaving ones.

Your sister needs to be aware that just because the alcohol is free, and not $5-6 a drink doesn't mean you have to drink $30 worth and it doesn't mean you have to drink from 10 am until the disco closes. Set a limit and don't exceed it, because booze will weaken your willpower. If you go to the disco together, leave together. There is safety in numbers and with the buddy system. You can fool around in public and it won't go anywhere, but don't go for a walk on the beach alone with him. Because once he gets you alone and in the sand, YOU'RE TOAST and he gets to tell his friends about you. Don't go there unless you're prepared to protect yourself.

"Save yourself for someone special." that's what my boozing, marijuana smoking brother told me. Did I listen, yes.

Very good post, Margaret! I bolded some of the key points, but the main one is the alcohol - you hit the nail on the head with that one!

Marlie

P.S. Ladybird - calm down woman!

I far as know from my reading, the term Chocolate Friends refer to the animation team, no necessarily dominican people in general, or I would'nt have used it...

Reread what he/she wrote - also reread her/his first post and realize the spelling and grammatical errors, which are abundant, and then give him/her the benefit of the doubt that she wrote the last sentence wrong!!!!!!!!!!! Especially since she wrote this above in the same post!!!!!!

So quick to judge, when it could be just a typo or someone not having English as a first language. Ask politely to the person that posted if she/he had possibly made an error before jumping down one's throat!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW - is all I have to say.

Lesson 1 - always be aware of the posters writing skills (or lack of) and then put your intelligent mind to work and decipher if that person has problems communicating through writing or language barrier.

I know one moderator ( no name mentioned) that read a post with a typo that really threw her for a loop - once mentioned that it was possibly a typo (which it turned out to be) the situation calmed down and we all had a good laugh!!!

Marlie ( all vented out!!! LOL)

[Janin]

Originally Posted by Musicqueen

...Go and have fun...and leave the rest in God's hands....or whomever you believe in...

The OP's sister belongs to an age bracket of which girls fall for sankies eagle spread.
Then to call her 'novio' a god and believe in him as one is only a small step.
As for the sankie, he thinks of himself as a god anyway...

Janin

[Eddy]

Originally Posted by Janin

The OP's sister belongs to an age bracket of which girls fall for sankies eagle spread.
Then to call her 'novio' a god and believe in him as one is only a small step.
As for the sankie, he thinks of himself as a god anyway...

Janin

Not all girls are sluts. If they get seduced by a sankie, you can be assured that they've given it out many times at home. They want to try that "chocolate". LOL

[AZB]

Now the foreign girls have stooped even lower. They are dating construction worker type haitians in santiago. Yes, I have seen good looking young white foreign girls, with construction worker type haitians (mal vestidos). These girls don't want any educated, classy black dominicans, now they are getting down and dirty with the illegal haitians. Then whats funny is that the same girls call the better class dominicans snobby because they won't even look at them. Girls, get a clue.
AZB

[aiquinox]

Ooops! Sorry for that last sentence in the first post... Marlie got it right, I didn't mean anything offensive at all... anyway, it's sorted out...

Thanks for the generally good advices... I'm not freaked enough to miss all the fun...I'm a caring and loving sister, but I can't live my sister's life... as much as I would hate to see her hurts, I can't do much more...

Now, I'm a little bit of topic, but I was surprised to read some harsh words... can some people tell me if the "hotel workers are scums" thought is widely spread and accepted in RD, or is it a radical line shared by few?

Jasmine

[margaret]

Originally Posted by aiquinox

Ooops! Sorry for that last sentence in the first post... Marlie got it right, I didn't mean anything offensive at all... anyway, it's sorted out...

Thanks for the generally good advices... I'm not freaked enough to miss all the fun...I'm a caring and loving sister, but I can't live my sister's life... as much as I would hate to see her hurts, I can't do much more...

Now, I'm a little bit of topic, but I was surprised to read some harsh words... can some people tell me if the "hotel workers are scums" thought is widely spread and accepted in RD, or is it a radical line shared by few?

Jasmine

Hi Jasmine,

Welcome to DR1. We used to welcome new members but it seems we just rush to attack people these days. Must bring some satisfaction and sense of superiority to our empty lives. Before we find out anything about a poster we'll just assume they're trash.

No, hotel workers are not scum! Everyday people who work in the resort will greet you and smile and serve you from the cooks, waiters, maids, bartenders and animation staff, you'll never meet so many friendly people in one or two as you will in six months in your neighborhood. I met Vivienne who was four months pregnant and serving in the restaurant, always smiling and very sweet. Saw her ride off on a motoconcho with her husband one day. Ramona a bartender who said "yes when you have a good friend you have to take care of them." "Of course, no one is perfect only God, but if you have one or two good friends you're VERY lucky." I met Alexis who helped me with the cell phone and told me one day that he was so excited to be graduating from highschool and that he planned to study hotel management next and English. Javier who drove off to Santiago to visit his brother who was homeless after Tropical Storm Olga hit, he turned right around and came back to work. I met a Dominican engineer who works in Santo Domingo and we sat drinking coffee and talking about our lives. I talked with Germans, Russians, Belgians, and Dominicans on vacation from other cities. And yes I even got to practice my French with Haitians who sold paintings, one who was repairing some mortar in a wall. And I like to learn the names of people, including my bartenders in Toronto, because that's the way my mother raised me.

Enjoy your trip and look out for your sister. Learn how to dance merengue and bachata! Go to Youtube and search for those dances and reggaeton! ENJOY!

[Ringo]

Nice to see yet another "SANKIE"

[margaret]

Originally Posted by Ringo

Nice to see yet another "SANKIE"

Huh? C'est what?

[Ringo]

finish fromabove post... OK. I am sooooooo informed concerning this topic... again and again and again. Must be the largest, biggist, most written about...with the most space taken up in the whole DR1 history and in anywhere on earth. Is this a "chic" thing???? You cann't get it??

And let's face it... Thems that ask have no idea how to do the "search" or even take time to look in the current posts in the current forums... So.. What does that tell ya???? DAAAAAA.

ROBERT.... CANN'T YOU STOP THIS. They wanna get laid... your sister, brother, mother, father... WHO THE HECK REALLY CARES?

IF so many are so stupid and those that respond so.... "this is my stor..... (OK, I read about 1/3 just to read WHO answers.) OH, get a life of your own.

Pleeeze stop... pleeze.... NO regards, Ringo (Ha...ha...ha)