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[quote=crazy jim wood]dr will accept us driver's license, international driver's license, etc.
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well i need it more to say i have a dr address with my picture on it (government issued photo id from dr). so i would need an actual dr license. any way to speed up the process? from what i've read it takes a while to get a cedula. was hoping someone on this forum knew someone that can help me out for some extra cash.
I just got back from Sosua today and was checking my online bank statement. It appears the ATM in Sosua was only giving me an exchange rate for approx 29.7. This is about 10% off the official rate. Do DR banks have some sort of service charge?
Thanks,
Tennessee
If a girl has a bad scedula (her address is scratched off).
What could this be ?
I meet a group of girls on the beach in Sosua . One of witch was working in a restaurant . They seemed like verry nice people . We spent the day together and one of the girls came to my room that night (at Europa). Her scedula was refused and she gave her school id.
When we went to my condo outside Pop the security didnt like her scedula but did not say why .
I would like to know what could be wrong and what could happen ?
Btw this girl never asked for any $$$ ...
John Jr
Where is it more economical to rent a car in Santo Domingo, at the airport or in Santo Domingo, where the locals go? I heard that usually things are more economical where the locals patronize.
Thanks
I am in Los Angeles. I just got 14 days vacation starting right now, today.
I want to go to DR, but I have never been there.
Any cheap flights? How cheap can I get one from Los Angeles?
I am latino, speak spanish fluently.
Need a visa?
I wish I could leave my email here.
[quote=jon32]well i need it more to say i have a dr address with my picture on it (government issued photo id from dr). so i would need an actual dr license. any way to speed up the process? from what i've read it takes a while to get a cedula. was hoping someone on this forum knew someone that can help me out for some extra cash.[/quote]
i'd try searching the posts and asking the question in the legal forum on dr1. there is a new law for expedited residency that would get you a cedula if you qualified. maybe you can just apply for a drivers license without being a legal resident. there are people on that board who could tell you.
[QUOTE=John Jr]If a girl has a bad scedula (her address is scratched off).
What could this be ?
I meet a group of girls on the beach in Sosua . One of witch was working in a restaurant . They seemed like verry nice people . We spent the day together and one of the girls came to my room that night (at Europa). Her scedula was refused and she gave her school id.
When we went to my condo outside Pop the security didnt like her scedula but did not say why .
I would like to know what could be wrong and what could happen ?
Btw this girl never asked for any $$$ ...
John Jr[/QUOTE]
If the Europa desk accepted her school ID as proof of age and valid ID I'd think that's a reasonable standard. It sounds like the cedula just looked damaged or tampered with and they rejected it on that basis. I don't know what you mean by what could be wrong or what could happen.
[QUOTE=Marc Anthony]If the Europa desk accepted her school ID as proof of age and valid ID I'd think that's a reasonable standard. It sounds like the cedula just looked damaged or tampered with and they rejected it on that basis. I don't know what you mean by what could be wrong or what could happen.[/QUOTE]
Some girls have fake ID'S . This one had no addresse on her's and no address on her school id. I dont know what could go wrong but i wouldnt want to be in a situation where the police would say sorry we cant help you we dont have her address .
what i meant was that the ordinary reason on this board for being concerned with id is to confirm that the chica is at least 18. that is most of the reason hotels like the europa check id. they also hold it in case of problems until the chica leaves as a sort of bond.
some chica's have fake id and what would be a reasonable standard for evaluating the legitimacy of an id? to me the desk at europa which handles a constant flow of those transactions, shares some liability for ****d chicas getting past, and has a lot of experience with the issue is a good standard. if it's ok with them it's ok with me because they know more about it than i do.
id can lack an address or have an old address and still be valid even in the developed world. addresses in the dr's barrios are not like the us or europe. lots of dominicans, maybe even a majority don't really have a mailing address. have a chica take you home to the barrio sometime. most houses are not on streets and don't have numbers. they have no mailboxes. even when there is a street it may not have a name. the postal system is very poor anyway. a school id establishes a better means of tracking her down. i find it hard to picture the police somehow being able to do something with an address that they couldn't do otherwise.
if for example you were somehow ripped off by a chica and you wanted the police to do something about it, your contacts and how much you were willing to pay them would have much more to do with the results than having an address on a cedula. generally it wouldn't be worth it and you'd just write it off anyway.
which brings me to another id issue i've wondered about. many chicas in the dr, especially those with some haitian ancestry but many who are full dominicanas, have no valid birth certificate so they can't get a cedula at any age. they actually have no legal age or identity. to further confuse things although some know their birthdates some don't even know exactly how old they are. they know plus or minus a couple years and could probably narrow it down to months but not much further.
when i first visited the dr, the son of the guy i was visiting cautioned me about ****d chicas. his own gf was a tall slender very dark skinned beauty who was from the west. she was very elegant looking, taller than he was, and i never questioned her age. he thought she was 19. one day her sister showed up to visit with a new baby. the sister was 16 and it turned out it was her older sister. neither of these chicas actually had a birth certificate at all and would never qualify for a real cedula. even though both were born in the dr they looked haitian and had no papers and that's that.
by now the gf is over 21 but she has no more legal proof of being 18 than she did then.
there was a big scandal a year or so ago about local bureaucrats selling birth certificates to people like this who needed them and there was a crackdown. i think good fake cedulas are quite expensive and buying the real thing in this way even more so.
I am planning my first Dr trip and looks like im staying in Sosua. I cant speak any spanish at all, you guys think I will have a tough time? I have traveled to the Philippines 4 times but never to Dr. thanks
[QUOTE=Fordtech]I am planning my first Dr trip and looks like im staying in Sosua. I cant speak any spanish at all, you guys think I will have a tough time? [/QUOTE]Fordtech:
"No worries." I too had no Spanish (except for the tourist phrases you can get off a web page). At the resorts, hotels, bars, restaurants, you'll do fine in English. Even at the beach if you're bargaining for a good price on a T-shirt or coffee mug to take home.
For meeting new firends, while Spanish may be a help, you'll still have all kinds of opportunities with just English and a smile.
It might be worth while going over basic Spanish like numbers and useful phrases. A Google search will find you a few internet sites. You don't really need a year of night-time Spanish classes before you go. I really enjoyed my stay. (You might also want to check out a few of the links on the reports of distinction thread. There will be a link there to a report of mine which is a general introduction to the town.)
E.
[url]http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1103.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Fordtech]I am planning my first Dr trip and looks like im staying in Sosua. I cant speak any spanish at all, you guys think I will have a tough time? I have traveled to the Philippines 4 times but never to Dr. thanks[/QUOTE]I find most mongers do not speak any spanish at all, it always amazes me how welll they make out. However you will find that even making a little effort will be appreciated.
I agree learn your basic numbers and general pleasantries like 'gracias', 'por favor' etc., they will carry you a long way.
Sosua/Caberete is probably the most english friendly place in the DR and has a lot of english speaking expats. You can get along fine. However you will find that any spanish you bother to learn will help. Many Dominican's don't even speak "Sesame Street" english, eg. Numbers, colors, basic words. If you want two beers it helps to know to say "Dos cervesas por favor".
Because every little thing learn/know will help communication a bit, it's a real encouraging place to be if you want to learn some Spanish.
Learn to talk money from cinco pesos to quinento, to mil pesos. Learn numbers from one to a hundred cuz you will be talking money often.