"This is what it means to say Santo Domingo"

     Wherever it is that you're located there will always be loud music playing. When you're trying to call the cops to crash the party next door that's keeping you awake at night, only to realize the entire station is already at the party, getting their groove on. Where people still sell fruits in carts and go door to door asking you do buy some. Where you could go to any restaurant, try anything on the menu and you'll know it's going to be good. Where tostones are a side dish to every meal, and platano con salami is like milk and cereal for breakfast. Where you'll be extremely lucky if you have air conditioning, better yet electricity, at night. The place where the sun burns like no other country, all year long. The place where every night you'll see a group of people playing dominoes. Where you'll know they're playing dominoes as they slam them down for the whole neighborhood to hear. This is what it means to say Santo Domingo.

-Adrian Reyes