Personal Narrative: A Trip To The Dominican Republic

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Outside the walls of the Santiago International Airport, come the first signs for a foreigner that they have arrived in the beautiful Island of the Dominican Republic. As you make your way down the corridor whose big letters “Bienvenido a La Republica Dominicana” welcome tourists and ex-residents alike, the heat of the tropical Dominican weather reminds you that perhaps jeans, sneakers, and a casual shirt are not the appropriate attire for the suffocating heat you have just entered. From a personal perspective, the suffocating heat, the smell of fried foods migrating from the pans filled with oil to the airport’s shiny glass doors; and the smell of burned diesel coming from the motorcycles to whom red lights mean go rather than stop, remind me that I have officially arrived at home; perhaps your first reaction as someone who just got off an airplane is to unconsciously think of the phrase finally; finally I’m off the plane whose path of travel seemed to never change; it gets a bit frustrating when you sleep for an hour; open your eyes to the airplane’s small window, and once again, all you see is clouds, clouds, …show more content…
Have you ever heard the phrase “that sounds too good to be true”? Well, let me officially welcome you to the reality standing behind the Dominican Republic; aside from its beautiful beaches, delicious foods, and delicious fresh coconut water sold at nearly every intersection, La Republica Dominicana houses inequality and stereotypical assumptions driven by its own people; whose results are equal to a separation of social classes, and distribution of power as well as social privilege strictly based on those same classes or groups of
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