Saturday night we went to the old part of Santo Domingo called "Zona Colonial" at a very nice venue that had a Cuban live band playing.
While enjoying a "Presidente" (their national cerveza) I came to think that it is almost impossible to tell people back home how its really like over here.
Remembering how annoyed I felt when my friends that left Romania kept telling me that "its ok", "its nice"...etc, I thought that they were too lazy to share the real emotions that they had while living in a new culture, away from the confort of your safe space, away from things you are able to control at will..........
It had to be better than "ok"!
Fast forwarding back to the present, and my thoughts are different............living here, I understand that you simply cannot transmit the feeling of savoring a drink, sweating from every pore, while taking a brake from learning to dance, with lots of people around you talking, cars everywhere on the streets honking, with couples dancing, moving in a very smooth, fluent and sexy flow of steps.
Taken separately, I could say that it is polluted, the streets are full of garbage bags on the sides, most of the people are on the lazy side.......that they have heavenly looking skies, flocks of parrots flying around, exotic plants...and many more I have yet to experience.
But the feeling.....the feeling of all put together....of everything combining into a new, challenging experience, into new perspectives and ways of looking at the world.............. is not easy to describe in words.
It is better than interesting and new, it's great, it's flavorful and exotic, fresh and full of life...
........and still, the words do not describe anything from the actual experience..............
so...........its ok.
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