Just moved to the DR, homesick!
Last activity 19 October 2012 by lilymartel
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Hi I am Theresa I just moved here from Texas to the DR with my husband & 2 kids. My husband is Dominican and is here because he owns a business here in La Romana. Although this is not my first time in the DR, it is very different then visiting. I must add that this is our 2nd attempt to live in the DR. The first was last summer, we lived in Santo Domingo for 3 1/2 months, my husband was not sure he made the right choice of uprooting us from everything we know and putting us in a foreign city. Honestly, Santo Domingo was not all that bad, a little fast paced and very busy but after all it is a city... I liked the fact that my children attended an English speaking school, down fall to that is they were not learning the native tongue. The other problem for my husband is La Romana is about an hour to an hour in a half drive from where his office is. Anyways we moved back to the states without even a warning, We went to visit for 7 days (ONE WEEK), I packed only enough for that amount of time, my husband announces before the week ended we are staying, he had me enroll the kids in school etc etc.... we purchased a house, but I had a gut feeling this was not going to last so the house never felt like "HOME". We stayed there like 8months, and I got a call from my hubby that we are moving back in 2wks.... So we sold the house, packed everything and now I am HERE! La Romana is very different from SD, and on one hand thats a good thing but on the other its not!! The number one complaint is that I do not speak much of the language, nor do my children and they attend a school that is in all Spanish! My son is doing well, but my little girl is having a hard time. I worry if she is actually learning anything, not in terms of Spanish (we have a tutor for Spanish) but the material. I have to translate all her work for her, Google translate is my best friend 
I know she will do fine, and will pick it up; I am just being a concerned mommy. Aside from that there are a few things that drive me crazy here, they are things that are tolerable. I just need to learn the language and make some friends!
Hello Theresa.
Welcome to Expat.com! 
Thank you very much for sharing your experience with us.
Aurélie
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